DI Eberhard Binder Hradec Kralove 29/30. 3. 2004

eRights Charter

What is TeleCities?

•TeleCities is the major European Network of cities committed to leadership in the Information and Knowledge-based Society

• Established in 1993 as a EUROCITIES’ sub-network, TeleCities is open to democratically elected city governments as well as to business and scientific partners

•TeleCities provides a platform of over 100 local authorities from 20 different

European countries sharing experience and developing practical solutions to

achieve an Inclusive Information Society

• Its aim is to promote eGovernment and eCitizenship at local level to ensure that

all citizens can equally gain from the benefits of the Information Society

TeleCities Presidency & Steering Committee

President Barcelona

 Vice President Naestved

 Steering Committee Members (14)

 Amaroussion • Antwerp • Helsinki • Kingston upon Hull Cologne • Marseille • Nice •

Siena • Stockholm • The Hague • Vienna • Prague (Observer)

 

TeleCities Members

Other Local Authorities (101)

 

Amsterdam • Bari • Belfast • Berlin • Bilbao • Birmingham • Birkirkara • Bologna • Bonn • Bradford • Bremen

Bristol • Brussels Capital Region • Camden-London • Cannes • Cardiff • Copenhagen • Cuenca •

Edinburgh Eindhoven • Espoo • Frankfurt • Frederikshavn • Gdansk • Genova • Gent • Gijón • Girona •

Glasgow Göteborg • Grenoble • Grosseto • Hagen • Heraklion • Jena • Jun • Katowice • Koper • Leeds •

Leeuwarden Leipzig • Lille • Linköping • Linz • Lisbon • Liverpool • Livorno • Lodz • Lyon • Madrid •

Manchester Metz Milan • Modena • Montpellier • Munich • Münster • Nantes • Naples • Newcastle •

Nottingham • Nuremberg Oulu • Ostrava • Palermo • Porto • Reus • Rijéka • Rome • Ronneby • Rotterdam

• Sabadell • Salerno St Petersburg • San Sebastian • Seville • Sheffield • Siena • Southampton •

Strasbourg • Tallinn •Tampere Terrassa • Thessaloniki • Totana • Tranås • Turin • Turku • Utrecht •

Valencia • Valladolid • Vantaa Venice Viladecans • Vilafranca del Penedès • Vilnius • Waterford • Yalova

• Zaragoza

 

TeleCities Members

 Business Members (8)

apc Interactive • Clip Card • Fabasoft AT Software • GoPro Development

Master Metropolis • Oracle • Schweers • Sun Microsystems 

Other Organisations (3)

CSP-ICT Research Center

CIPAL (Centre of Informatics for the Provinces Antwerp and Limburg)

ITOSZ (National Association of National Settlements)

Number of Members per Member State - date 2004

TeleCities Services to the Members

• Policy development and lobbying the European Agenda to

ensure that the positions of cities are taken into account

• Information provision to members (eNewsbrief, website…)

• Exchange of experience, transfer of know-how. Enforced co-

operation and networking with South European and CEE cities

is pursued

• Development and management of projects relevant to the

members and the network

Policy Development

Place the city related aspects of the developments

brought about by the Information Society, higher on:

• the EU agenda (regular dialogue and more)

• national governments agenda (national branches)

• local political level (local decision makers)

Exchange & Networking

• The organisation of events, from large conferences to

project-related technical workshops, four times a

year, as well as the activities of the TeleCities

Working Groups, will support the exchange

• As for the networking, the main objective is to help

cities learning from each other through the exchange

of information and experience, and facilitate the

transfer of knowledge

TeleCities Events in 2004

“Urban Impacts of the Information Society: Facts, Fiction and Policies?”

17-19 March 2004, The Hague - Final conference connected with the MUTEIS projects (on the impact of ICT in the urban areas)

- Quality of content and presentation of the final results of the MUTEIS project

“Flexible Citizen in a knowledge based city”2-4 June 2004, Ronneby - Adequate access to public services- Trust and confidence- Life long learning

TeleCities Events in 2004

“Knowledge based Economy” 29 Sept- 2 October, Gijon

Presentation of the results of the « Foster the Knowledge based Economy » Working Group

“Cities for a new perspective on social and economic prosperity” 11-13 November, Vienna

TeleCities AGM Contribution to EUROCITIES Conference

TeleCities Working Groups

• Share experiences and practices

• Transform these experiences into ideas, guidelines and

recommendations for future policies (e.g. 6th FP for Research

and Technological Development)

• Accomplish a range of surveys to provide Knowledge of the

different issues using the more than 120 member-cities as a

source of information

• Set-up project initiatives

TeleCities Working Groups

Four main WGs related to future vision for cities

• Foster the Knowledge based economy

• Overcome the barriers to the development of the Information

Society

• Ensure Information knowledge society rights for citizens

• Promote the modernisation of local Public Administrations trough

eGovernment

TeleCities Projects

TeleCities participates directly in EU funded Projects at the benefit

of its Members:

• MUTEIS (Macro-economic & Urban Trends in Europe’s

Information Society)

• FLOSS-POLS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software - Policy

Support )

• AUXILIA (A European environment for the integration of Youth

Disable in Education )

• INTELCITIES (Intelligent Cities)

TeleCities Special Activity

eCitizenship for All Initiative in cooperation with Deloitte

• eCitizenship for All Survey: annual benchmark survey into the state-

of-the-art of eCitizenship for All (Re-engineering, eLearning,

eDemocracy, eSecurity) amongst its members

> Creation of a Knowledge Base for TeleCities Members

• eCitizenship for All Award: recognition of best local projects amongst

participating cities in each of these eCitizenship for All Challenges

Winners of the eCitizenship For All Awards

• Category eLearning and Inclusion

– City of Helsinki – “Nettimanula” Project

• Category eDemocracy and Community Building

– City of Tampere – “Participation Palette” Project

• Re-engineering of Local Public Administration

– The London Borough of Camden “Home Connections Choice-Based Lettings”

Project

• Category eSecurity

– City of Bremen – “Bremen Online” Project

TeleCities Coordination Office (TCO)Brussels

Tel: +32 2 552 08 68Fax: +32 2 552 08 89

e-mail: telecities@eurocities.be

http://www.telecities.org

TeleCities Contact Details

Policy Development

• the EU agenda (regular dialogue and more)

• national governments agenda (national

branches)

• local political level (local decision makers)

Place the city related aspects of the developments

brought about by the Information Society, higher on:

Policy Development

TeleCities has developed its own vision for the cities

Knowledge-based City

Main topics:

• Foster the Knowledge based economy

• Overcome the barriers to the development of the Information

Society

• Promote the modernisation of local Public Administrations trough

eGovernment

• Ensure Information knowledge society rights for citizens (eRights)

IS and the role of local authorities

Local authorities have a key role to play in the

development of an Inclusive Information

Society

• Closest to the citizens

• Providers of services

A Charter of European eRights…..

………is the direction cities are working towards

a successful IS !

WHAT IS IT?

It is a framework of rights……….for all members of society to gain from the benefits of the

Information Society…….

INSTRUMENT for local public decision-makers to develop

policies and services all aiming at the Lisbon goals – tailored to

the territorial needs

a CITIZEN-ORIENTED approach to develop an Inclusive

Information Society at LOCAL and EUROPEAN level

Charter of European eRights

• Rights to accessibility

• Rights to education and training

• Information rights

• Rights to participation

Accessibility rights

• Guarantee access to broadband – public policyeg. Broadband network of public access points

• Ensure security and user protection – confidence in ICT

Education and Training rights

• Rights to training for all to enable people to effectively

benefit from services and information through ICT

• Stress on tailored training for teachers and specific

groups

Information rights

• Accessibility to user-friendly, highly understandable, complete, diversified, up to date, transparent public information

• Citizens personalise their relation with an innovative networked public service

Participation rights

• Right to a transparent Public Administration at all

levels of decision making - eParticipation

• Benefit from a Public Administration that is committed

to fostering citizen participation and strengthening

civil society

What to do with the Charter….

• at the LOCAL level – relevant community and institutional stakeholders in order to adapt it

• at the EUROPEAN level – aiming at future pan-European frameworks

It will be further promoted

DI Eberhard BinderCIO

City Of Vienna Chief Executive Office -ICT Strategy and Management

E-Mail: binder@mdi.magwien.gv.atTel: +43-1-4000-75011

Fax: +43-1-4000-99-75011

http://www.wien.at