The Visegrad Group for Developing Information Society information portal includes amongst the publications and other information the report on the Fifth VDIS Conference that was held during April 2008 in the Czech Republic. The report was published on the 25 June 2008.

Conference Report Content

Introductory word Welcome to the V4DIS conference

Programme

• V4DIS 2008 Conference Agenda
• Information
• Congress Centre Aldis
• Committee of the V4DIS 2008 Conference

Conference Papers

• Development of Information Society in European Comparison
• Institutional Background of eGovernment in V4 Countries
• Some aspects of E-Government in The Czech Republic and the other countries of the Visegrad
• Group Development of the Information Society and eGovernment in Poland (Evaluation Draft)
• Selected Actual eGov or eHealth EU Multi-country Projects in V4 Countries.
• TRANSFER-EAST: G2B Twinning Project in V4 Countries
• JuniorCrest
• Golden Crest 2008–the competition’s tenth edition
• ZlatyErb.sk 2007 and Data Centre of Towns and Municipalities

Peter Druga. the ePSIplus National representative for the Slovak Republic reports on the ePSIplus Thematic Network. The report states:

“ePSIplus Project (focus on PSI re-use implementation)

ePSIplus is a Thematic Network, funded by the eContentplus programme , to support the implementation of the European Directive on Public Sector Information (PSI) Re-use, in the period leading up to its review in 2008.

The ePSIplus portal provides access to a wide range of knowledge emerging in this field, across all EU member states, of key interest to public and private sector stakeholders, together with an opportunity to engage in debate on key issues. In this way, ePSIplus is setting out to provide a onestop shop for key information on PSI re-use across Europe including news, reports, legal cases, good practices and benchmarking on the progress of legislation by means of our country scorecard, all searchable by thematic area, country and free text terms.

The ePSIplus Network is a community rich in knowledge, experience and motivation. This community includes organisations and individuals who are stakeholders from every European country in PSI re-use, from the public and private sector. This group participates in ePSIplus discussions, receives news and participates in ePSIplus expert meetings. The Network also involves 25 European national representative organisations and a number of European Associations participating in promoting the Network and offering local insights and knowledge. The Network co-ordinating team is responsible for planning, development and co-ordination activities and includes expert analysts with a focus on specific ePSIplus themes.

Register on the site (top right hand corner of web pages) to receive the regular ePSIplus newsletter, as well as to access site facilities such as new content notifications for news items as they are posted. Registration also provides access to interactive dialogue on PSI issues via the ePSIplus forum. The information on the portal is freely available for browsing, downloading and re-use, unless otherwise stated.

Implementation of the project: 2006–2008 Project partners in V4: Cities on Internet Association (Poland), EPMA (Czech Republic), Hungarian Association of Content Industries (Hungary) and APEL Association (Slovakia).Project webpage: www.epsiplus.net “