Troika Secretariat 2nd Meeting 19 May 2008 eGovernment Working Group Dr. Aleš Dobnikar

ACCORDING TO THE 49. DIRECTORS-GENERAL RESOLUTION ON eGOVERNMENT WG IMPORTANT CONCLUSION: The DG’s acknowledged the importance of the e-Government and are encouraging that work will be taken forward in the context of the network, bearing in mind the evaluation reorientation. 19. May 2008 TROIKA Secretariat eu2008.si

ACCORDING TO THE MTP 2008-09 for E-GOVERNMENT WG The main working areas for the next two years: Reduction of Administrative Burden Inclusive Government both with the vision: Customer and also Business Orientation (focusing on user centric services) 19. May 2008 TROIKA Secretariat eu2008.si

SLOVENIAN POLICY PRIORITIES IN eGOVERNMENT - Interoperability - eParticipation and eInclusion - Reduction of Administrative Burden - Support of i2010 eGovernment Action Plan and presentation of national progress 19. May 2008 TROIKA Secretariat eu2008.si

EUPAN E-GOVERNMENT WG Meeting under SI Presidency The eGovernment WG covered the following working topics: Further improvement of cooperation with other WG’s and organizations (OECD, Universities) Cross-border eServices (Slovenian Pilot project – presentation of the first results) Best practises and case-studies on eID (B, FI, PT) Learning Team for reduction of administrative burdens for citizens (focusing also on document of national approaches of stages of RAB) – already 18 countries participating Establishment of Centre for eGovernance Development - Further improvement of cooperation with other WG’s and other organizations we received information from other Working Groups. The representative of OECD presented us more global view at the eGovernment topic with a country strategy and approaches to improving user take-up and a new emerging common trends in eGovernment. An interesting presentation of so called Living-Lab organizations was from the representative of SLO University. Added values of the living labs are “better cooperation among people and institutions”, “fostering the innovative thinking”, “trying to overcome mental borders when actual borders in EU are dissapearing”. - Cross-border eServices (a Pilot project – presentation of the first results) covering the topic of interoperabilitiy we had a presentation from our representatives about the pilot project, of two pan-european services - which are developed in close co-operation with Austria, Estonia, Finland, Portugal (Those two services are: Announcement of temporary residence for students and registration of new single member company). - Best practises and case-studies on eID (B, NL, PT) Delegates presented us the case-studies of the Finnish implementation of similar two eID concepts with very different outcomes. The representative of Belgium shared with us the current situation of the STORK project (EU eID interoperability) which will presumably be starting at the end of May. The last case-study was the successful merging of 4 Identitity cards in 1 from Portugal (Citizen Card replaces ID Card, Taxpayer Card, Social security Card, National Health Service Card). - Learning Team for reduction of administrative burdens for citizens (focusing also on document of national approaches of stages of RAB) – already 18 countries participating We emphasized action-oriented concept of the newly formed LT , we also focused on document of national approaches of stages of RAB in EU countries. You will receive more detailed information about the LT from my colleague of the BR WG, Mr Matija Kodra. - Establishment of Centre for eGovernance Development 19. May 2008 TROIKA Secretariat eu2008.si

Centre for eGovernance Development - CeGD The Purpose Strengthen the regional cooperation on the area of development of the information communication technology within public administration. - Promote the development of the range of eGovernance programs within Southeastern Europe. The last but not least important topic of the eGov WG meeting was the presentation of the recently established Centre for eGovernance Development for South-eastern Europe. This was also one of the main reasons that we invited the representatives of Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia to participate and to observe the meeting. From May 1st the Centre has been fully operational. …..Its purpose is to ….. 19. May 2008 TROIKA Secretariat eu2008.si

The Stakeholders and signatories Government of the Republic of Slovenia - Ministry of Public Administration, Ministry of Economy Stability Pact European Foundation for Information Society and eGovernment (Spain) Microsoft (Slovenia) INA Academy of Thessaloniki (Greece) SRC.SI (Slovenia) Siemens (Austria) UNDP ….which signed the Memorandum of Understanding in creating the CeGD with Slovenia as the initial founder of the Centre and Stability Pact being the initiator. 19. May 2008 TROIKA Secretariat eu2008.si

The Interested Partners World Bank Switzerland Germany Austria Bulgaria EBRD UK France Italia Romania Norway Hewlett-Packard …..Who expressed their interest and potential support in participating in the activities of Centre…… 19. May 2008 TROIKA Secretariat eu2008.si

EUPAN E-GOVERNMENT WG Meeting on 21.-22. April 2008: And now regarding the attendance of the meeting. After the permanent decrease of participation of the group, we were glad to contribute to the new-found push of the group and proud to confirm the participation of 20 EU countries, together with 3 observing countries and representatives from EIPA and OECD. Meeting on 21.-22. April 2008: 20 EU countries + 3 observing countries (Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia) together with representatives from EIPA and OECD attended 19. May 2008 TROIKA Secretariat eu2008.si

E-government related events during Slovenian Presidency eGovernment Conference: 11. February 2008, Brdo IDABC Conference: 12.-13. February 2008, Brdo EUPAN eGovernment WG: 21.–22. April 2008, Brdo i2010 Conference: 13.-14. May 2008, Brdo eHealth Conference: 5.-8. May 2008, Portorož eGovernment days 19. May 2008 TROIKA Secretariat eu2008.si

E-government days in Slovenia 11.02.2008 and 12.-13.02.2008 Commissioner attended the Conference Mr Siim Kallas (Vice-President of EC and Commissioner responsible for Administrative Affairs, Audit and Anti-Fraud) Not forget to mention, Mr Siim Kallas, Commissioner and VP of the EC, attended the Conference and had a speech about Alliance with users and participated at the press conference. 19. May 2008 TROIKA Secretariat eu2008.si