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Irish eGovernment eSymposium in association with eircom

30 September 2008, Croke Park Conference Centre

Following the success of our Centre of Excellence peer to peer learning seminars, the Irish eGovernment Awards is bringing together leading international and Irish eGovernment experts and practitioners for a one day eSymposium on Tuesday, 30 September 2008.

The eSymposium will provide public sector professionals, from both central and local government, with a forum for the exchange of visions, ideas, practice, results and experience.

Advancing eGovernment: The Next Challenge
Conference Chair - John Bowman

9.00am:	Registrations and Coffee
9.45am:	Opening Address - Maeve Kneafsey, Managing Director, Elucidate
Keynote Presentations:
9.50am:	Building a Better Future – Bill McCluggage, Director of the Delivery & Innovation Division, Department of Finance & Personnel, Northern Ireland
	Mr. McCluggage outlines how we can work together to build a better future for all, delivering new citizen channels and examines the role that technology and new working methods play in that.
10.20am:	eParticipation in the Era of Web 2.0 – Dr. Julia Glidden, Non-Executive Director, AIDC European Centre of Excellence
	Are you considering how Web 2.0 truly is revolutionising eGovernment and eParticipation? Dr. Julia Glidden offers an insight into how changing citizen expectations of government service delivery has dramatically affected our lives and in ways politicians and policymakers have not even begun to grasp.
10.50am:	Improving Local eGovernment Policies – Katja Kaunismaa, Project Director, The Baltic Institute of Finland
	Would you like to learn from the results of a European-wide, 3 year project? Katja Kaunismaa outlines the experience gathered and lessons learnt from the implementation of eCitizen services across Finland, Denmark, the Baltic States, Russia, Italy and the UK. This session will look at the cultural issues involved as well as how technology can improve local policy.
11.20am:	Q&A
11.30am:	BREAK
11.50am:	The Power of Information – Alex Butler, Director of Transformational Strategy, Central Office of Information, UK
	How can governments use web 2.0 to open up and share information with citizens? These are just some of the issues dealt with by Alex Butler who will present on the UK Government's evolving strategy for government online. This will include the way in which the UK is embracing new technology including web 2.0, and the 'Power of Information' strategy which encourages both the opening up of government data to online reuse and better partnerships with online communities.
12.20pm:	The European eRegion – Case Study on Estonia – Hannes Astok, Member of the Estonian Parliament
	Estonia, often considered the leading e-technology region in Europe, has implemented eGovernment services since 1994. Hannes Astok illustrates the initiatives that have been conducted to enable electronic transactions in all areas of public life and how this has facilitated collaboration both between the public sector and private enterprise but also between central and local government.
12.50pm:	Q&A
1pm:	Headline Sponsor Address – Valerie Hunt, Director, Central Government, eircom
1.05pm - 2.05pm	LUNCH
Breakout Sessions:
2.05pm - 4.35pm:	Three breakout sessions will be run in the afternoon from 2pm to 4.35pm. Each breakout session will last 45 minutes and will be repeated 3 times giving all delegates a chance to sit in on all the sessions. The session will comprise of a panel of experts and is designed to be interactive and facilitate participants’ questions. The sessions will include a short presentation by the panellists and then be open to the floor for discussion. The topics and panellists are: Online Marketing Damian Ryan, Results International Group (Chair); Margaret McElroy, Marketing Manager, Revenue Online; Sharon Donnery, Head of Consumer Info, Financial Regulator. Mobile Technology Philip O’Reilly, Head of IT, Department of Agriculture Niamh Minnock, Public Sector Manager, Lenovo Ireland Local Government Dr Eileen O’Leary, Webmaster, Cork City Council. Dr. John Donovan, Head of Enterprise & Research Development Services (ICT, Arts and Media), Dublin Institute of Technology
4.35pm:	Conference CLOSE

Find out more about the Speakers

eSymposium Times

Registrations will open at 9am with the opening address at 9.45am followed by the morning keynote presentations. Three rotating breakout sessions will be held in the afternoon with the conference closing at 4.35pm.

Book Early

Early Bird tickets at €335 are available until 12 September 2008. After that date tickets will be €395 so book early!

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