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Jari Seppälä, 46, Communications Director of the City of Tampere, Finland.
Master of Science (Communication), University of Tampere.
Journalist for 10 years as a news reporter in a local newspaper and national tv-news.
Since 1987 a city communicator, specialized in media service, video production and the Internet. Head of information unit for the city of Tampere (200.000 inhabitants). Responsible for the city web services and Infocity-sub-project of the eTampere-program 2001-2005.
Has acted as the chairman for two committees founded by the Association of Finnish Local Authorities, one creating the good practise for municipal information and the other one guidelines for municipal services presented over the Internet.
A member of a committee on eGovernment (JUHTA) founded by Finnish Ministry of the Interior.
Project manager for the City of Tampere in a Tacis City Twinning project "Local Democratic Network", lead together with Bologna (Italy) and Nizhny Novgorod (Russia) in 1999-2001.
Several contributions for international conferences, publications and research projects on Internet services.
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