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DI Eberhard Binder Hradec Kralove 29/30. 3. 2004
eRights Charter
What is TeleCities?
•TeleCities is the major European Network of cities committed to leadership in the Information and Knowledge-based Society
• Established in 1993 as a EUROCITIES’ sub-network, TeleCities is open to democratically elected city governments as well as to business and scientific partners
•TeleCities provides a platform of over 100 local authorities from 20 different
European countries sharing experience and developing practical solutions to
achieve an Inclusive Information Society
• Its aim is to promote eGovernment and eCitizenship at local level to ensure that
all citizens can equally gain from the benefits of the Information Society
TeleCities Presidency & Steering Committee
President Barcelona
Vice President Naestved
Steering Committee Members (14)
Amaroussion • Antwerp • Helsinki • Kingston upon Hull Cologne • Marseille • Nice •
Siena • Stockholm • The Hague • Vienna • Prague (Observer)
TeleCities Members
Other Local Authorities (101)
Amsterdam • Bari • Belfast • Berlin • Bilbao • Birmingham • Birkirkara • Bologna • Bonn • Bradford • Bremen
Bristol • Brussels Capital Region • Camden-London • Cannes • Cardiff • Copenhagen • Cuenca •
Edinburgh Eindhoven • Espoo • Frankfurt • Frederikshavn • Gdansk • Genova • Gent • Gijón • Girona •
Glasgow Göteborg • Grenoble • Grosseto • Hagen • Heraklion • Jena • Jun • Katowice • Koper • Leeds •
Leeuwarden Leipzig • Lille • Linköping • Linz • Lisbon • Liverpool • Livorno • Lodz • Lyon • Madrid •
Manchester Metz Milan • Modena • Montpellier • Munich • Münster • Nantes • Naples • Newcastle •
Nottingham • Nuremberg Oulu • Ostrava • Palermo • Porto • Reus • Rijéka • Rome • Ronneby • Rotterdam
• Sabadell • Salerno St Petersburg • San Sebastian • Seville • Sheffield • Siena • Southampton •
Strasbourg • Tallinn •Tampere Terrassa • Thessaloniki • Totana • Tranås • Turin • Turku • Utrecht •
Valencia • Valladolid • Vantaa Venice Viladecans • Vilafranca del Penedès • Vilnius • Waterford • Yalova
• Zaragoza
TeleCities Members
Business Members (8)
apc Interactive • Clip Card • Fabasoft AT Software • GoPro Development
Master Metropolis • Oracle • Schweers • Sun Microsystems
Other Organisations (3)
CSP-ICT Research Center
CIPAL (Centre of Informatics for the Provinces Antwerp and Limburg)
ITOSZ (National Association of National Settlements)
Number of Members per Member State - date 2004
TeleCities Services to the Members
• Policy development and lobbying the European Agenda to
ensure that the positions of cities are taken into account
• Information provision to members (eNewsbrief, website…)
• Exchange of experience, transfer of know-how. Enforced co-
operation and networking with South European and CEE cities
is pursued
• Development and management of projects relevant to the
members and the network
Policy Development
Place the city related aspects of the developments
brought about by the Information Society, higher on:
• the EU agenda (regular dialogue and more)
• national governments agenda (national branches)
• local political level (local decision makers)
Exchange & Networking
• The organisation of events, from large conferences to
project-related technical workshops, four times a
year, as well as the activities of the TeleCities
Working Groups, will support the exchange
• As for the networking, the main objective is to help
cities learning from each other through the exchange
of information and experience, and facilitate the
transfer of knowledge
TeleCities Events in 2004
“Urban Impacts of the Information Society: Facts, Fiction and Policies?”
17-19 March 2004, The Hague - Final conference connected with the MUTEIS projects (on the impact of ICT in the urban areas)
- Quality of content and presentation of the final results of the MUTEIS project
“Flexible Citizen in a knowledge based city”2-4 June 2004, Ronneby - Adequate access to public services- Trust and confidence- Life long learning
TeleCities Events in 2004
“Knowledge based Economy” 29 Sept- 2 October, Gijon
Presentation of the results of the « Foster the Knowledge based Economy » Working Group
“Cities for a new perspective on social and economic prosperity” 11-13 November, Vienna
TeleCities AGM Contribution to EUROCITIES Conference
TeleCities Working Groups
• Share experiences and practices
• Transform these experiences into ideas, guidelines and
recommendations for future policies (e.g. 6th FP for Research
and Technological Development)
• Accomplish a range of surveys to provide Knowledge of the
different issues using the more than 120 member-cities as a
source of information
• Set-up project initiatives
TeleCities Working Groups
Four main WGs related to future vision for cities
• Foster the Knowledge based economy
• Overcome the barriers to the development of the Information
Society
• Ensure Information knowledge society rights for citizens
• Promote the modernisation of local Public Administrations trough
eGovernment
TeleCities Projects
TeleCities participates directly in EU funded Projects at the benefit
of its Members:
• MUTEIS (Macro-economic & Urban Trends in Europe’s
Information Society)
• FLOSS-POLS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software - Policy
Support )
• AUXILIA (A European environment for the integration of Youth
Disable in Education )
• INTELCITIES (Intelligent Cities)
TeleCities Special Activity
eCitizenship for All Initiative in cooperation with Deloitte
• eCitizenship for All Survey: annual benchmark survey into the state-
of-the-art of eCitizenship for All (Re-engineering, eLearning,
eDemocracy, eSecurity) amongst its members
> Creation of a Knowledge Base for TeleCities Members
• eCitizenship for All Award: recognition of best local projects amongst
participating cities in each of these eCitizenship for All Challenges
Winners of the eCitizenship For All Awards
• Category eLearning and Inclusion
– City of Helsinki – “Nettimanula” Project
• Category eDemocracy and Community Building
– City of Tampere – “Participation Palette” Project
• Re-engineering of Local Public Administration
– The London Borough of Camden “Home Connections Choice-Based Lettings”
Project
• Category eSecurity
– City of Bremen – “Bremen Online” Project
TeleCities Coordination Office (TCO)Brussels
Tel: +32 2 552 08 68Fax: +32 2 552 08 89
e-mail: telecities@eurocities.be
http://www.telecities.org
TeleCities Contact Details
Policy Development
• the EU agenda (regular dialogue and more)
• national governments agenda (national
branches)
• local political level (local decision makers)
Place the city related aspects of the developments
brought about by the Information Society, higher on:
Policy Development
TeleCities has developed its own vision for the cities
Knowledge-based City
Main topics:
• Foster the Knowledge based economy
• Overcome the barriers to the development of the Information
Society
• Promote the modernisation of local Public Administrations trough
eGovernment
• Ensure Information knowledge society rights for citizens (eRights)
IS and the role of local authorities
Local authorities have a key role to play in the
development of an Inclusive Information
Society
• Closest to the citizens
• Providers of services
A Charter of European eRights…..
………is the direction cities are working towards
a successful IS !
WHAT IS IT?
It is a framework of rights……….for all members of society to gain from the benefits of the
Information Society…….
INSTRUMENT for local public decision-makers to develop
policies and services all aiming at the Lisbon goals – tailored to
the territorial needs
a CITIZEN-ORIENTED approach to develop an Inclusive
Information Society at LOCAL and EUROPEAN level
Charter of European eRights
• Rights to accessibility
• Rights to education and training
• Information rights
• Rights to participation
Accessibility rights
• Guarantee access to broadband – public policyeg. Broadband network of public access points
• Ensure security and user protection – confidence in ICT
Education and Training rights
• Rights to training for all to enable people to effectively
benefit from services and information through ICT
• Stress on tailored training for teachers and specific
groups
Information rights
• Accessibility to user-friendly, highly understandable, complete, diversified, up to date, transparent public information
• Citizens personalise their relation with an innovative networked public service
Participation rights
• Right to a transparent Public Administration at all
levels of decision making - eParticipation
• Benefit from a Public Administration that is committed
to fostering citizen participation and strengthening
civil society
What to do with the Charter….
• at the LOCAL level – relevant community and institutional stakeholders in order to adapt it
• at the EUROPEAN level – aiming at future pan-European frameworks
It will be further promoted
DI Eberhard BinderCIO
City Of Vienna Chief Executive Office -ICT Strategy and Management
E-Mail: binder@mdi.magwien.gv.atTel: +43-1-4000-75011
Fax: +43-1-4000-99-75011
http://www.wien.at