World e.gov Forum – October 12th and 13th 2011, Paris – Program

October 4th, 2011

 

Wednesday October 12th 2011

 

09:00-10:00
Webinar
The public « app store »

Nicolas Conso, chief officer « Innovation », direction générale de la Modernisation de l’Etat
Philippe Bournhonesque, Software Strategy, IBM France

Event recording

 

10:00-11:00
Webinar

Open Data

Séverin Naudet, Chief executive « Etalab », French Prime minister office

Event recording

 

14:30-17:30
Hearing of the candidates

E-democracy awards

- The e-democracy awards jury 2011
- The e-democracy awards The 9 finalists

Issy-les-Moulineaux City Hall

 

18:00-19:30
Plenary

Democracy on line

From the Arab Spring revolutions to the public debate, Web stood out as the most successful direct democracy tool. Survey of its most beautiful success.

Introduced by André Santini, former french minister, founder of the World e.gov Forum, MP, mayor of Issy-les-Moulineaux

Phil Noble, PoliticsOnline founder
Micah Sifry, Personal Democracy Forum co-founder
Benoit Thieulin, La Netscouade founder
Arnaud Dassier, l’Enchanteur des nouveaux médias founder
Hugo Passarello Luna, Argentinaelections.com Director

Campus of Microsoft France

 

Thursday October 13th 2011

 

13:30-16:00
Webinar
e-government : « World Tour Innovation »

A world tour of the best agile government practices, fully in TelePresence, from India, to Brazil through Europe : how IT have made some public services more efficient. Read more

Moderated by Anne Lange, Internet Business Solutions Group Director, Global Public Sector, Cisco

Agenda (Paris Time)
13:30-14:00
Jaime Quesado (Lisbon)  – General Manager of the Innovation and Knowledge Society of Portugal
Presentation title: E-gov: a new contract of trust     
14:00-14:30
Christian Rupp (Vienna) – Federal Executive Secretary E-Government Austria   & Spokesperson Federal Platform Digital Austria
Presentation title: Latest innovations in digital public services    
14:30-15:00
Prakash Kumar (New-Delhi) - Director Public Sector, Internet Business Solutions Group Cisco Systems, Inc.
Presentation title: Addressing public services fundamental needs  
15:00-15:30
Bernard Benhamou (Paris) – Managing Director of the Interministerial Delegation on Internet usage in France
Presentation title: Next generation of mobile services to citizens     
15:30-16:00
Vincent Ducrey (Rio) – New Media Advisor to the French Minister of National Education, Youth and Voluntary
Presentation title: Serving Gen Y users, a case study about jeunes.gouv.fr

 

World e.gov Forum awards ceremony

Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (invited)

17:30-18:30

Conference
How to improve the digital relation to the public ?

Franck Riester, member of the parliament, France

18:30

Awards ceremony

 

Iceland is crowdsourcing its new constitution

crowdsourcing
June 16th, 2011

After the huge impact of the financial crisis on its banking system and government, Iceland is writing a new Constitution through crowdsourcing. Citizens can share their ideas on a dedicated website and the major social networks as to what the new document should contain.
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France Announces Etalab, National Data Portal

Severin Naudet
March 1st, 2011

The French Prime Minister Fillon has announced the creation of Etalab a programme that is to establish data.gouv.fr, a national government data portal to “freely distribute raw data in usable formats”.
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Egypt Revolution Tracked on Social Media Map

Egypt map Social media
February 14th, 2011

GIS software developer Esri has posted a map of Egypt that follows the “social conversation” as the country’s historic political revolution continues. Tweets, YouTube videos and Flickr photos are plotted on the map
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Online crime maps for all streets in England and Wales

Uk Crime maps
February 11th, 2011

Detailed maps providing a monthly snapshot of crime and antisocial behaviour on every street across England and Wales are published for the first time today.
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UK universities to adopt cloud shared services

Data center
February 8th, 2011

The Higher Education Funding Council of England (HEFCE) has announced that it will put forward £12.5 million (US$20 million) towards a new cloud computing shared initiative for universities, futuregov.asia reports.
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DK: Increase of medical consultations via email

santé 2.0
February 7th, 2011

According to the Digital Society 2010 report published in January 2011 the number of medical consultations over email has almost quadrupled.
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Syrians call for protests on Facebook and Twitter

Syrians for Tunis
February 2nd, 2011

Syrians are organizing campaigns on Facebook and Twitter that call for a “day of rage” in Damascus this week, taking inspiration from Egypt and Tunisia in using social networking sites
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Google ‘Speak to Tweet’ keeps Egypt on Twitter

Speak to Tweet
January 31st, 2011

Protesters in Egypt are turning to a new Google tool to enable them to keep tweeting, following the country’s government-enforced internet blackout.
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UK: Government outlines Data Corporation plans

Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office minister said that even where there are no significant overall cost differences between open and proprietary products, open source will be selected "on the basis of its additional inherent flexibility".
January 13th, 2011

Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude and business minister Edward Davey said the move, planned for this year, would provide an unprecedented level of easily accessible public information and help to make public services more efficient.
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