Citizens Information Conference 22 June
Added: (Mon Jun 14 2004)
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DIARY RELEASE:
Reminder: seamlessUK Citizens Information conference on 22 June at the International Convention Centre, Birmingham. Spaces are going fast, so to book contact fay.bartlett@essexcc.gov.uk. There is no charge for this event.
Registration is at 10am, conference closes at 430pm.
Speakers include: Julian Bowrey, ODPM; Mary Rowlatt, Essex County Council; Chris Batt, MLA; Tony Teehan, National Standards Body for local government; plus speakers from Norway, Greece, MultiKulti and The Open University’s Knowledge Management Institute.
Press who would like to attend should contact Catherine.dhanjal@theansweruk.com
FULL DETAILS:
The seamlessUK end of project conference will examine the future horizon for Community Information, looking forward to the way in which individuals and local communities will interact with government and with each other by employing developments in technology over the next 5-10 years.
The event will complement, develop and illuminate the growing emphasis on the role which Community Information can play in implementing e-government (IEG) targets and highlight its potential for developing services which offer citizens more opportunities for engagement, participation, communication and interaction with government and within their local communities.
The conference will discuss a provisional ‘roadmap’ for research, development and innovation in the area of Community Information standards and solutions, looking forward to a time when machine-to-machine interfaces, semantic web services, integrated location based components and Virtual Reality visualization, profiled to the individual or community group’s needs and interests, come together to deliver content and services interactively to a wide range of everyday devices which can be used intuitively by everyone.
Audience: anyone working at a strategic, technical or practitioner level in e-government/community information who wants to look at, think about and plan for the future.
10.00am Coffee and registration
10.30am Welcome and introduction
10.45am Innovation and Community InformationSpeaker: Julian Bowrey, e-Government Programme Manager, Office of the Deputy Prime MinisterContent: Reviews the existing e-government community information landscape: Council websites; partnerships; CMS; and search engines. Describes the mandatory IEG target for Community Information: Will describe the development of Directgov and the key role for community information in increasing user take up of e-services. Analyses the main thrusts and content of the current ODPM ‘e-innovations’ programme and other relevant developments.
11.15am seamless discovery of community informationSpeaker: Mary Rowlatt, Strategic Information Manager, Essex County CouncilContent: Describes the current development of the seamlessUK solution and standards, moving on to the possible role of new technologies in community resource discovery, automated metadata, terminology management and Web Services in improving retrieval.
11.40am Joining up of the community information componentsSpeaker: Gunnar Urtegaard, Sogn and Fjordal County, NorwayContent: Describes and demonstrates an integrated community information service drawing on multiple and complex data sources, pulling together a variety of component solutions, including location based/GI technology and delivering outputs to a range of different devices on demand.
12.05pm Break
12.30pm The Cultural CommunitySpeaker: Chris Batt, Chief Executive, MLAContent: Describes the importance of access to cultural resources in the life of the community, covers issues related to the need for improvement in their discovery and presentation and integration within an e-government framework and a Common Information Environment.
12.50pm The Multilingual CommunitySpeaker: Dan McQuillan, MultiKulti project Content: Covers the state of the art in multilingual content development and access, the importance of standards for a multicultural internet, and promising developments in language technology, drawn from the experience of a community-driven multilingual web service.
13.10pm Lunch
14.30pm Semantic Web Services and Community InformationSpeaker: Dr John Domingue, Deputy Director, Knowledge Media Institute, Open UniversityContent: There are two significant issues related to the successful deployment of web services in an e-government context. Firstly, how to enable multiple independent agencies each with their own IT infrastructure, policies and work processes to interoperate without central control. Second, how can we manage the mismatch between the requests posed by citizens (“What benefits can I get now that my elderly mother has moved in?”) and functionalities provided by online services (“We provide rent rebates to War Widows if the total household income is less than X”). This talk will outline how semantic web services can address these issues.
14.50pm The Ambient Community 2010Speaker: Dr Costis Dallas, Chairman and Senior Researcher, Critical PublicsContent: Device heterogeneity - moving from latest developments in mobile phones, handheld devices, digiTV to pervasive computing, devices all around the home, car, school, workplace, voice and gesture recognition and VR/visualisation.
15.10pm Break
15.30pm The Standards HorizonSpeaker: Tony Teehan, National Standards Body for local government Content: The role of the National Standards Body. The position of a single taxonomy for local government.
15.50pm Plenary discussion and roundup – Can we identify a roadmap for community information?Chair: Rob Davies – seamlessUK Project Manager
16.30 Close
About seamlessUK
seamlessUK is the development of a national structure of community information portals – a locally branded citizen’s gateway for each council partner. seamlessUK is nationally scaleable and hospitable to all major content (information and services) providers and standards. The project software enables multilingual users and visually impaired citizens to access sources of information and complies with e-GIF and e-GMS standards. seamlessUK partners include: councils from Bexley to Croydon, Kent, London Borough of Lewisham and North Lincolnshire.
www.seamless-uk.info
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
Catherine Dhanjal, TheAnswer Ltd, Tel: 0208 655 0953/0794 166 9925
Catherine.dhanjal@theansweruk.com
Date: 14 June 2004 Ref: TA-217