4QC – Status of the Conference eGovernment Working Group Helsinki 14.-15.9.2006

4th Quality Conference for Public Administrations in the EU 27.-29.9.2006, Tampere, Finland Previous conferences Lisbon 2000 Copenhagen 2002 Rotterdam 2004

4QC in a Nutshell 3 days 1200 participants 14 keynote speakers 15 panel discussions ”Agoras” 40 agora speakers 15 agora facilitators 39 Best Practice workshops 78 Best Practice cases 36 Best Practice facilitators

The Themes of the Conference Building Sustainable Quality Strategy Citizens Performance Knowledge The Programme is built according to these themes

Examples of Agoras Strategy Are we playing the same game? – ICT as part of delivering strategy Performance Is ICT everywhere – Expect in productivity statistics?

Examples of Best Practice cases Public e-procurement programme – Portugal Enabling efficiency and transparency through information technology governance – European Commission E-office for Clients – Poland Implementing a common project management methodology for IT projects – Luxemburg

Examples of Best Practice cases E-government and Pension Insurance – Slovenia Vineyard register of La Rioja – Spain National Land Information System – Estonia Digital Handwriting Recognition – Netherlands

CAF Centre Promotion and introduction of CAF 2006. Presentations about the different ways of disseminating CAF. CAF Works -publication will be promoted. The regional CAF project will be presented. The CAF –handbooks and other tools from different MSs will be presented. CAF China project will be presented. CAF e-tools are promoted. EIPA will present their CAF-training. Future CAF -events (2007) will be promoted.

Stands at the 4QC National Stands: The deadline for reserving National Stands was the end of June. 19 member states have reserved a stand. 5 organisational stands have been reserved.

4QC –gathering information Best Practices Descriptions on the website A publication for participants At the website after 4QC Key notes Material at the website after 4QC Agoras The presentations at the website

Further use of the material from the Agoras A draft report will be written from all agoras by Finnish MoF Comments and viewpoints to the drafts by other participants A net publication later at the 4QC site

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