POZNAŃ CITY BASED ON KNOWLEDGE CHALLENGES OF INFORMATION SOCIETY Tomasz J. Kayser Deputy Mayor of Poznań Vilnius, 24 November 2003.

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INFORMATION SOCIETY IN POZNAŃ – CURRENT STATUS Excellent intellectual infrastructure:  22 public and private schools of higher education,  54 scientific institutes,  students (with a population of ),

INFORMATION SOCIETY IN POZNAŃ – CURRENT STATUS Outstanding specialists in the field of Information Society Technologies, including these working at:  Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center, (recently discovered protection errors (recently discovered protection errors in the Windows system), in the Windows system),  the Poznań University of Technology,  the Poznań Academy of Economics,  Moreover, issues related to the development of IS constitute a part of study curricula of IS constitute a part of study curricula at the Poznań University at the Poznań University

INFORMATION SOCIETY IN POZNAŃ – CURRENT STATUS cont. Excellent municipal network infrastructure POZMAN - Metropolitan Area Network and PSNC, its operator and City Hall’s partner in the implementation of IST projects:  network’s length: 220 km of optical fiber lines  technology: ATM 622 Mb/s and Gigabit Ethernet  43 scientific centers, network connects: public administration units (City Hall, Marshall’s Office, Office of the Wielkopolska Province), majority of hospitals, municipal institutions, commercial clients (e.g. Volkswagen, Wrigley, GlaxoSmithKline, banks)

INFORMATION SOCIETY IN POZNAŃ – CURRENT STATUS cont. First Hot-Spots in Poznań:  Poznań Ławica Airport  Kupiec Poznański Shopping Center  Hotels and mobile telephony outlets  Soon – The Old Market area

INFORMATION SOCIETY IN POZNAŃ – CURRENT STATUS cont. The “Polish Optical Internet” PIONIER Project developed by PSNC, i.e. Internet 2 - New Generation Internet, officially launched in Poznań- October 2003:  advanced applications, services and technologies for the information society: technologies for the information society: e-science, e-learning, e-content, e-government e-science, e-learning, e-content, e-government  connection to 21 Metropolitan Area Networks in Poland Networks in Poland  current 2.5 Gb/s connection to the pan- European scientific network (the fastest European scientific network (the fastest connection in Poland) connection in Poland)  up to 10 Gb/s by 2003

NEW TECHNOLOGIES USED FOR MUNICIPAL SERVICES AND ADMINISTRATION  Traffic Control System  New generation bus tickets tickets (SMS, electronic cards) (SMS, electronic cards)  Electronic Parking Fee System Fee System

NEW TECHNOLOGIES USED FOR MUNICIPAL SERVICES AND ADMINISTRATION cont. IT systems used by city administration:  8 locations linked by a corporate network  nearly 1,000 computers linked to the corporate network  integrated systems that support administration.

CITY HALL AND THE INTERNET Long-standing engagement of the City Hall in the development of IT systems and services available on the Internet  almost 150 Internet users at the City Hall  almost 70 persons who on-line feed Internet information resources Internet information resources  “Multimedia City Guide” MIM (from 1998), one of the largest Polish local government one of the largest Polish local government on-line information services: on-line information services: 3.6 GB, nearly 1,800,000 inquiries per month, 3.6 GB, nearly 1,800,000 inquiries per month, 17.5 GB of data sent per month GB of data sent per month.

CITY HALL AND THE INTERNET cont. Poznan Educational Service  specialist information and service portal run by the employees of the City Hall’s Department the employees of the City Hall’s Department of Education of Education  databases and information resources fed on-line  employment exchanges for headmasters, teachers and other employees working in the education sector (during 18 months of its operations, nearly 2,000 applications have been sent and nearly 500 persons found work at schools in Poznań).

CITY HALL AND THE INTERNET cont. Computer system for enrolment to post-gymnasium (secondary) schools:  the first in Poland integrated system for enrolment  93 schools and school complexes participating in the project in 2003 in the project in 2003  nearly 10,000 students included in the system  the enrolment process has been successfully completed (at the time of formal announcement completed (at the time of formal announcement of results, the students could check their of results, the students could check their results by logging into the system and results by logging into the system and entering their PESEL personal identification numbers) entering their PESEL personal identification numbers)  the smoothest and fastest completed enrollment process in Poland enrollment process in Poland

CITY HALL AND THE INTERNET cont. Service for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises  specialist information and service portal run by the employees of City Hall’s Department of Business Affairs, of Business Affairs,  databases and information resources fed on- line  complete set of forms allowing for online servicing of all procedures related with Business Register (from the launch of the service in August 2003, up to 20% procedures have been serviced via the Internet) via the Internet)

CITY HALL AND THE INTERNET cont. City Hall’s Public Information Bulletin City Hall’s Public Information Bulletin bip.city.poznan.pl: bip.city.poznan.pl:  information service forming a part of Multimedia City Guide launched on July 1, 2003 pursuant to the act on the access to public information  all public information is subject to statutory requirements  procedures and forms binding at the City Hall and its units  contact with all city institutions

PLANS FOR THE NEAREST FUTURE  new Internet services for residents  Public Internet Access Points based on the municipal public library network based on the municipal public library network  full archiving of electronic workflow  introduction of electronic signature software to on-line services on January 1, to on-line services on January 1,  Poznań Advanced Technology Incubator

Poznań searches for partners to implement the programs aimed at the development of information society

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