CAPS2014 Conference
July 2
Session: CAPS in a wider landscape
Speaker: Policy Officer, Sustainable and Secure Society Directorate, Public Services Unit, European Commission’s DG Connect
The document summarizes discussions from a session on common technological issues related to e-commerce for environmental services. Key topics discussed included IST projects in the area of e-commerce, TEN-Telecom environmental projects, and identifying possible e-commerce projects through clustering. Attendees also discussed e-commerce business models and technologies as applied to environmental domains. Actions were identified to circulate a user questionnaire, business model evaluation grid, and technology evaluation grid.
EDF2014: Talk of European Data Innovator Award Winner: Johann Mittheisz, form...European Data Forum
This document summarizes an award given to Johann Mittheisz for European Data Innovator in 2014. It discusses Vienna's success as one of the world's most innovative cities, ranking highly in areas like quality of living, public transport, and being a congress city. It highlights Vienna's open data initiative and some apps created using open data like a toilet map, parking app, and voice assistant. Key dates are provided for Vienna's open data program in 2014 and an open invitation is extended to provide feedback on the program.
EDF2014: Talk of Vassileios Tsetsos, Chief Technical Officer, Mobics Ltd: Pre...European Data Forum
Selected Talk of Vassileios Tsetsos, Chief Technical Officer, Mobics Ltd at the European Data Forum 2014, 19 March 2014 in Athens, Greece: Predicting parking occupancy in a sensor-enabled smart city
Eliminating data roadbloacks to get by traffic roadblocks without painOpen Knowledge Belgium
Presentation by Bert Van Nuffelen at Open Belgium 2018 - http://2018.openbelgium.be/session/eliminating-data-roadblocks-get-traffic-roadblocks-without-pain
Horizon 2020 cross modal funding research opportunities - Martin BrennanKTN
Presentation 7 of 8 from Horizon 2020 for Rail event held 8th Nov 2013.
Cross modal calls for research relevant to rail supply chain and rail research.
The document discusses the Publicspending.gr (PSGR) program in Greece, which aims to provide transparency in public expenditure through network analysis and visualization of spending data. The key points are:
1) PSGR manifests the value of open data and ex-ante reporting of government decisions, shifting the paradigm for 40,000 public servants.
2) Since launching in 2011, PSGR has progressed from believing open data is valuable to realizing it requires refining like chiseling jewelry from rocks in a goldmine.
3) Network analysis is a basic tool used by PSGR to analyze and visualize linked spending data, enabling the study of relationships between important payees and payers and economic impacts
At Finpro's seminar on May 4, Krista Huhtala-Jenks from the Ministry of Transport and Communications spoke about how the government is supporting Finland's leading position in Mobility as a Service concept.
The document summarizes discussions from a session on common technological issues related to e-commerce for environmental services. Key topics discussed included IST projects in the area of e-commerce, TEN-Telecom environmental projects, and identifying possible e-commerce projects through clustering. Attendees also discussed e-commerce business models and technologies as applied to environmental domains. Actions were identified to circulate a user questionnaire, business model evaluation grid, and technology evaluation grid.
EDF2014: Talk of European Data Innovator Award Winner: Johann Mittheisz, form...European Data Forum
This document summarizes an award given to Johann Mittheisz for European Data Innovator in 2014. It discusses Vienna's success as one of the world's most innovative cities, ranking highly in areas like quality of living, public transport, and being a congress city. It highlights Vienna's open data initiative and some apps created using open data like a toilet map, parking app, and voice assistant. Key dates are provided for Vienna's open data program in 2014 and an open invitation is extended to provide feedback on the program.
EDF2014: Talk of Vassileios Tsetsos, Chief Technical Officer, Mobics Ltd: Pre...European Data Forum
Selected Talk of Vassileios Tsetsos, Chief Technical Officer, Mobics Ltd at the European Data Forum 2014, 19 March 2014 in Athens, Greece: Predicting parking occupancy in a sensor-enabled smart city
Eliminating data roadbloacks to get by traffic roadblocks without painOpen Knowledge Belgium
Presentation by Bert Van Nuffelen at Open Belgium 2018 - http://2018.openbelgium.be/session/eliminating-data-roadblocks-get-traffic-roadblocks-without-pain
Horizon 2020 cross modal funding research opportunities - Martin BrennanKTN
Presentation 7 of 8 from Horizon 2020 for Rail event held 8th Nov 2013.
Cross modal calls for research relevant to rail supply chain and rail research.
The document discusses the Publicspending.gr (PSGR) program in Greece, which aims to provide transparency in public expenditure through network analysis and visualization of spending data. The key points are:
1) PSGR manifests the value of open data and ex-ante reporting of government decisions, shifting the paradigm for 40,000 public servants.
2) Since launching in 2011, PSGR has progressed from believing open data is valuable to realizing it requires refining like chiseling jewelry from rocks in a goldmine.
3) Network analysis is a basic tool used by PSGR to analyze and visualize linked spending data, enabling the study of relationships between important payees and payers and economic impacts
At Finpro's seminar on May 4, Krista Huhtala-Jenks from the Ministry of Transport and Communications spoke about how the government is supporting Finland's leading position in Mobility as a Service concept.
George Niland gave a presentation on cities, ICT, innovation and participation at the 2014 European Commission Innovation Convention. He discussed EUROCITIES, a network of over 130 European cities that focuses on cooperation in areas like culture, economic development, environment, knowledge society and mobility. The Knowledge Society Forum's priorities include smart citizens, co-creation for innovation, and IT development for smart governance. Niland outlined challenges facing cities and how ICT can help address issues like population growth, budgets and sustainability while improving services for "internet citizens." He proposed tools like digital strategies, e-government, open data, co-creation and smart city projects to foster innovation, inclusion, mobility and participation. Funding, clear strategies and
Mário Campolargo - Services and clouds as cornerstones of the Digital AgendaServiceWave 2010
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Dr. Thierry Priol, INRIA, ServiceWave General Chair - Opening Welcome (edit)
Tags Description Dr. Thierry Priol, INRIA, ServiceWave General Chair - Opening Welcome Service Wave 2010 - Tuesday Dec 14th 2010
This document summarizes Charles Mok's presentation on ICT policy in Hong Kong. It outlines both the vision and challenges for Hong Kong to become a leader in ICT, including high internet connectivity, an open regulatory environment, and ICT as an economic driver. However, challenges like industry image, manpower, market size and investment must be addressed. The document then summarizes key initiatives from the Chief Executive's 2013 policy address to support ICT, including fostering collaboration between government, industry and academia to support areas like cloud computing, data centers, e-government and digital inclusion. It concludes by discussing how mobile, cloud and green ICT will impact the office of the future.
Traffic jams in Belgium have increased 35% from 2012 to 2016, with the average time lost in traffic jams being 160 hours per commuter yearly. Proposed solutions to address the growing congestion and economic damage of €9 billion by 2025 include both traditional infrastructure improvements and new smart city technologies. A variety of approaches are recommended such as multi-modality, transit-oriented development, low-emission zones, improved public transport, car sharing, traffic management systems, and digital innovations.
EDF2014: Talk of Krzysztof Wecel, Assistant professor, Poznan University of E...European Data Forum
Selected Talk of Krzysztof Wecel, Assistant professor, Poznan University of Economics, Poland at the European Data Forum 2014, 19 March 2014 in Athens, Greece: Advanced Exploration of Public Procurement Data in Linked Data Paradigm
Smart Incentives for Berlins Creative Industries - Projekt Zukunft/KEA workshopXinnovate
Smart Incentives for Berlins Creative Industries - a workshop by the Berlin partners and KEA @ the Cross Innovation Final Conference on October 16/17 in Birmingham (UK)
The Project Cross Innovation is designed to create bridges between the creative industries and other sectors. This project is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and made possible by the INTERREG IVC programme.
This document provides a summary of funding opportunities, events, investments, and news related to creative, digital and design businesses in the UK. It announces several open grants and competitions from Innovate UK and other organizations, including opportunities in immersive technology, digital pathology, boosting SME productivity, and connected and autonomous vehicles. Upcoming events are also listed on topics like sustainable aviation fuel, funding for electric vehicle infrastructure, and innovation loans briefings. The latest investment and news items highlight a report on the UK's immersive economy, potential solutions to knife crime, and new 4Manufacturing and nDreams case studies.
Big Data in Transport: Gaps and OpportunitiesNOESIS project
The aim of this presentation is to present the main gaps and opportunities that exist in the Big Data in Transport domain. The results of this presentation are part of NOESIS project (https://noesis-project.eu).
NOESIS project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 769980.
This document discusses the emerging need for data and marketplaces to support automated vehicle fleets. It summarizes Deutsche Telekom and T-Systems profiles, including customers, markets, and facts and figures. It then discusses T-Systems' role in providing IoT solutions and services for connected mobility challenges. The Autopilot project aims to enhance driving environments using IoT sensors and integrate IoT platforms and sensor data sharing to enable new automated driving services. Business models for public transport and shared mobility must address stakeholder needs around value, challenges, and forecasting return on investment from pilot experiences.
Horizon2020 Project “CITADEL” and the relevance for eGovernment Action Plan 2...Redazione InnovaPuglia
The CITADEL project aims to understand and transform European public administrations through an open platform. The 3-year, €3.6 million project involves 11 partners across 4 countries. The project seeks to (1) analyze information to improve public agency effectiveness; (2) incentivize co-creation of digital services; and (3) increase citizen participation and experience with services. The CITADEL platform includes tools for service discovery, user assessment, key performance indicator generation, co-creation support, and digital maturity assessment to transform agencies based on citizen feedback. The project is validating its approach with use cases in cities and regions across Europe.
This document provides a summary of funding opportunities, competitions, events, and other resources for UK creative and digital businesses in June 2017. It includes information on the following:
- A Design Foundations grant program to help businesses identify innovation opportunities through design interventions.
- A £55 million competition for connected and autonomous vehicle testing infrastructure projects.
- UK-China and UK-Malaysia industrial challenge programs investing in collaborative research projects.
- Funding of up to £470,000 for innovative projects encouraging walking and cycling.
- Investment in autonomous resupply systems for front-line military operations.
- A UK-Malaysia urban innovation challenge competition investing up to £3 million
The OSLO Interop Summit 2018 in Brussels brought together over 1000 local government and public services representatives from more than 250 information systems across administrations to discuss interoperability. The summit focused on achieving different levels of interoperability including technological, semantic, organizational, and legal through open standards and sharing and reusing vocabularies and resources. The ISA and OSLO vocabularies and frameworks aim to bridge modelling and implementation gaps and lower costs to facilitate interoperability across government levels through collaborative governance.
Citadel Apps4Dummies London Workshop - 13th Nov 2014 - Olavi LuotonenBen Cave
This document discusses smart cities and open data initiatives in Europe. It notes that by 2050, two-thirds of people will live in cities, which face challenges like pollution and stress. Open data can enable economic opportunities, better governance, address societal challenges, and accelerate scientific progress. The European Commission's strategies aim to promote open data reuse and develop a pan-European open data infrastructure. Several Horizon 2020 programs provide funding for smart city projects involving energy, transport, ICT and open data platforms.
20131002 athens e democracy m gonzalez-sanchogonzamg
digital democracy conference, Athens, 2 October 2013
Areas covered in the presentation:
1. overview of EC e-gov activities
2. e-participation and the policy cycle
3. lessons from the digital agenda
George Niland gave a presentation on cities, ICT, innovation and participation at the 2014 European Commission Innovation Convention. He discussed EUROCITIES, a network of over 130 European cities that focuses on cooperation in areas like culture, economic development, environment, knowledge society and mobility. The Knowledge Society Forum's priorities include smart citizens, co-creation for innovation, and IT development for smart governance. Niland outlined challenges facing cities and how ICT can help address issues like population growth, budgets and sustainability while improving services for "internet citizens." He proposed tools like digital strategies, e-government, open data, co-creation and smart city projects to foster innovation, inclusion, mobility and participation. Funding, clear strategies and
Mário Campolargo - Services and clouds as cornerstones of the Digital AgendaServiceWave 2010
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Dr. Thierry Priol, INRIA, ServiceWave General Chair - Opening Welcome (edit)
Tags Description Dr. Thierry Priol, INRIA, ServiceWave General Chair - Opening Welcome Service Wave 2010 - Tuesday Dec 14th 2010
This document summarizes Charles Mok's presentation on ICT policy in Hong Kong. It outlines both the vision and challenges for Hong Kong to become a leader in ICT, including high internet connectivity, an open regulatory environment, and ICT as an economic driver. However, challenges like industry image, manpower, market size and investment must be addressed. The document then summarizes key initiatives from the Chief Executive's 2013 policy address to support ICT, including fostering collaboration between government, industry and academia to support areas like cloud computing, data centers, e-government and digital inclusion. It concludes by discussing how mobile, cloud and green ICT will impact the office of the future.
Traffic jams in Belgium have increased 35% from 2012 to 2016, with the average time lost in traffic jams being 160 hours per commuter yearly. Proposed solutions to address the growing congestion and economic damage of €9 billion by 2025 include both traditional infrastructure improvements and new smart city technologies. A variety of approaches are recommended such as multi-modality, transit-oriented development, low-emission zones, improved public transport, car sharing, traffic management systems, and digital innovations.
EDF2014: Talk of Krzysztof Wecel, Assistant professor, Poznan University of E...European Data Forum
Selected Talk of Krzysztof Wecel, Assistant professor, Poznan University of Economics, Poland at the European Data Forum 2014, 19 March 2014 in Athens, Greece: Advanced Exploration of Public Procurement Data in Linked Data Paradigm
Smart Incentives for Berlins Creative Industries - Projekt Zukunft/KEA workshopXinnovate
Smart Incentives for Berlins Creative Industries - a workshop by the Berlin partners and KEA @ the Cross Innovation Final Conference on October 16/17 in Birmingham (UK)
The Project Cross Innovation is designed to create bridges between the creative industries and other sectors. This project is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and made possible by the INTERREG IVC programme.
This document provides a summary of funding opportunities, events, investments, and news related to creative, digital and design businesses in the UK. It announces several open grants and competitions from Innovate UK and other organizations, including opportunities in immersive technology, digital pathology, boosting SME productivity, and connected and autonomous vehicles. Upcoming events are also listed on topics like sustainable aviation fuel, funding for electric vehicle infrastructure, and innovation loans briefings. The latest investment and news items highlight a report on the UK's immersive economy, potential solutions to knife crime, and new 4Manufacturing and nDreams case studies.
Big Data in Transport: Gaps and OpportunitiesNOESIS project
The aim of this presentation is to present the main gaps and opportunities that exist in the Big Data in Transport domain. The results of this presentation are part of NOESIS project (https://noesis-project.eu).
NOESIS project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 769980.
This document discusses the emerging need for data and marketplaces to support automated vehicle fleets. It summarizes Deutsche Telekom and T-Systems profiles, including customers, markets, and facts and figures. It then discusses T-Systems' role in providing IoT solutions and services for connected mobility challenges. The Autopilot project aims to enhance driving environments using IoT sensors and integrate IoT platforms and sensor data sharing to enable new automated driving services. Business models for public transport and shared mobility must address stakeholder needs around value, challenges, and forecasting return on investment from pilot experiences.
Horizon2020 Project “CITADEL” and the relevance for eGovernment Action Plan 2...Redazione InnovaPuglia
The CITADEL project aims to understand and transform European public administrations through an open platform. The 3-year, €3.6 million project involves 11 partners across 4 countries. The project seeks to (1) analyze information to improve public agency effectiveness; (2) incentivize co-creation of digital services; and (3) increase citizen participation and experience with services. The CITADEL platform includes tools for service discovery, user assessment, key performance indicator generation, co-creation support, and digital maturity assessment to transform agencies based on citizen feedback. The project is validating its approach with use cases in cities and regions across Europe.
This document provides a summary of funding opportunities, competitions, events, and other resources for UK creative and digital businesses in June 2017. It includes information on the following:
- A Design Foundations grant program to help businesses identify innovation opportunities through design interventions.
- A £55 million competition for connected and autonomous vehicle testing infrastructure projects.
- UK-China and UK-Malaysia industrial challenge programs investing in collaborative research projects.
- Funding of up to £470,000 for innovative projects encouraging walking and cycling.
- Investment in autonomous resupply systems for front-line military operations.
- A UK-Malaysia urban innovation challenge competition investing up to £3 million
The OSLO Interop Summit 2018 in Brussels brought together over 1000 local government and public services representatives from more than 250 information systems across administrations to discuss interoperability. The summit focused on achieving different levels of interoperability including technological, semantic, organizational, and legal through open standards and sharing and reusing vocabularies and resources. The ISA and OSLO vocabularies and frameworks aim to bridge modelling and implementation gaps and lower costs to facilitate interoperability across government levels through collaborative governance.
Citadel Apps4Dummies London Workshop - 13th Nov 2014 - Olavi LuotonenBen Cave
This document discusses smart cities and open data initiatives in Europe. It notes that by 2050, two-thirds of people will live in cities, which face challenges like pollution and stress. Open data can enable economic opportunities, better governance, address societal challenges, and accelerate scientific progress. The European Commission's strategies aim to promote open data reuse and develop a pan-European open data infrastructure. Several Horizon 2020 programs provide funding for smart city projects involving energy, transport, ICT and open data platforms.
20131002 athens e democracy m gonzalez-sanchogonzamg
digital democracy conference, Athens, 2 October 2013
Areas covered in the presentation:
1. overview of EC e-gov activities
2. e-participation and the policy cycle
3. lessons from the digital agenda
The Digital Europe programme will reinforce the EU's digital capacities in high performance computing, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity. It aims to ensure these capacities are widely rolled out and used to their full potential across the economy and society. The programme focuses on deploying and scaling up key digital technologies while also developing advanced digital skills.
EUDAT 3rd Conference: Bringing Data e-Infrastructures to Horizon2020 - Carl-C...EUDAT
| www.eudat.eu | EUDAT 3rd Conference Opening Session: Bringing Data e-Infrastructures to Horizon2020 - Carl-Christian Buhr, Member of the Cabinet of Ms Neelie Kroes, Vice‐President for Digital Agenda, European Commission - Wednesday 24th September 2014, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
The document discusses the upcoming European Commission eGovernment Action Plan for 2016-2020. The action plan will focus on three pillars: 1) Digitalizing public administration with ICT, 2) Enabling cross-border mobility with digital public services, and 3) Facilitating participation in policymaking and co-creation of services. It will implement objectives agreed at the EU level and allow citizens to suggest voluntary actions. A stakeholder consultation platform will crowdsource ideas, apply selection criteria, and monitor implementation of actions using data. The overall goal is to modernize public administration and facilitate interaction between governments and citizens/businesses across Europe.
The document discusses the Digital Agenda for Europe, which aims to address Europe's economic challenges through digital transformation. It contains 101 actions grouped in 7 priority areas and 13 goals. Progress is measured through an annual scoreboard. Key initiatives include expanding broadband access, boosting digital skills, completing the digital single market, and increasing research funding. The Digital Agenda is supported by programs like the Connecting Europe Facility and Horizon 2020, which fund projects in areas like cloud computing, cybersecurity, and open data.
Ict enabled public sector innovation in h2020SarahBuelens
1) The document discusses ICT-enabled public sector innovation opportunities in Horizon 2020, the EU's research and innovation program.
2) Key areas of focus include open government through open data, processes, and services to empower citizens, increase transparency and efficiency.
3) Specific Horizon 2020 calls are identified that relate to ICT-enabled public sector innovation in areas like open participation, personalised mobile public services, and using emerging technologies in government.
This presentation discusses the results of recent research conducted by Paskaleva on European trends on smart cities in the context of open innovation. It draws from analyses of key European Union programmes, latest international projects and related activities. The emerging new approach to open innovation is discussed that links technologies with people, the urban territory and other cities to reap the benefits of modern technological and social advance. It is suggested that using open innovation for building the smart (-er) city can be effective, efficient and sustainable but consistent frameworks, principles and strategic agendas are necessary to optimally bind these elements together.
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Creating the governance framework
and roadmaps for smart city investments, which are oftentimes
costly, is essential for ensuring that effort is directed to the real needs in the territory. Leveraging on
intrinsic territorial attractiveness potentials, today’s challenge for most cities is
to meet actual urban
problems with the right tools and fitting flagship projects.
The lessons learned and ongoing smart cities initiatives we present aim at bridging the pan
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European
innovation landscape with the actual beneficiaries using participatory st
rategic planning processes
and integrated approaches to standardizing key performance indicators for Smart Cities (ESPRESSO
Project).
The role of open data in the development of sustainable smart cities and smar...Anastasija Nikiforova
This presentation is a supplementary material for the guest lecture "The role of open data in the development of sustainable smart cities and smart society" I delivered for the Federal University of Technology – Paraná (Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR)) (Brazil, May 2022).
Mobile Age ensures the inclusion of seniors in digital public services thanks to the development of user-friendly mobile applications based on open government data.
Thus, it supports their access to civic participation, their involvement in their communities, and helps them benefit from open government data and mobile technologies.
Such mobile applications will be tested at co-creation workshops held in four pilot sites in Europe, namely UK, Germany, Spain and Greece.
This material reflects only the author's view and the Research Executive Agency (REA) is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
http://www.mobile-age.eu/
Project's website: www.www.mobile-age.eu
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 693319
eGovernment Action Plan 2016 2020 accelerating the digital transformation of ...Dejan Majkic
This document is the EU eGovernment Action Plan 2016-2020 from the European Commission. It lays out a vision for borderless, personalized, user-friendly digital public services across the EU by 2020. Key priorities include modernizing public administrations with digital technologies, achieving cross-border interoperability, and facilitating interaction between governments and citizens/businesses. Specific actions focus on areas like e-procurement, electronic identification, open data, and standards to increase interoperability. The plan also outlines principles of digital by default, once-only provision of information, inclusiveness, openness, and trust to guide future eGovernment initiatives.
This document provides guidance to local and regional administrations on implementing digital solutions and finding EU funding to modernize public services. It recommends developing a comprehensive digital strategy involving all departments. Key aspects discussed include developing infrastructure like eIDs; opening high-value datasets through an open data portal; and participatory budgeting to increase transparency and citizen engagement in decision-making. The document provides principles, tools, and examples to help local governments digitalize services in line with EU recommendations.
Mario campolargo - FIRE in the general Future Internet StrategyFire Conference 2010
The document discusses the European Commission's views on the future of the internet and priorities for research and innovation. It outlines several flagship initiatives aimed at creating a smart, sustainable and inclusive digital society in Europe. Specifically, it focuses on the Future Internet Public-Private Partnership (FI-PPP) program's goals of accelerating innovation through experimentation using the FIRE experimental facility. The FI-PPP and FIRE aim to support research on new network and service architectures through large-scale trials to assess technical and non-technical impacts.
The document summarizes the Digital Agenda for Europe, which aims to promote broadband access and digital literacy across the EU. It outlines the Digital Agenda's 101 specific actions and targets, including ensuring broadband access for all EU citizens by 2013 and access speeds of at least 30 megabits per second by 2020. It also discusses related EU initiatives and funding to support e-government, e-health, research and innovation, and the Connecting Europe Facility to promote broadband network development.
Lorena Pocatilu - strategies for smart city knowledge platform and open datatu1204
The document discusses strategies for implementing smart city knowledge platforms and open data. It describes how knowledge platforms can provide access to new information, open data, connect users, and enable collaboration and innovation. As more people live in cities, knowledge platforms and open data can help manage information more efficiently to improve quality of life. Successful implementation requires addressing barriers like cultures opposed to openness and data quality problems. Open data offers opportunities to analyze and visualize data from different sources which is important for addressing societal challenges in smart cities. Several initiatives for open data are also described.
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Social Innovation Europe is a collaborative platform launched in 2011 to support new solutions that address social needs and challenges. The platform has approximately 4,000 members and provides information on initiatives like the European Social Innovation Competition and projects on social innovation incubators, digital social innovation, and stimulating digital entrepreneurship through the Watify platform.
CAPS2014 - ICT for Ageing & Digital Social PlatformsCAPS2020
This document outlines opportunities for collaboration and funding related to aging and digital social platforms from the European Commission. It discusses several European programs and initiatives that focus on research and innovation in healthcare, aging, and information and communication technologies (ICT), including Horizon 2020, the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Aging, and the Joint Programming Initiative on Alzheimer's disease. It also describes specific funding opportunities for digital social platforms, early risk detection in aging, and advanced ICT systems and services for integrated care.
CAPS2014 - European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and CommunitiesCAPS2020
CAPS2014 Conference
July 2
Session: CAPS in a wider landscape
Speaker: Wolfgang Hoefs,Head of Sector “Strategic Planning and Communication”, Smart Cities and Sustainability Unit, European Commission’s DG Connect
This document summarizes the CAP4Access project, which aims to improve accessibility in European cities for people with limited mobility. The project will develop online tools to document and discuss accessibility locations and routes. It will also enable route planning and visualization of accessibility data. The project involves partners from several European countries and universities. It will engage end-users like those with disabilities to participatorily develop and evaluate the tools over three years. The project will also make policy recommendations and measure impacts like increased accessibility awareness and social inclusion.
The CAPS2020 project aims to organize the annual CAPS conference in Brussels in 2014 and 2015, facilitate collaboration between CAPS projects, and increase awareness of CAPS topics. The coordinator, Sigma Orionis, is a 30-year-old research and consulting firm specialized in ICT and international cooperation. CAPS2020 maintains a website at caps2020.eu and social media profiles to engage stakeholders and share project updates. It proposes synergies such as creating a shared Facebook page and Wiki, coordinating project events with the CAPS conference, and organizing a collaborative booksprint.
This document summarizes the CAPS Concertation meeting. The CHEST project aims to fund and support around 60 digital social innovation projects, focusing on areas like education, social inclusion, civic engagement, and sustainability. It will help transform novel ideas into viable social initiatives and assess their impact. The project also seeks to develop best practices for ideating, selecting, funding, supporting and monitoring such initiatives. It is a collaboration between several partners and outlines the project timeline and plans for synergies with other related CAPS projects.
The Web-COSI project aims to foster citizen engagement in new measures of societal progress beyond GDP. Over 24 months, it will:
1) Map existing initiatives and best practices in community involvement in progress statistics.
2) Conduct online campaigns and develop a Wiki of progress statistics to integrate official and non-official citizen-generated data.
3) Organize workshops, focus groups, and a final conference to promote discussion and disseminate methods for measuring well-being.
The project aims to better integrate top-down and bottom-up approaches to statistics through open data tools and an extensive outreach strategy across stakeholders from academia to citizens. It seeks synergies with other EU projects measuring well-being indicators
The document presents the Catalyst project which aims to develop collective intelligence tools and services to augment existing social media platforms and support public deliberation. The project will deliver an ecosystem of tools including annotation tools, recommenders, creativity triggers, visualizations, and analytics. These tools will be trialled across various social innovation networks. The project seeks synergies with other CAPS projects and will hold an open competition to test the tools on community platforms from January to April 2015.
The Decarbonet project aims to raise awareness of climate change and trigger behavioral change through a citizen empowerment platform. The project will analyze behavioral patterns and information diffusion to understand how to foster social innovation. It will develop a platform with tools for collective awareness and translate that awareness into actions that reduce carbon emissions. The project is funded by the EU and runs from 2013-2016, with dissemination efforts including publications, conferences, and news media outreach.
The document discusses the IA4SI project which aims to develop a methodology and online tools to assess the socio-political, economic, and environmental impact of digital social innovation initiatives. The objectives are to map factors supporting wider adoption of these initiatives, assess their impacts at project and domain levels, and develop recommendations to improve impact. Workshops will gather feedback on draft tools and methods. The tools will help projects evaluate impact and get input from citizens. The project expects impacts such as increased awareness of impacts, use of impact assessment methods, and engagement of citizens in assessment.
The European Observatory for Crowd-Sourcing aims to promote deeper citizen engagement on social issues through scientific citizenship. It provides a portable virtual platform and observatory support for crowd-sourcing. The project seeks to facilitate participative management to enable inclusive, e-democratic and co-creative consensus seeking. It conducts experiments to evaluate various approaches for engaging citizens in democratic processes and establishes best practices for social engagement. The project is coordinated by the University of Reading and involves partners from Italy and the UK.
This document provides an introduction and overview of the Wikirate project. Wikirate aims to increase transparency of corporate activities through crowdsourcing claims about companies on an open source, semantic wiki platform. It seeks to engage stakeholders in companies' operations through radical transparency and low barriers to participation. The project objectives are to create a database of companies' ethical behaviors and eventually provide personalized CSR ratings. It involves various partners contributing to different aspects like platform development, user experience design, and data processing.
The document summarizes the P2Pvalue project, which aims to research and build tools to support collaborative production and value creation. The project partners include universities and research centers. The main goals are to study conditions that enable peer production, develop a decentralized software platform, build communities around common-based production, and make policy recommendations. Recent achievements include launching the project community and releasing initial research frameworks and a directory of peer production cases.
Gen Z and the marketplaces - let's translate their needsLaura Szabó
The product workshop focused on exploring the requirements of Generation Z in relation to marketplace dynamics. We delved into their specific needs, examined the specifics in their shopping preferences, and analyzed their preferred methods for accessing information and making purchases within a marketplace. Through the study of real-life cases , we tried to gain valuable insights into enhancing the marketplace experience for Generation Z.
The workshop was held on the DMA Conference in Vienna June 2024.
Discover the benefits of outsourcing SEO to Indiadavidjhones387
"Discover the benefits of outsourcing SEO to India! From cost-effective services and expert professionals to round-the-clock work advantages, learn how your business can achieve digital success with Indian SEO solutions.
Meet up Milano 14 _ Axpo Italia_ Migration from Mule3 (On-prem) to.pdfFlorence Consulting
Quattordicesimo Meetup di Milano, tenutosi a Milano il 23 Maggio 2024 dalle ore 17:00 alle ore 18:30 in presenza e da remoto.
Abbiamo parlato di come Axpo Italia S.p.A. ha ridotto il technical debt migrando le proprie APIs da Mule 3.9 a Mule 4.4 passando anche da on-premises a CloudHub 1.0.
Ready to Unlock the Power of Blockchain!Toptal Tech
Imagine a world where data flows freely, yet remains secure. A world where trust is built into the fabric of every transaction. This is the promise of blockchain, a revolutionary technology poised to reshape our digital landscape.
Toptal Tech is at the forefront of this innovation, connecting you with the brightest minds in blockchain development. Together, we can unlock the potential of this transformative technology, building a future of transparency, security, and endless possibilities.
Instagram has become one of the most popular social media platforms, allowing people to share photos, videos, and stories with their followers. Sometimes, though, you might want to view someone's story without them knowing.
1. ICT-enabled public sector
innovation
Work Programme 2014-2015
HORIZON 2020
CAPS2014 Conference
Brussels, 2 July 2014
Andrea Halmos
European Commission, DG CONNECT
Unit "Public Services"
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Cloud of Public Services
projects
http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/towards-cloud-public-services
The 2011 projects have now achieved some concrete results:
Open-DAI
eEnviPer
OASIS
InGeoCloudS
SEED
The 2013 projects aim to develop the concept further, and
have mostly just started:
CLIPS
CloudOpting
ECIM
STORM CLOUDS
STRATEGIC
VIRGO
6. PolicyPolicyResearch
and
Innovation
Research
and
Innovation
ICT-enabled public sector
innovation in H2020
ICT-enabled
public sector innovation
in H2020
Excellent
Science
Industria
l
Leaders
hip
(LEIT)
Societal
Challeng
es (SC)
ICT-enabled public sector innovation calls for proposals in 2015:
EURO-6: Using emerging technologies in the public sector
INSO-1: ICT-enabled open government (personalised, mobile public services, transparency)
•Pilots on mobile, personalised public services, using open public data or open public services, or pilots on
transparency of public administrations, leading to increased trust and accountability
•Coordination and Support Action for ICT-enabled open government
INSO-9: Innovative mobile eGov apps
•Supporting innovative SMEs, including start-ups, for the design and creation of innovative applications, in
order to foster the delivery of mobile public services and thus help the interaction of citizens and businesses
with public administrations
Societal Challenge 6
7. PolicyPolicyResearch
and
Innovation
Research
and
Innovation
Thank you! More info
Open government:
http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/open-
government
H2020:
http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en
Contact us:
http://ec.europa.eu/egovernment
Cnect-egovernment@ec.europa.eu
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