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The agenda for this conference is outlined below.
The conference programme will include presentations by speakers drawn
primarily from public authorities, with a prominent participation of government
ministry officials from various EU countries as well as from the European
Commission. The focus is on concrete plans, policies and actual implementations
of Libre Software and open standards.
There will be a spotlight on case studies – among others, a presentation
on the European Regional Innovation Award-winning gnu/Linux policies of
Extremadura by Regional Minister Luis Millan Vazquez de Miguel. Successful
strategies will be presented for the large-scale migration and implementation
of Libre software in government – including the German Federal Government’s
Migration Guidelines.
Most of the presentations will be organised in three topical sessions
on:
- national and EU-level strategies and experiences (chaired by Agnès
Bradier, deputy head of the e-Government Unit, European Commission)
- local government strategies and results (chaired by Wilbert Stolte,
Vice-mayor of Den Haag)
- interoperability and open standards (chaired by Bernhard Schnittger,
acting head of IDA, European Commission)
Programme Summary
(for a detailed programme, click
here)
| Start |
Topic/Title |
| 08h00 |
Registration, coffee |
| 09h00 |
Welcome
Rishab Ghosh
FLOSSPOLS
project leader, MERIT, University of Maastricht
Keynote presentations:
Frans Nauta
Secretary
of the Innovation Platform chaired by the Dutch Prime Minister
Colm Butler
Director,
Information Society Policy, Department of the Taoiseach (Prime Minister),
Ireland
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| 10h00 |
Focus session: Free software: Why? The Extremadura case
Luis Casas Luengo
Director,
FUNDECYT, Government of Extremadura, Spain |
| 10h30 |
Focus session: Free software: How? German Federal Government
migration plan
Gregor
Lietz
EDS
(Federal Interior Ministry contractor for the Migration Guide), Germany |
| 11h00 |
Session 1: Experience at the European and national level
Chair:
Agnès Bradier
E-government
Unit, European Commission
Mark
Bressers
Government’s OSOSS Programme,
The Netherlands
Christian Hardy
Ministry
of Economics, Finance and Industry, France
Thomas Myrup Kristensen
Ministry
of Science, Technology and Innovation, Denmark
Rolf Theodor Schuster
Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, Germany
Giovanna Sissa
Osservatorio
Tecnologico of the Ministry of Research and Education, Italy
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| 13h00 |
Lunch (provided by conference) |
| 14h00 |
Session 2: Experience at the regional/local level
Chair:
Wilbert Stolte
Vice-Mayor,
City of Den Haag, The Netherlands
Alasdair
Mangham
London
Borough of Camden, United Kingdom
Flavia
Marzano
Union
of Italian Provinces, Italy
Mauro
Solari
Deputy
President, Province of Genova, Italy
Jan
van de Straat
City
of Haarlem, The Netherlands
Robin
Weissenberger
City
of Vienna, Austria
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| 16h00 |
Coffee Break |
| 16h30 |
Panel 3: Interoperability and open standards
Chair:
Bernhard Schnittger
IDA,
European Commission
Barbara Held
IDA,
European Commission
Mark Bressers
Programma
OSOSS, The Netherlands
Doug Heintzmann
IBM
Phil Zamani
Novell
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| 18h00 |
Closing session |
| 18h30 |
Cocktail reception |
| 19h30 |
Conference ends |
Lunch will be provided and a cocktail reception is planned, to facilitate
the informal interaction that is one of the most valuable parts of a successful
conference. |
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EU2004
Held in coordination with the Dutch
Presidency of the EU
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