[Fsfe-ie] Announcement: Open Standards and Libre Software in Government, 18.11.2004, The Hague
Teresa Hackett
teresahackett at eircom.net
Tue Oct 5 20:01:32 CEST 2004
Announcement: Open Standards and Libre Software in Government
18 November 2004, Van Gogh Hall, Netherlands Congress Centre, The Hague,
The Netherlands
www.flosspols.org/conf/
Open standards and Libre Software are increasingly important to governments
around the world, and Europe leads in their adoption and promotion. The
most high-profile event of the European Information and Communications
Technology calendar, the IST 2004 conference, takes place in The Hague from
the 15th to the 17th of November. The conference “Open Standards and Libre
Software in Government” is held immediately afterwards, at the same venue
and in coordination with the Dutch Presidency of the European Union.
This conference will provide an unparalleled stage for discussing and
learning about the concrete plans, policies and actual implementations of
open standards and Libre Software by public authorities across Europe. The
conference will also stimulate discussion and debate on open standards and
Libre Software (as free software/open source is often known) in the design
and implementation of affordable, scalable and secure eGovernment services.
It will highlight achievements and landmark national initiatives and
discuss the challenges and priorities for furthering the use of Libre Software.
The conference delegates will be mainly from public authorities across
Europe, as well as from related businesses and community interests. Over
500 people are expected to attend.
The conference programme will include presentations by speakers drawn
primarily from public administrations, and there will be a prominent
participation of government ministry officials from various EU countries as
well as from the European Commission. The programme is organised in three
sessions on:
- the national and EU-level;
- the local and regional level;
- and interoperability issues.
There will be a spotlight on case studies - including a presentation on the
European Regional Innovation Award-winning gnu/LinEx policies of
Extremadura by Regional Minister Luis Millan Vazquez de Miguel. Successful
strategies will be presented for the large-scale migration and
implementation of Libre software in government - including the German
Federal Government’s Migration Guidelines
Confirmed speakers include:
- Agnès Bradier
Deputy Head, E-government Unit, European Commission
- Mark Bressers
Programma OSOSS, The Netherlands
- Christian Hardy
Chief of Information System Department, Forecasting directorate, Ministry
of Economics, Finance and Industry, France
- Barbara Held
IDA, European Commission
- Gregor Lietz
EDS (Federal Interior Ministry contractor for the Migration Guide), Germany
- Alasdair Mangham
London Borough of Camden, United Kingdom
- Arnold Reinders
Ministry of the Interior, The Netherlands
- Bernhard Schnittger
IDA, European Commission
- Giovanni Sissa
Osservatorio Tecnologico of the Ministry of Research and Education, Italy
- Mauro Solari
Deputy President, Province of Genova, Italy
- Rolf Theodor Schuster
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Germany
- Wilbert Stolte
Vice-Mayor, City of Den Haag, The Netherlands
- Jan van de Straat
City of Haarlem, The Netherlands
- Luis Millan Vazquez de Miguel
Regional Minister of Extremadura, Spain
- Robin Weissenberger
City of Vienna, Austria
The conference, held in coordination with the Dutch Presidency of the EU,
is partly funded under the European Union’s Sixth Framework Information
Society Technologies Programme through the FLOSSPOLS project at MERIT,
University of Maastricht, and a grant from the Dutch Ministry of Economic
Affairs. It is also supported by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and the
Dutch Government’s OSOSS Programme, as well as FLOSSPOLS project partner
Eurocities/Telecities. The primary corporate sponsor is IBM. The gold
corporate sponsor is Novell.
Participation in the conference is free but early registration is required
as places are limited. For more information and online registration, visit
the conference website at www.flosspols.org/conf/
For more information, or if you want a conference poster, contact:
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Project Leader, FLOSSPOLS,
MERIT/Infonomics, University of Maastricht,
PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, the Netherlands.
E-mail: conf at flosspols.org
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