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eGovMoNet: eGovernment Monitor
Network |
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Project duratation: 2008 - 2010
Description:
Harmonise the measurements to speed up the improvements of
eGovernment services
eGovMoNet is a European Thematic Network to stimulate
development and take-up of good-practice for eGovernment
measurement of user-satisfaction and impact.
eGovMoNet is establishing a sustainable community (across
academia, industry, and public agencies) engaged in an active
dialogue and innovation brokering, facilitated by periodic face-to-face
interactions during open workshops or bench-learning sessions,
and by steady remote collaboration. eGovMoNet is reviewing
national eGovernment measurement frameworks to ensure that they
provide a reliable measurement instrument, covering all critical
areas, incl. impact and user satisfaction, and test the methods
and tools, in particular automated large scale assessment tools.
An effort is made to streamline the efforts across Europe to
achieve the highest possible degree of comparability among the
national benchmarks. Good implementations will be shared and
actively promoted through both the network’s internal and
external dissemination channels, such as the EU’s ePractice
portal.
All eGovMoNet activities are opened to all interested parties
and the results will be developed under an open licence,
ensuring the ease of further development and reuse. The network
is demonstrating the benefits of sharing and provide effective
collaboration routines to support a sustainable operation of the
eGovMoNet community beyond the duration of the project. List of
reports and articles on eGovMoNet project development:
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Rural-eGov: Training SMEs of
Rural Areas in Using e-Government Services |
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Duration: 24
months
Starting date: October 2006
Description:
Rural-eGov is a collaborative
European project funded by the Leonardo da Vinci programme and
focused on improving the uptake of e-Government services in
rural areas across Europe.
The
project will analyse the needs of small and medium enterprises
(SMEs) in the rural areas of Wales, Greece, Germany, Poland and
Slovenia who have different types and levels of e-Government
services and deployment. It will look at the degree of awareness
within rural SMEs of such services and review their status in
the participating countries.
A
vocational training curriculum will also be developed in order
to help the target SMEs use and exploit e-Government services.
The curriculum will adopt a blended learning approach, using a
combination of ICT based learning, as well as more traditional
forms of learning such as seminars etc. Innovative and relevant
e-learning content will be developed that will support various
training scenarios which will be tested with rural SMEs. In
addition, a Web based observatory will be designed which will
provide a collection and categorisation of e-Government services
that can support rural SMEs. As part of the project
deliverables, a set of policy recommendations will also be
developed for EU agencies, National Governments and Rural
administrations.
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6th Framework EU Projects |
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eGOVRTD2020 -
Roadmapping E-government RTD 2020 |
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Duration: 15
months
Starting date: January 1, 2006
Description:
The
eGovernment roadmap project aims at identifying and
characterizing the key research challenges, required
constituency, and the implementation model for a comprehensive
European initiative on holistic and dynamic government 2020. The
vision is to transform the European Government landscape into a
coherent community anticipating customer needs and leveraging
the potential of the diversity and innovativeness ofpublic
agencies, and transforming the Union to the world leading
knowledge society. The project will develop visionary scenarios
for eGovernment research 2020 and a detailed roadmap for the
transformation process. This will include measures for research,
development, demonstration, implantation, dissemination,
promotion, and assessment, trading and standardization. |
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ITAIDE
- Information Technology for Adoption and Intelligent Design
for E-Government |
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Duration: 54
months
Starting date: January 1, 2006
Description:
One
of the great challenges for European governments is solving the
paradox of increasing security in relation to international
trade, while at the same time reducing the administrative
overhead carried by commercial as well as public administration
organisations involved in the business of trade. It is vital to
obtain and use timely information of business transactions and
relate it directly to the passage of goods, services and people.
This information gathering is very costly for organisations,
business and public administration. Finding the right balance
between control and cost of information gathering is the key to
increase competitiveness locally, nationally and internationally.
ITAIDE innovates the redesign of systems leading to a
fundamental simplification of taxation and customs procedures,
while providing greater control, security, transparency and
accessibility to data for the needs of public administration,
business and citizens. ITAIDE integrates and strengthens
European research for innovative modern government by enhancing
service offerings and disseminating good governance practice
through increased security and controls, while commensurately
employing intelligent ICT to reduce administrative load burden.
ITAIDE offers the standardisation of interfaces to taxation and
customs systems across Member States as a tangible response to
the Lisbon agenda, facilitating the free movement of goods
within the internal market and reducing the impact of tax and
customs compliance costs for business. Organisations interfacing
with standard systems obtain internal efficiencies through the
piggy-back principle, while well defined interfaces with public
administration drive simplified and coherent back office
development. This then supports interoperability with other
business, contributing to a positive and beneficial network
effect built around standard approaches sponsored by public
administration. |
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mGBL
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mobile Game Based Learning |
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Duration: 36
monshs
Starting date: October 2, 2005
Description:
The number of people using mobile devices is growing quickly.
Mobile penetration rates reach nearly 100% in some target groups.
Mobile technologies offer new opportunities to support
information processes in general and specifically learning
processes. Currently, the efforts to apply mobile technology to
learning are increasing. There are technology as well as
pedagogically driven approaches. The mobility of learners, the
accessibility via mobile devices, the independence of time and
place, broadband access via mobile devices and new approaches
for accounting like data flat rates etc. are driving forces for
mlearning.
But there is a lack in services where users see real added value
and which are reflecting the needs of users. There are some
examples of successful mobile learning applications but there is
no sufficient research on interactive game based learning using
mobile devices, specifically mobile phones.
The project mGBL addresses this shortfall. It intends to develop
innovative mobile game based learning services which base on the
combination and application of existing technologies but also
reflects the further technological development in the mobile
sector. The mobile game based learning approach of the project
addresses mainly the user group of young people who in general
have high relation to mobile technologies. But the developed
learning models and also the services shall be adoptable also
for other target groups. The project is based on theoretical
approaches and practical experiences in collaborative elearning
and game based learning.
The research and development processes are organised iteratively
with the involvement of potential users from the very begin of
the project. Therefore user partners from 4 different European
countries are involved in the consortium who will be involved in
the research and development processes. The content of the
services developed in the project will reflect the metalevel of
educational advice services. |
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SEAMLESS -
Small Enterprises Accessing the Electronic Market of the
Enlarged Europe by a Smart Service Infrastructure |
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Duration:
30 months
Starting date: January 1, 2006
Description:
The
SEAMLESS project studies, develops and experiments an embryo of
the Single European Electronic Market (SEEM) network where a
number of eRegistries/Repositories (RRs) are started up in
different countries and sectors. Distinctive features are:
- Addressing Craft & Trade (C&T) companies through the
respective mediators (chambers of commerce, entrepreneurial
associations, local development agencies, ASPs).
- Focusing on two sectors, Textile (TEX) and Building &
Construction (B&C) that are relevant to C&T companies and
present overlapping areas (e.g. fabrics for tapestry).
- Starting up experimental RRs in both EU-15 and new member
states (NMAS) and establishing interactions between them based
on a proper collaboration framework.
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adopting eBusiness solutions, the target companies present
figures lower than those of larger enterprises and increasing at
a slower pace. The situation in NMAS, where the percentage of
C&T is even larger than in EU-15, is generally worse, with
significant differences between countries. The SEEM vision is
towards a web-based marketplace where companies can dynamically
collaborate without cultural and technological constraints. The
SEEM allows an objective comparison of profiles and offers of
company of any size and location, and this could open the
eBusiness space to the many small companies providing high
quality products and services at lower cost that now risk to be
left aside from the electronic market. The main project
activities are devoted to define a collaboration framework and
proper business models, realise evolving sectoral ontologies,
develop a technological infrastructure and a number of
applications and services on top of it. Five eRegistries are
experimented, in Poland and Slovenia (B&C sector) and in Spain,
Slovakia and Romania (TEX sector).The Consortium includes 15
members, as RTD performers, software developers and mediators.
The resources, in terms of effort and costs, are well-balanced
between EU-15 and NMAS partners. |
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VE-Forum |
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Duration:
36 months
Starting date: October 1, 2003
Description:
VE-Forum is a
community driven initiative funded by the European Commission.
The Founding Members bring together the mix of research,
practitioner & technical expertise necessary to support this
community.
The Vision
VE-Forum.org will provide a community platform for everyone
active in the arena of networked organisations.
Press Release 1
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Contact:
Uros Hribar, M.Sc. |
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Initiative: |
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ALADIN - ALpe ADria university INitiative |
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Universities, desiring
to strengthen the friendship and cooperation between them,
recognising the importance of developments in electronic commerce,
and the information economy have reached following understandings:
The Universities will create an international network, at regional
level, sharing a common ideas and knowledge in teaching and research
activities in the field of e-commerce.
The intention of the cooperation is to create mobility of students
and professors, imposing common lectures, creating virtual teams of
students from different Universities and professors lecturing at
different Universities, in order to harmonize with global and
international activities of e-commerce.
Participating universities:
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University of Corvinus Budapest,
Hungary |
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University of Graz,
evolaris Researc Lab,
Austria |
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Technical University of Košice,
Faculty of Economics,
Slovakia |
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University of Maribor,
Faculty of Organizational
Sciences,
eCenter,
Slovenia |
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University BW München,
International Academic Research
and Education Institute – CeTIM,
Germany |
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Novi Sad Business School,
Serbia & Montenegro |
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University of Economics,
Prague, Czech |
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University of Rijeka,
Faculty of Maritime Studies,
Croatia |
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University of Trieste,
Italy |
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University College Dublin,
Department of Management Information Systems, |
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Centre for Information, Technology & Organisation (CITO),
Ireland |
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University of Klagenfurt,
Austria |
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University of Ljubljana,
Slovenia |
The platform used to
develop a common curricula -
Oracle iLearning.
http://www.eAladin.org |
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Past projects: |
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Train the trainer: educating independent
e-business instructors for SMEs
Grant Programme 2005 – Action n° 20 |
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The project
objectives were to:
• Intensifying
recognition of e-invoicing practice in Slovenia
• Activating SME support network for implementing use of
e-invoicing practice
• Ensuring cooperation of faculties and other expert
institutions with implementing e-invoicing practice to SME's
• Sophisticated training for independent e-business advisors
through SME support networks. To improve the access of SMEs to
e-business related knowledge, practical skills and technology.
• Ensuring use of new solutions from field of e-business in area
of Slovenia – specifically e-invoicing
• Support SME support networks to improve the quality of
knowledge transfer to SMEs on e-business matters
• Improve the knowledge base and the quality of advice of the
e-business instructors operating at grass root level
• Promote cooperation between regional/sectoral SME support
networks and world class e-business training programmes, with a
view to achieve more efficient training, with a more tangible
impact for the final target audience, i.e. SMEs.
Project flyer I,
Project Flyer II
Activity report
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ENLARGE develops and
delivers customized executive development training programs.
Additionally, the project generates further awareness among SME
executives in Eastern Europe by applying a hands-on,
participative eStrategy methodology. The preparation of Eastern
European Case Studies will serve the needs of the regions in
understanding the opportunities and challenges of eBusiness in
their own environments.
Contact:
mag. Uroš Hribar |
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IST Mentor |
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IST Mentor and IST
Mentor+ enables a wider participation in the IST Program of the
Candidate Countries and New Member States, by developing a
networked group of proficient IST multipliers, whose task will
be to enhance building awareness of the IST Program and to
assist potential proposers in submitting high quality proposals.
Contact:
mag. Uroš Hribar |
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eMarketServices |
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The
objective of this project by eMarket Services is to develop and
maintain a European online portal, serving as a knowledge
exchange on business-to-business electronic marketplaces. The
portal will contain neutral and reliable information, which will
guide SMEs in selecting the most appropriate and trustworthy
e-marketplaces and business partners.
This will contribute to making e-commerce an even more important
tool for European SMEs. The portal will
provide interactive services and structure information
surrounding electronic marketplaces, business partners and
e-commerce in general. eMarket Services receives co-funding by
the European Commission/DG Enterprise beginning January 2004.
At the end of 2005, the EU project has finished. The active
partners from Norway, Sweden, Spain, The Netherlands, Portugal
and Australia will co-fund and continue the project in next
years.
The eCenter remains
the National Contact Point for Slovenia.
Contact:
Dr.
Andreja Pucihar |
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