[GSDI Legal Econ] [SDI-Europe] eGovernment InteroperabilityCampus 2007

[Walter de Vries]

Roger,

I'm glad you have noticed this too. I've been going through many
articles in egov and egov-related conference proceedings and found very
little reference to spatial data infrastructures, let alone any special
sessions, clusters or tracks. If fact, I was aiming to report on that
during  digital governance conference in May of this year. In fact, the
same applies to most egov related policies on a global scale. I am yet
to find any specific reference to the spatial part of infrastructures in
any general national egov policy. This can mean two things: either the
SDI is not really an issue in the egov community - where increasingly
most of the focus seems to be completely different issues like
edemocracy, eparticipation - or there are hardly any SDI researchers /
paper submissions on these egov conferences.

Walter de Vries   

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Subject: Re: [GSDI Legal Econ] [SDI-Europe] eGovernment
InteroperabilityCampus 2007

Note once again that there is no specific link/topic listed in the
"papers wanted" section that would deal with spatial information
infrastructures, even though significant volumes of eGovernment data are
also spatial. I say 'also' because for many purposes, the spatiality is
not important, but for others it certainly is. We get back to the value
of the spatial component or attribute of information depending upon its
use for specific reporting/monitoring tasks. There continues to be a
lamentable disconnect between many (most?) eGovernment initiatives and
their spatial information counterparts or components.

Roger Longhorn
ral at alum.mit.edu

Kate Lance wrote:

> http://www.egovinterop.net/SHWebClass.ASP?WCI=ShowDoc&DocID=2736&LangI
> D=1 
> <http://www.egovinterop.net/SHWebClass.ASP?WCI=ShowDoc&DocID=2736&Lang
> ID=1> "eGovernment Interoperability Campus 2007"
> Paris, France, October 9-11, 2007
> Since the late 90's, the European Union and its Member States pursue 
> the strategic objective of transforming their Public Administrations 
> to become more efficient and centered on the delivery of ICT-enabled 
> services to citizens and businesses. The cornerstone of this strategy 
> is to help developing the framework, tools and environment for 
> interoperability between existing systems and applications, in order 
> to foster the development of public services that would be 
> cross-organisational, cross-level, cross-border, transparent, 
> integrated, secure, decentralised and available anywhere at anytime.
> The main aim of this third eGovINTEROP conference is to create a forum

> for discussion between the research community, technology players and 
> public institutions. The conference will focus on all aspects of 
> interoperability in eGovernement, both from technical as well as from 
> semantic, organisational and socio-economic perspectives, and will 
> discuss the progress of the various European initiatives in the field.
> The Campus is expected to gather about 500 participants primarily from

> the European Union.
> Conference
> The conference is calling for papers to be submitted by _April 6, 
> 2007_. Broad topic areas are:
>
> - Platforms for eGovernment interoperability
> - Interoperability frameworks
> - Standardisation initiatives in eGovernment
> - Security of open eGovernment services
> - Transport middleware for government applications
> - Managing governmental business processes
> - Pan-European Government services
> - Local and regional eGovernment services
> - Change management in networked governments
>
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