Ministers agree eGov policies!

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Posted by ChrisCorbin on 18 Dec 2007

Brussels: 7th December 2007

The European Commission Information Society and Media - eGovernment & CIP Operations has published the Conference proceedings report for the Ministerial eGovernment Conference 2007 that was held in Lisbon on the 19th to 20th September 2007. Close to 1200 participants attended the conference. The conference was the fourth in a series:

Brussels in 2001
Como in 2003
Manchester in 2005

“The Portuguese Presidency of the European Union and the European Commission jointly organised the eGovernment Conference 2007 entitled Reaping the benefits of eGovernment. The goals of the conference were to take stock of and build on the achievements to date, accelerate further development and set directions for the coming years in relation to the i2010 eGovernment Action Plan.”

“The focus of the 2007 conference on better public services for growth and jobs, participation and transparency, social impact and cohesion and effective and efficient administration, with special emphasis on the local and regional level, aimed to illustrate the importance of eGovernment as building blocks for better public services.”

“Interoperability among Member States, reduction of administrative bureaucracy, public involvement in political processes and their increased transparency were unanimously approved as the main policy priorities for the coming years to push for the improvement of public services available to citizens and enterprises through the use of ICT.”

The next Ministerial eGovernment conference will be held in Stockholm in 2009.

Report Contents

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

2 The first day of the conference