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  9.00 Registration and delivery of documentation

  9.30   Wellcome

Vladimir de Semir, Town councillor of Knowledge City in the Barcelona City Council

E-GOVERNMENT AND THE EUROPEAN UNION

Introduction: Manuel Castells, Chairman.

Keynote speaker:
ERKKI LIIKANEN, European Comissioner for Enterprise and Information Society.

  10.30   E-GOVERNMENT: PUBLIC SERVICES ONLINE

Carolin Welzel, Project Director, State and Public Administration Division, Bertelsmann Foundation (Begix Project).
Stefano Rodotà, President of the Italian Data Protection Comission.
Moderator: Lluís Olivella, director of the Municipal Institute of Information Technology (IMI).

   
  11.30   Coffee break
  12.00   E-GOVERNANCE: CITIZENS, INTERNET AND DEMOCRACY

Steve Cisler: Community Networking Consultant.
Pekka Himanen, Director of the Berkeley Center for the Information Society.
Steve Du Mont, Global VP Public Administration Cisco Sys.
Moderator: Joan Rangel, Mayor of Caldes d'Estrach. Delegate president of internal issues, treasury and planning of the Diputació de Barcelona.

  13.00   Best practices

Tampere (Finland): Jari Seppälä
Seattle (U.S.A.): Jim Compton
Stockholm (Sweden): Monica Berneström
Berlin (Germany): Horst Ulrich
Barcelona (Spain): Marta Continente
Moderator: Teresa Serra. President of the Information Society Commission, Parliament of Catalonia and Telecities.

   
  14.15   Lunch
  16.30   E-ADMINISTRATION: THE INTERNAL CHANGE

Geoff Mulgan, Director, Prime Minister's Forward Strategy Unit, United Kingdom.
Bernard Benhamou. Political Science, Institute d'Etudes Politiques, Responsible for the Internet Education at School Department of the Ministry of Education.
Patricia Riley, Director of the Annenberg School of Communication. University of Southern California. Los Angeles.
Ernest Maragall, President of Presidential Commission and Finance of the Barcelona City Council, Vice-chairman of LOCALRET.

   
  17.30   Coffe break
  17.45   "THE LOCAL NETWORK STATE: BARCELONA AND BEYOND"

Prof. MANUEL CASTELLS and ESTEVE OLLÉ, UOC (Open University of Catalonia)

  18.30   Closing speech:

JOAN CLOS, Mayor of Barcelona


 
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Services available in the Pedrera for the participants:
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