11 January 2012

Registration opens for eGovernance R&D event

e-Forum members are invited to participate in the following event, to be held in Sheffield, United Kingdom, on 27 January 2012:

FP7 eGovernance and Policy Modeling projects: How to make cutting edge R&D accessible for real use, in a shorter period of time.

Venue: Showroom Workstation, 15 Paternoster Row, Sheffield, S1 2BX. The venue is a 2 minute walk from the railway station in the city centre.

Where helpful, we will use examples which will focus on sustainability/environmental policy for this event.

Aims:

  • To close the gap between the availability of cutting edge R&D in eGovernance and Policy Modelling and its take-up in local and central government. It will bring the new governance projects and those about to exploit their results into a collaborative environment.
  • To link the projects currently creating the best practice of the future with initiatives seeking to share current best practice, thus assisting with “exploitation” of the new initiatives.
  • To briefly assess how these initiatives may be of global benefit by examining how China may be encouraged to take a short cut to sustainable development and looking at joint approaches to China.


Attendees

Those involved in the European Union Framework Programmes (ie FP7 projects), those charged with spreading best practice and the policymakers and practitioners who would value advance knowledge of what will be available for them to use in the coming years.

Outline agenda

1. Introduction and background to the event: Baudouin de Sonis, Chief Executive of EU e-Forum

2. Presentations of what some current EU FP7 projects in the field of eGovernance and Policy Modelling are doing.  These will include:

  • The IMPACT Project – new tools using copyright laws as an exemplar; Professor Ann Macintosh, Professor of Digital Governance, Co-Director of the Centre for Digital Citizenship (The University of Leeds)
  • The CATCH Project–new tools in a carbon-reduction context; Dr Steve Cassidy. MRCMH, Edinburgh
  • The FUPOL project- new tools in a sustainable development context; South Yorkshire – EASY Connects


3. Presentations of two new Interreg IVC projects with South Yorkshire partners covering sharing of current best practice in environmental policy making.

  • RE-GREEN Project, in context of Sheffield sustainable development policy; Adrian Hacket, Building for Future, Sheffield
  • RENERGY Project; Ian Bloomfield, Durham County Council
  • Presentation of event to take place in China in July to share best practice in governance and establish strong future collaborations; Dr Shaun Topham, President EU e-Forum and EU-China e-Forum
  • Discussion covering opportunities for realising any synergies emerging between the various initiatives represented or for new initiatives; Dr Bridgette Wessels, ICOSS, University of Sheffield


The event will take place from 10am – 4pm. To reserve a place, email Dominic Tyerman at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

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