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EISCO 2008 conference: Moving forward the Digital Local Agenda - Naples, 25-27 September 2008

25-09-2008

Introduction

The Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) together with ELANET network (CEMR) is co-organising its 7th conference on local and regional governments in the information society. EISCO 2008 will take place in Naples, Italy, from 25 to 27 September 2008.

Description

The conference "Local networks and inter-regional cooperation: Moving forward the Digital Local Agenda" will assess the progress of the main European networks of local and regional govenrments in implementing the Digital Local Agenda (DLA), a strategic plan to develop the informatics society in cities and regions. The conference will be organised around five themes:

Collaboration among innovators from the public and private sector in the field of Information and communication technologies (ICT);
Using ICT to build networks for service delivery in local communities;
"e-services" models and WEB 2.0 deployment;
Building digital capacity in local administrations;
Progress of the digital local agenda: methodologies used and first lessons learnt.

This last session will be coorganised by the ELANET, the network on information society, and the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR). An implementation model of the Digital Local Agenda will be presented during the session.

A set of recommendations shall be approved in Naples, aiming at strengthening the Digital Local Agenda process and engaging as many local and regional governments as possible with its implementation.

Programme

Location

Links

For more information or to register, please visit the conference website

Files

Download the conference brochure (PDF, Eng, 1 MB)

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