IRIS 2011 Tag 3

Wir freuen uns besonders, dass zwei Einreichungen des Zentrums für E-Government unter den ersten 10 des Lexis Nexis Best Paper Award für hervorragende Tagunsbeiträge gereiht wurden: die Beiträge von Prof. Dr. Arthur Winter und Mag. Johann Höchtl und Peter Reichstädter. Kriterien für die Bewertung sind wissenschaftliche Relevanz, Aktualität, Originalität, Methodik, Anwendbarkeit, sowie Struktur und Präsentation der Arbeit.

Offene Daten und Informationen im Politikzyklus. Voraussetzungen, Risiken und Umsetzungspotentiale von Open Government und Open Data in europäischer Perspektive (Peter Parycek, Michael Sachs, Judith Schoßböck)

Der Vortrag thematisierte freie und offene Information als Voraussetzung für Open Government in einem europäischen Kontext. Die Integration von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien in den Nutzungsalltag macht es gegenwärtig möglich, erstmals die Potentiale des Open Governments zu evaluieren und in die Praxis zu transferieren. Die Diskussion, die sich auch dem Schlagwort Open Government bediente, endete im Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) aus dem Jahr 1966, der den Informationszugang der amerikanischen Öffentlichkeit zu staatlichen Informationen regelt. Der FOIA verpflichtet staatliche Institutionen, BürgerInnen Informationen zur Verfügung zu stellen und dies nur bei geregelten Ausnahmen zu unterbinden. Seither wurde der FOIA mehrmals ergänzt und geändert, wobei die Informationspflicht des Staates stärker akzentuiert und die Gesetzeslage an Entwicklungen der Daten- und Informationsaufbereitung und -speicherung angepasst wurde.

EU Online Consultation: eGovernment

The Flemish Government and a host of European local government partner organisations are working to ensure that the Belgian Presidency’s forthcoming ‘Lift Off Towards Open Government’ Conference on December 15-16th starts with a bang by identifying the top things that national and EU decision makers can do by 2013 to better support local eGovernment.

Citadel Statement

The aim of this effort is to produce a pan-European ‘Call to Action’ – known as the Citadel Statement – that will help local government deliver on the key objectives of the Malmö Ministerial Declaration. To have maximum impact, it is important that the Citadel Statement reflects the views of local eGovernment practioners from across Europe.

Help make the Citadel Statement a success by joining the online consultation at: Local eGovernment Statement

The Flemish Government invite practioners from across Europe to the official launch of the Citadel Statement at a pre-conference on the site of the old Ghent Citadel on December 14. Register now at www.opengov2010.be

E-Government out of the Box

Vortrag im Rahmen der Fachtagung FLGÖ Niederösterreich 2010.

 

Renaissance for eGovernance & SEE 5-7th October 2010 Portorož, Slovenia

The Centre for eGovernance Development (CeGD) and Microsoft prepared this well organized Conference, with interesting and valuable content and professional presenters. This three-day event targeted at government policy makers and decision makers who focus on how technology can transform the public sector in the areas of citizen services, education, and healthcare.

The conference also aims to provide a platform for leaders, technocrats, researchers, practitioners, and academics across the SEE region to present and discuss their research findings, experiences, strategies, policies, technologies, case studies, and best practices in the field of eGovernment and eGovernance. The Centre for E-Government of Danube University Krems is cooperating with the Centre for eGovernance Development since its foundation in 2008 and also took part in the Bled Forum 2010.

A special website is available at where detailed information, including the agenda and list of speakers, is provided.

Confernece Agenda (pdf)

The whole event was filmed and all presentations are available at the CeGD Homepage.

Gov 2.0 vs. the Beast of Bureaucracy

Freitag, 10. September 2010, 16:30:11 | Andrew McAfee:

If Tim O’Reilly didn’t exist, the technology industry would have to invent him. He knows everybody, can explain anything to anyone, helps us understand where things are headed, and convenes diverse groups of people to think about talk about the big topics.

He does all this while maintaining a sense of enthusiasm that I usually see only among people waiting in line for the next release of Halo. Tim likes technology for its own sake, but he’s more fundamentally enamored of what it can do — how it can open up new territory, improve people’s lives, and address vexing problems. After more than 30 years of running O’Reilly Media he exudes the vibe of “this is so cool” that all of us geeks remember from the first time we sat down in front of a computer (and for whatever it’s worth, I think he’s exactly right; this remains so cool.).

Tim brought a bunch of us together at the Gov 2.0 Summit earlier this week to discuss how the geek toolkit is being used to improve the work of government. A lot of the talks are available online at O’Reilly’s YouTube channel (my talk with Tim is here), and I encourage you to check them out. The best of them, like Carl Malamud’s and Ellen Miller‘s, are inspirational (and yes, that word is terribly overused).

The central impression the Summit left on me was of a dedicated and tenacious group of people waging war on bureaucracy, which Javier Pascual Salcedo defined as “the art of making the possible impossible.” The government doesn’t have a monopoly on bureaucracy, of course, but it does have pretty good market share”. A capitalist theorist would say this is largely because competition culls bureaucracy and other inefficiencies, and governments face few or no competitors for their services.

gov 2.0 expo – Day 3

Open City / Open 311, Jennifer Pahlka, Nigel Jacob, Philip Ashlock, Ben Berkowitz, Bryan Sivak

People who have ideas about service for citizens often approach Boston City Hall when they don’t know how to realise these things. The City of Boston helps them in the realisation and the apps created are also useful for other citizens. In Washington, citizens also have the opportunity to come up with ideas (e.g. improvement street signs and street crossings) that will eventually be realised by the city.

There is a lot of exchange between cities about open data and open city programmes. City can learn from each other when describing their best practices. Many cities have problems with the digital divide. Already the connection to the internet (speed) is dividing the pubic. Only people who have smart phones/iPhones can only use the new services provided for mobile devices. However, apps for smart phones are demanded and have to be developed. The biggest problem for open cities is to create participation but these services are not well accepted yet. Governments that want to establish an open city must establish open communication first. Reports from the public cannot be ignored by politicians, which means that improvement from inside is often more difficult than pushes from outside government’s institutions.

gov 2.0 expo – Videos

More videos from Gov 2.0 Expo – here

gov 2.0 expo – Day 2

Keynotes

Government as a Platform for Greatness, Tim O’Reilly
The iPhone was such a great success because it became a platform for 200,000 apps, only less than 20 apps written by apple. Government has become a platform for services. Are we able to face the challenges of the future? Climate change, financial reform, education, health care are some of the areas that we have to tackle in the future. The challenge of greatness is to tackle issuses that we not be able to win, but we have to try.

The Next Frontier: Embracing the Cloud, Linda Cureton, NASA
When the telephone was a new technology that might be used in public service, we had the same discussions as we have now, when establishing Gov 2.0 tools and services. Cloud computing is a technology that will be relevant in the future as it brings faster and cheaper solutions. Not everything is suited for the cloud; you must know what you need and should not follow the hype only. NASA members use social media in order to communicate what NASA is doing. It is a way to bring people and ideas together. Your customers will use these technologies with or without you, so you have to be there too.

gov 2.0 expo – Day 1

Navigating the Maze, Carolyn Lawson, CA

In 1920’s the state of California discussed if phones should be established; questions raised: We don’t need it as everything woks fine and people are satisfied with the services. How can we controll what is being said on the phone. Does the telephone only support the rich? – Now we cannot go back to a time before the telephone.

Government in the future will be open; it’s already there. Policies have to be ready for new ICT tools. Twitter is a very useful tool now, but would have been ignored according to set policies. Policies shall help government moving forward.

Governor of CA likes to twitter, but officials couldn’t read it because it was blocked. So they couldn’t read messages of their own boss. In CA driving lessons had to be cut in school, now there is full curriculum available on YouTube. By now it got 9 mio views.

Nachtrag Microsoft Behördenkonferenz

19. Und 20. April 2010, Hotel Linsberg Asia

http://www.microsoft.com/austria/events/behoerdentagung2010.mspx