ISSS/LORIS 2004eStrategy & cooperation 1 e-Strategy and cooperation among cities Jaroslav Šolc Prague City Hall, IT Department

ISSS/LORIS 2004 eStrategy & cooperation 1

e-Strategy and cooperation

among cities

Jaroslav Šolc

Prague City Hall, IT Department


Overview

• Cooperation

• Why?

• International

• National

• What next?

• Prague - eStrategy and Profile


Why this session?• Local and Regional Information Society – CITIES!

• ISSS/LORIS big event in CEE (7th), CZ+international

• 2000 first international event – TeleCities, 2001 GCD ...

• 2004 EU enlargement, conf. V4+

• Prague actively participates• member of TeleCities since 2001, role in SC – relations

with CEE cities (supported by Vienna)

• role in CZ associations

• Increasing role of LG (democracy development), IT strategies, benchmarking, EU enlargement

Networks of cities, V4+ Capital Cities


Why cooperate?• Cities – similar situation, interests, solutions

• Exchange of experience (visions, implementations, financing, organisation, projects)

• Learning by promotion of the best practices

• Evaluation, comparison, benchmarking

• Common procedures, lobbying (EU and national strategies, legislation...)

• Common priorities and projects

Declaration on Local and Regional Information Society Development


International networksCITIES / Inf. society

• TeleCities (partner of Eurocities) CZ: Prague, Ostrava

• Global Cities DialogueCZ: Hradec Králové, Praha, Jihlava, Olomouc, Ostrava, Plzeň, Pardubice, Hluboká

• Major Cities of Europe – IT Users Group

• ... UDMS, networks of excellence....

ASSOCIATIONS

• ELANET (CEMR), ERIS@

CZ experienceAssets: learning from each other, visions, policies, projectsBarrirs: membership fees, travel costs, time resources, language skills,


Networks in the Czech Rep.

• Union of Towns and Communities of the Czech Rep.• IT Committee (KISMO), 10 decisionmaking + 8 advisory mem.• 3 of 20 Statutory cities represented, + other members of e-mail

conference• meetings ca each 1-2 months, e-mail conf., info+consultations

• Association of regions of the Czech Rep. • IT Committee, CIO from all 14 regions of the Czech Rep.• meetings ca each 3 months, workshops, e-mail conf,

info+consultations+common projects supported by the Ministry of Interior of the CR

Both IT Committees cooperate (e-mail conf., common meetings, stands towards national gov. etc.)

Professional networks: CAGI, CSSI, SPIS and others.


What next?

• Increase effective cooperation

• Declaration on Local and Regional Information Society Development (eV4+/LORIS)

• L+R

• EU 15 + CEE (NAS)

• Strategies, common objectives, implementation activities, projects (structural funding, EU programmes for IS)

Where we are – where we want to go? ISSS/LORIS 2004: SET OF DOCUMENTS eStrategies, IT profiles, benchmarkingASSOCIATIONS + CITIES


Presentations

• Networks: TeleCities (eRights Charter), GCD, MCE

• Project TeleCities + Deloitte: eCitizenship for All

• V4DIS, V4+Slovenia Capital Cities

profile doc. pres. eCit.fA 2003

Bratislava + - -

Budapest - - +

Ljubljana - + -

Prague + + +

Warsaw - + -


Websites: networks www. telecities.org www.globalcitiesdialogue.org

www.majorcities.org


Websites: V4+ Capitalswww. bratislava.sk www.budapest.hu

www.praha-mesto.cz

www.ljubljana.si

um.warszava.pl


Prague


Prague - profile

• Population: 1,16 mil.

• Area: 496 km2

• Administration- 1 of 14 regions of the Czech Rep. - municipality (capital, statutory city)

• Internal structure: 57 districts- elected bodies, authorities- 22 of them specila role (state adm.)

• Districts: self-gov., authonomy in IT

• Organisations established by the City

Infrastructure: Municipal network MePNet


Prague City Hall - IT

• Prague City Hall (MHMP)

• ca 2 thous. employees (50 deps in 9 sections)

• director – represents IT in the Council Board

• IT Department (INF MHMP)

• in the section of internal services

• units- director of the IT Dep. - strategic office*- data management and services- SW applications maintenence- network maintenance- end-user services- el. signature

Active cooperation:EU: - TeleCitiesCzech Rep.:- Union of Towns and Communities - Association of RegionsEvents:ISSS/LORISUDMS ....


eStrategy, projects

eStrategies:- IT Strategy (2001), update* (2004)- IT security policy* (2004)- eGovernment policy* (2004)

projects, e.g.:- Infrastructure - Document management- Reingeneering- eGov: Web, portal, call centrum- eLearning- Specific systems: GIS, municipal property, environment

Details: see the conference proceedingseStrategy and Profile

Challenge: EU Structural FundingPrague: JPD (SPD) for objectives 2 and 3


Jaroslav Šolc [email protected], tel. +420 236002682

Prague City Hall, IT Department

Thank you for your attention!

Questions – at the end of session

Documents

ISSS/LORIS 2004eStrategy & cooperation 1 e-Strategy and cooperation among cities Jaroslav Šolc Prague City Hall, IT Department