ePractice Mid-Term workshop BXL Date: 19 May 2008

On May 19, 2008, one year after its launch, the ePractice.eu portal will celebrate a Mid-Term workshop. The one-day event will be held in Brussels, in the European Commission’s premises, with the presence of high-level officials responsible of the eGovernment, eInclusion and eHealth European policies and relevant experts from the private and public sectors.

Designed as a hands-on learning and networking experience, the workshop aims to bring together representatives of public authorities, policy-makers, IT experts, academics and industry managers to discuss best practices in e-transformation from the European perspective.

Key actors in the eGovernment, eInclusion and eHealth domains will be in charge of delivering the keynote speeches, where they will outline the challenges ahead and bring forward questions that will be discussed by the audience based on their expertise and involvement in real life projects in different countries.

The expected outcome:
- Present and discuss the 6 best cases in the eGovernment, eInclusion and eHealth domains published in ePractice.eu
- Achieve key learnings for all workshop participants, independently from their domains
- Add value through relevant keynote speeches
- Offer a high level discussion panel
- Provide networking opportunities
- Cover topics of main general interest
- Provide input on the development of the ePractice.eu portal

The participants’ role:
Participants are expected to contribute with their expertise to one of the three working groups, where real-life good practice cases will be evaluated in order to analyse the challenges encountered and how to overcome them.

Fees:
Register here for this workshop. Attendance is free of charge. Seats are limited and will be filled in a first-come, first-served basis. If you are not yet an ePractice member, before signing up for the workshop you need to register

European Commission
DG Information Society and Media - BU25
Avenue de Beaulieu 25
Brussels

10:00-10:15	Opening and welcome. Agenda presentation and objectives of the session	David Broster (eGovernment Head of Unit, European Commission)
10:15–10:30	Introductory remarks	Gérard Comyn (Director, European Commission, DG Information Society, Directorate H ICT for Societal Challenges)
10:30–10:45	ePractice presentation. Latest features & functionalities, current developments and perspectives	Pierre Antoine Ullmo (Manager PAU Education)
10:45–11:15	Key note speech on eGovernment - Q&A	David Osimo (JRC, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies)
11:15–11:45	Coffee break
11:45–12:15	Key note speech on eInclusion - Q&A	Giuseppe Paruolo (Deputy Mayor for Health, Communication & ICT Bologna, and Chair of the Eurocities Knowledge Society Forum)
12:15–12:45	Key note speech on eHealth - Q&A	Speaker tbc
12:45–14:00	Lunch Break
	Parallel working sessions	In each session two ePractice cases will be presented and discussed
14:00–15:30	WS1 - eGovernment Theme: Challenges of implementing one-stop-shops to deliver better eGovernment services - Case 1: HoReCA1 (One-stop-shop for business, Government Award winner 2007) - Case 2: Mypage (One-stop-shop for citizens, eGovernment Award winner 2007) - Case discussions	Chair: David Broster (eGovernment Head of Unit, European Commission) - Maurice van Erven (City of Amsterdam) - Tor Alvik (Norway.no)
14:00–15:30	WS2 - eInclusion Theme: Local authorities agenda for eInclusion - Case 3: City of Ghent, A strategic program battle against the digital divide - Case 4: tbc - Case discussions	Chair: Paul Timmers (eInclusion Head of Unit, European Commission) - Martine Delannoy (Programme director Digital Divide Ghent, on behalf of Eurocities) - Pierre Colle (Agence Wallone des Télécommunication, on behalf of Erisa)
14:00–15:30	WS3 - eHealth Theme: eHealth Procurement - Case 5: tbc - Case 6: tbc - Case discussions	Chair: Ilias Iakovidis (eHealth Deputy Head of Unit, European Commission) Guest speakers tbc
15:30-16:00	Conclusions of the parallel sessions	Chair: David Broster
16:00-16:15	Concluding remarks	Karel De Vriendt (Head of Unit, IDABC, Informatics DG, European Commission)
16:15-16:30	Closing and wrap up	David Broster
16:30–17:30	Farewell coffee