Comments (0) After the protocol aurresku dance, the Honorary Chairman of ELANET, Javier Ossandon, opens the eighth edition of EISCO and gives the floor to Idoia Mendia, Regional Minister of Justice and Public Administration of the Basque Government, Jokin Bildarratz, President of EUDELand Frédéric Vallier, Secretary General of CEMR.
Recordings of the session Exploiting the information potential and ensuring the security and privacy of individuals, divided into three sections.
Chairperson: Mr. Iñaki Vicuña, Director of the Basque Agency for Data Protection
Part 1
http://www.vimeo.com/12378684Part 2
http://www.vimeo.com/12378637A two-part recording of the session entitled Interoperability solutions for public administrations (ISA)
Chair: Francisco García Morán, Director General of DG Informatics, European Commission.
Presentation of the ISA programme. Mr. Karel De Vriendt, Head of the ISA programme unit, DG Informatics, European Commission.
Sharing, re-using and collaborating: Mr. Szabolcs Szekacs, Project leader of the ISA programme, DG Informatics, European Commission.
Part 1
http://www.vimeo.com/12241656Part 2
http://www.vimeo.com/12238113Video of the best practices presentation session on Empowering citizens, divided into three parts.
Chair: Ms. Irina Zalisova, managing director Directora of EPMA, Vysocina (Czech Republic)
Virtual mobile office counters. Mr. Geert-Jan ten Brink and Mr. Lars de Haan, AA en Hunze (Holland)
EUROCITIES’ broad band strategy Mr. D. Van Keulen, representative of this initiative
Part 1
http://www.vimeo.com/12212225Part 2
http://www.vimeo.com/12211546Part 3
http://www.vimeo.com/12208297Carlos Totorika and Anabel Landa, mayors of Ermua and Berango, give their impressions of the Conference after the closing ceremony.
After the Conference’s opening day, participants attended a gala dinner at the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum.
Three parts video of EISCO 2010 Closing Ceremony, moderated by Rosi Somerville, (ELANET-CP, IDEA, United Kingdom).
In the first part, Íñigo Gómez (EUDEL) presents the EISCO 2010 Declaration draft, wich will be open to citizenship commentary in this blog.
Jerónimo Silva (Portugal) provides some details about the next EISCO edition, in Guimarães.
Mar Zabala summing up the congress activities, after three days of debate, and pointing out the challenge accomplished by EUDEL organizating this event.
The president and director general of the Association of Basque Municipalities (EUDEL), Jokin Bilaratz and Mar Zabala, confirm the closure of the eighth edition of the European Information Society Conference (EISCO 2010).
Bildaratz evaluates the work carried out by the EUDEL team in the conference organization and encourages the holding of future events, which will take place in Euskadi.
Zabala points out the international character of EISCO 2010 and states the importance that town councils are to play in the construction of the future European information society.
Last Saturday, during the closing ceremony of the eighth European Information Society Conference, the draft of the conference Declaration was published on this blog. It is a document, which includes the event’s main conclusions and appeals to the public powers to make an efficient use of ICTs. The Declaration is open to public debate for one week. During which all of the citizens’ may contribute their remarks and opinions to the text. We wish to remind you that the deadline is still open and we encourage you to participate in this debate from the EISCO 2010 blog.
On Saturday took place in Euskladuna Conference Center the last day of congress, when the event was officially finished and the draft of EISCO 2010 declaration was published. This document will be open to public discussion for a week.
DeclarationTeaming up for local eGovernment
Citizen involvement and quality of services
Almost 200 pictures of the conferences and round tables during Friday.
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