Wednesday October 12th 2011

09:00-10:00
Webinar
The public « app store »

Nicolas Conso, chief officer « Innovation », direction générale de la Modernisation de l’Etat
Philippe Bournhonesque, Software Strategy, IBM France

Event recording

10:00-11:00
Webinar

Open Data

Séverin Naudet, Chief executive « Etalab », French Prime minister office

Event recording

14:30-17:30
Hearing of the candidates

E-democracy awards

- The e-democracy awards jury 2011
- The e-democracy awards The 9 finalists

Issy-les-Moulineaux City Hall

18:00-19:30
Plenary

Democracy on line

From the Arab Spring revolutions to the public debate, Web stood out as the most successful direct democracy tool. Survey of its most beautiful success.

Introduced by André Santini, former french minister, founder of the World e.gov Forum, MP, mayor of Issy-les-Moulineaux

Phil Noble, PoliticsOnline founder
Micah Sifry, Personal Democracy Forum co-founder
Benoit Thieulin, La Netscouade founder
Arnaud Dassier, l’Enchanteur des nouveaux médias founder
Hugo Passarello Luna, Argentinaelections.com Director

Campus of Microsoft France

Thursday October 13th 2011

13:30-16:00
Webinar
e-government : « World Tour Innovation »

A world tour of the best agile government practices, fully in TelePresence, from India, to Brazil through Europe : how IT have made some public services more efficient. Read more

Moderated by Anne Lange, Internet Business Solutions Group Director, Global Public Sector, Cisco

Agenda (Paris Time)
13:30-14:00
Jaime Quesado (Lisbon)  – General Manager of the Innovation and Knowledge Society of Portugal
Presentation title: E-gov: a new contract of trust     
14:00-14:30
Christian Rupp (Vienna) – Federal Executive Secretary E-Government Austria   & Spokesperson Federal Platform Digital Austria
Presentation title: Latest innovations in digital public services    
14:30-15:00
Prakash Kumar (New-Delhi) – Director Public Sector, Internet Business Solutions Group Cisco Systems, Inc.
Presentation title: Addressing public services fundamental needs  
15:00-15:30
Bernard Benhamou (Paris) – Managing Director of the Interministerial Delegation on Internet usage in France
Presentation title: Next generation of mobile services to citizens     
15:30-16:00
Vincent Ducrey (Rio) – New Media Advisor to the French Minister of National Education, Youth and Voluntary
Presentation title: Serving Gen Y users, a case study about jeunes.gouv.fr

World e.gov Forum awards ceremony

Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (invited)

17:30-18:30

Conference
How to improve the digital relation to the public ?

Franck Riester, member of the parliament, France

18:30

Awards ceremony

On October 12th and 13th, 2011, World e.gov forum organized 48 hours of on-line conferences, for a real world tour from the best e.government experts and initiatives.

World e.gov forum is an exclusive space for the public decision-makers, the elected representatives, the private actors and the members of the non trading society who wish to exchange on the future of the e-administration and some e-democracy.
Finally, the prize-winners of the e-democracy and e-administration trophies were revealed during a ceremony which took place on October 13th to the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs.

• Program

“This is the first time a constitution is being drafted basically on the Internet,” said Thorvaldur Gylfason, member of Iceland’s constitutional council to the Guardian. Iceland’s constitution was written when it gained its independance from Danemark in 1944. It is based on the Danish constitution, with a few minor adjustments.

The constitutional council is posting draft clauses of the document every week on its website, that the citizens can comment underneath. The public can also join the discussion on the council’s Facebook page.

The collaboration goes further: the council also has a Twitter account, a YouTube page where interviews with its members are regularly posted, and a Flickr account containing pictures of the 25 members at work. The council opens its meetings to the public and streams them live on to the website and Facebook page.

The draft is due to be ready at the end of July. A referendum will then be organised without any changes imposed by parliament. This new constitution will intend to reorganise the Icelandic intsitutions, to prevent a repeat of the financial crisis.

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In a press statement (download in PDF), the French Prime Minister said (machine translation):

“The Council of modernization of public policy, chaired by the President of the Republic, a Acts 30 June 2010 establishing a single portal for the reuse of public information” Etalab (data.gouv.fr).

Prime Minister Francois Fillon told Severin NAUDET the direction of Etalab.Under the authority of the Prime Minister at the Secretariat General ofGovernment, Etalab coordinates the activities of government departments andprovides administrative support to public institutions to facilitate the widest possible reuse of their information public. The single portal is part of the policy of simplification of public services online. Facilitate access and use of public information in the interests of transparency is a priority policy of modernization of the state. Etalab will freely available raw data into a usable format and develop new online services for the benefit of citizens, from some of these data. Thereuse of such information offers great opportunities to the community ofdevelopers who can use them to propose innovative application services. ”

Further information:

• the original news article on epsiplatform.eu

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Steve Ressler is the Founder and President of GovLoop.com, the “Facebook for Government” which connects and fosters collaboration among over 26,500 members of the government community. On GovLoop, members use social media such as blogs, videos, and forums to discuss best practices and share ideas on improving government. Mr. Ressler has won the 2010 GovTech Top 25 Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers Award, the 2007 and 2009 Federal 100 Award, the 2009 AFCEA Bethesda Social Media Award, and was a finalist for the 2009 ACT/IAC Intergovernmental Solutions Award.

Content of the webinar:

The webinar will consist of a 20-minute presentation by Steve Ressler, followed by a question and answer time with the participants. Steve will tackle the following points:

• How to Build & Grow an Awesome Online Community – Lessons from the GovLoop Story
• How GovLoop grew from 0 to 40,000 members in last then 2 years
• The best practices from the govloop community on innovation in government

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GIS software developer Esri has posted a map of Egypt that follows the “social conversation” as the country’s historic political revolution continues. Tweets, YouTube videos and Flickr photos are plotted on the map in near real time. The map overlay includes satellite imagery, street maps and topographic maps.

Citzens flooded the streets of Cairo on Friday to celebrate after word spread that Hosni Mubarak, the country’s president since 1981, would resign and cede power to the country’s military. Anti-government protests have rocked the nation for weeks. To view the map, click on the image below.

Further information:
-the original article on govtech.com

Home Office ministers say it is unprecedented for such interactive crime maps to be published for an entire country and that it has been done without compromising the privacy of victims and witnesses, or having a negative effect on house prices.

The maps, which are accessible by typing a postcode into thewww.police.uk website, also provide contact details for neighbourhood policing teams, information about forthcoming beat meetings, CCTV footage of local incidents, and in some cases even a Twitter feed from beat officers.

Quarterly crime statistics have been available online at ward or local police division level for some time, but the £300,000 project launched today gives information about different types of crime and, for the first time, incidents of antisocial behaviour down to street level.

The maps give street-by-street results for six types of offence, including burglary, robbery, vehicle crime, violence, and antisocial behaviour. Sexual offences are included in “other crime” to avoid revealing the location of victims.

Six “trailblazing” forces are to go further in developing crime maps.

• Investment of up to £10 million in cloud computing, shared IT infrastructure, support to deliver virtual servers, storage and data management applications.
• Investment of up to £2.5 million to establish cloud computing and shared services in central administration functions to support learning, teaching, and research.

David Sweeney, HEFCE Director for Research, Innovation and Skills, said that at a time of pressure on university resources, it is critical that technology is used in a collaborative and cost-effective way, to deliver services that will benefit the sector. “Cloud computing has the potential to do this in ways which will serve the academic community leading to improvements in research, teaching and administration,” he said.

A core virtual server infrastructure (a ‘cloud’) will be set up to offer discounted data management and storage services to HE institutions. It will be deployed in data centres starting with a pilot at Eduserv, which will work in collaboration with the Digital Curation Centre. Up to £5.1 million will be invested in this aspect of the shared IT infrastructure programme, including funding to develop a sustainable financial model for the brokerage beyond the life of the UMF.

Up to a further £4.9 million will be invested in developing HE research data management applications to be deployed in the shared services environment.

Further information:

• the press release on HEFCE.co.uk
• the news article on futuregov.asia
• other cases of universities using cloud computing

Medical advice via email is increasing, according to the data shown in the report of the IT and Telecom Agency, launched on 20 January 2011. More specifically, in 2006 1.2 % of all medical consultations were made via email, while in 2009 the number had risen to 4.4 %. Statistics for 2010 have not yet been calculated.

It is proved helpful to have doctor’s assessment, without having to move to a clinic for issues such as inflamed sinuses or high temperature.

On a similar note, the proportion of telephone consultations dropped from 42.8 % in 2006 to 39.1 % in 2009.

While the use of email is slowly increasing, the use of the Sundhed.dk portal has remained stagnant; according to the report, the number of over 250 000 unique users per month on average in 2008 has been decreased.

Sundhed.dk, the Danish National eHealth Portal is citizens’ entry to health information and to information on citizen’s medical records or blood samples.

In addition to the public health services, Danes are also satisfied with digital means in general. Figures from the governmental organisation ‘Statistics Denmark‘ demonstrate that more than a half of the population now uses the Internet themselves to find information about diseases and health.

Further information:

• Original News Article – Version 2 (in Danish)
• Digital Society 2010 Report (in Danish)
• Sundhed.dk