The document discusses challenges and future approaches to eDemocracy. It summarizes the vision and work of the Center for eGovernance Development to promote inclusive information societies in Southeast Europe. Some key challenges outlined are conceptualizing eDemocracy, ensuring positive ICT effects, engaging citizens and policymakers. Future approaches proposed include political will, strategy, inclusion, participation, and regional cooperation.
Report on current policies and regulatory frameworksOles Kulchytskyy
The Report on current policies and regulatory frameworks for social media and content convergence: information disorder, human rights and regulatory implications (D2.1) provides a
comprehensive insight into regulatory and governance initiatives addressing the human rights concerns related to information disorder in social media and a better understanding of the
regulatory and governance implications, including their potential impact on the fragmentation of the single market.
The information is prepared by the team of the COMPACT project (http://compact-media.eu/).
COMPACT is a Coordination and Support Action funded European Commission under framework Horizon 2020.
The objective of the COMPACT project is to increase awareness (including scientific, political, cultural, legal, economic and technical areas) of the latest technological discoveries among key stakeholders in the context of social media and convergence. The project will offer analyses and road maps of related initiatives. In addition, extensive research on policies and regulatory frameworks in media and content will be developed.
The Potential and Evidence of ICT-Based Cost and Burden Reduction in Public A...Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen
This presentation is from WSIS Forum 2016, Session 105 on “ICT-Based Cost & Burden Reduction in Public Administration and Service Delivery”. Room C1, ITU Tower, 11-13hrs CET, 5 May 2016, http://bit.ly/1OcFbIH
Presented by Tomasz Janowski, Head, UNU-EGOV
PROGRAMME
11:00 - 11:10 Introduction. Tomasz Janowski, Head, UNU-EGOV
11:10 - 11:25 Double-up: ICT enabled cost and burden reduction in public sector service delivery.
Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen, UNU-EGOV Academic Fellow and Researcher, Tallinn University of Technology Ragnar Nurkse School for Innovation and Governance
11:25 – 11:40 ICT enabled administrative burden reduction and cost savings in Uganda. Kenneth Bagarukayo, UNU-EGOV Government Fellow and Commissioner Information Management Services, Ministry of Information and Communications Technology, Uganda
11:40 – 11:55 Argentina Modernization Plan. Maria Inés Baqué, Secretary of Public Management and Innovation under the Ministry of Modernization of Argentina Republic
11:55 – 12:15 Question 1: Cost savings, e.g. less time spend and lower financial cost. What comes first: Cost savings or burden reduction? Is it possible to cut costs while minimizing the overall administrative burden?
12:15 – 12:35 Question 2: Quality improvements, e.g. easier, faster and more equitable public services. Is it possible to improve service quality without increasing cost and administrative burden of service delivery? Which is easier? How is a triple win situation ensured? How is the quality improvement, cost and burden measured?
12:35 – 12:55 Question 3: Job creation and economic growth, e.g. lower administrative costs for the private sector. Is it possible to regulate the private sector (e.g. environment, labor conditions) without increased bureaucracy and the cost of doing business? How is no-regulation balanced with over-regulation? How to balance the cost of bureaucracy versus the cost of corruption? How can ICT be used? How do we measure the impact?
12:55- 13:00 Conclusions. Tomasz Janowski, Head, UNU-EGOV
CONTENT
1. ICTs and political democracy
2. ICTs and active citizenship
3. Technological determinism vs. social constructivism
4. Spatial and communicative diversity (4 cases)
5. The role of NGOs in e-participation
6. Recommendations for e-participation: toward realistic optimism
Presentation by Françoise Waintrop at seminar 1 held on 4 March 2021, which addresses life-events in public service delivery: what and how? This event takes place in the framework of a series of webinars organised by the SIGMA Programme, a joint initiative of the OECD and EU, principally financed by the EU, on the role of life events in end-to-end public service delivery.
Report on current policies and regulatory frameworksOles Kulchytskyy
The Report on current policies and regulatory frameworks for social media and content convergence: information disorder, human rights and regulatory implications (D2.1) provides a
comprehensive insight into regulatory and governance initiatives addressing the human rights concerns related to information disorder in social media and a better understanding of the
regulatory and governance implications, including their potential impact on the fragmentation of the single market.
The information is prepared by the team of the COMPACT project (http://compact-media.eu/).
COMPACT is a Coordination and Support Action funded European Commission under framework Horizon 2020.
The objective of the COMPACT project is to increase awareness (including scientific, political, cultural, legal, economic and technical areas) of the latest technological discoveries among key stakeholders in the context of social media and convergence. The project will offer analyses and road maps of related initiatives. In addition, extensive research on policies and regulatory frameworks in media and content will be developed.
The Potential and Evidence of ICT-Based Cost and Burden Reduction in Public A...Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen
This presentation is from WSIS Forum 2016, Session 105 on “ICT-Based Cost & Burden Reduction in Public Administration and Service Delivery”. Room C1, ITU Tower, 11-13hrs CET, 5 May 2016, http://bit.ly/1OcFbIH
Presented by Tomasz Janowski, Head, UNU-EGOV
PROGRAMME
11:00 - 11:10 Introduction. Tomasz Janowski, Head, UNU-EGOV
11:10 - 11:25 Double-up: ICT enabled cost and burden reduction in public sector service delivery.
Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen, UNU-EGOV Academic Fellow and Researcher, Tallinn University of Technology Ragnar Nurkse School for Innovation and Governance
11:25 – 11:40 ICT enabled administrative burden reduction and cost savings in Uganda. Kenneth Bagarukayo, UNU-EGOV Government Fellow and Commissioner Information Management Services, Ministry of Information and Communications Technology, Uganda
11:40 – 11:55 Argentina Modernization Plan. Maria Inés Baqué, Secretary of Public Management and Innovation under the Ministry of Modernization of Argentina Republic
11:55 – 12:15 Question 1: Cost savings, e.g. less time spend and lower financial cost. What comes first: Cost savings or burden reduction? Is it possible to cut costs while minimizing the overall administrative burden?
12:15 – 12:35 Question 2: Quality improvements, e.g. easier, faster and more equitable public services. Is it possible to improve service quality without increasing cost and administrative burden of service delivery? Which is easier? How is a triple win situation ensured? How is the quality improvement, cost and burden measured?
12:35 – 12:55 Question 3: Job creation and economic growth, e.g. lower administrative costs for the private sector. Is it possible to regulate the private sector (e.g. environment, labor conditions) without increased bureaucracy and the cost of doing business? How is no-regulation balanced with over-regulation? How to balance the cost of bureaucracy versus the cost of corruption? How can ICT be used? How do we measure the impact?
12:55- 13:00 Conclusions. Tomasz Janowski, Head, UNU-EGOV
CONTENT
1. ICTs and political democracy
2. ICTs and active citizenship
3. Technological determinism vs. social constructivism
4. Spatial and communicative diversity (4 cases)
5. The role of NGOs in e-participation
6. Recommendations for e-participation: toward realistic optimism
Presentation by Françoise Waintrop at seminar 1 held on 4 March 2021, which addresses life-events in public service delivery: what and how? This event takes place in the framework of a series of webinars organised by the SIGMA Programme, a joint initiative of the OECD and EU, principally financed by the EU, on the role of life events in end-to-end public service delivery.
ATA 2017: Languages and Open Data, Trinaistic, E. and Cano, L.M. Eliana Trinaistic
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e-SIDES Community Position Paper User Manuale-SIDES.eu
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Seminar given in Barcelona, November 20th, 2007 at the Executive Master in e-Governance, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
http://ictlogy.net/bibciter/reports/projects.php?idp=801
Open Data initiatives are increasingly considered
as defining elements of emerging smart cities.
However, few studies have attempted to provide a
better understanding of the nature of this convergence
and the impact on both domains. This paper presents
findings from a detailed study of 18 open data
initiatives across five smart cities – Barcelona,
Chicago, Manchester, Amsterdam, and Helsinki.
Specifically, the study sought to understand how open
data initiatives are shaped by the different smart cities
contexts and concomitantly what kinds of innovations
are enabled by open data in these cities. The findings
highlight the specific impacts of open data innovation
on the different smart cities domains, governance of
the cities, and the nature of datasets available in the
open data ecosystem.
Link to the paper: http://conferences.computer.org/hicss/2015/papers/7367c326.pdf
Evaluating eParticipation sophistication of Regional Authorities websites: Th...Efthimios Tambouris
Paper presented in ePart 2019 conference, Linz, Austria. The paper is available from Springer (see http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-03781-8_7)
Review of FOSS-related policy efforts within the framework of Information Society development in Macedonia so far. Related to similar efforts by Croatia, another EU-candidate country.
How Digital Transformations Impact Regional Ecosystem: The Case of SofiaBagryan Malamin
Dr. Vassil Kirov’ BEYOND4.0 presentation at the “Regional Development and the Factors of Success: Education, Economy and Social Policy in the Regions” conference organized by the ISSK-BAS and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.
How Digital Transformations Impact Regional Ecosystem: The Case of SofiaBEYOND4.0
Dr. Vassil Kirov’ BEYOND4.0 presentation at the “Regional Development and the Factors of Success: Education, Economy and Social Policy in the Regions” conference organized by the ISSK-BAS and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.
The aim of the workshop was to discuss the state-of-art of the Smart City concept and how to translate existing approaches to the reality of the local governments, as well as the institutional capacity for making smarter decisions.
Robert Scholz presented the importance to investigate concepts, which enable the unification and the common understanding and the replication of ICT architectures. He pointed out how to achieve an unified approach which aims to fulfill complex and integrative ICT solutions for Smart Cities. The presented approach aims to base on the idea of openness with 1) respect to interfaces 2)software components and 3) data. It was shown that those are seen as the main ingredient of an ICT eco-system for Smart Cities.
[X]CHANGING PERSPECTIVES:
ENRICHING MULTISTAKEHOLDER DELIBERATION WITH EMBODIMENT IN
PARTICIPATORY SOCIETY presented at the CeDEM17 Conference in Krems, Austria
War Co-Creation vor 10 Jahren noch stark auf den Bereich Wirtschaft beschränkt, so findet sich das Konzept nun auch immer mehr im Bereich der Verwaltung und der Öffentlichkeit.
Datenschutzbeauftragte werden in Zukunft eine wichtige Rolle im Unternehmen spielen
5 Fragen an Thomas Jost
Lehrender “Geprüfte/r Datenschutzbeauftragte/r”
Department für E-Governance in Wirtschaft und Verwaltung
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The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
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Speakers:
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LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
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PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
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The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
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Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
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Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
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Download the full report from here:
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3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
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Speaker:
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https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
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Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
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Re-thinking E-Democracy
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11. Foresigjht is “the application of ‘ systematic ’ , ‘ participatory ’ , ‘ future-intelligence-gathering and medium-to-long-term vision building process ’ to ‘ informing present-day decisions and mobilising joint actions ’ ’ ( Miles and Keenan (2002) Participation and communication in Foresight landscape Source: Saritas et al. (2007)
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14. Thank you for your attention! Contact: Blaž Golob Email: blaz.golob @cegd.eu Tel.: +386 41 734 734 http:// www.cegd.eu /