More than 80 high-level ICT experts and decision makers from 20 countries participated in the international Samos 2012 Summit on “Open Data and Interoperability for Governance, Industry and Society”, that took place from 2nd to 6th July 2012 in the island of Samos.
The Samos 2012 Summit on Open Data and Interoperability
was co-organised by the University of Aegean, the Greek Interoperability Centre
of the National Technical University of Athens, the ENGAGE eInfrastructures
project (co-funded by the European Commission) and the ENSEMBLE Support Action
(under the auspices of the Future Internet Enterprise Systems cluster of DG
Connect), in order to foster international cooperation and strive for a new
research and practice agenda in open data, collaborative governance, enterprise
interoperability and future internet systems.
With an emphasis on Open Data, Interoperability
and a new participative governance model for the public sector, the enterprise
and within a connected, inclusive society, the Samos Summit was a first-class
opportunity to see, interact with and influence cutting-edge European ICT
research projects and initiatives.
The Samos Summit participants came from more
than 20 countries, representing research and development centres of Google,
IBM, Microsoft, Intrasoft International, Engineering, TXT, Whitehall Reply,
Athens Technology Centre, Fraunhofer, Poznan supercomputing centre, Cycorp and
more. Representatives from several
collective bodies and organizations joined the discussions and workshops of the
Summit including W3C, ISA (European Commission unit for interoperability), EGI
(European grid infrastructure), the Hellenic Parliament and Greek, Austrian,
Slovenian, Spanish, Italian public sector
/ eGovernment units. See the List of Participants for more information.
The key messages of the Summit, as presented in
the Samos Declaration, put the emphasis on the
following actions:
- Raise the legal and
administrative barriers which prevent the spreading of open data - Support research on
metadata, core vocabularies and visualization, as new ways of discovering and
using open data - Promote innovation and
entrepreneurship on open data applications for the public - Support open data use by
science, in a global effort to reach evidence-based decision making on societal
problems - Promote scientific
approaches in solving interoperability issues, and especially the
Interoperability Scientific Foundations - Strive for open data and
interoperability “killer-apps”, in order to illustrate the power of ICT tools
towards wider audiences - Foster collaboration among scientific
communities, industry, SMEs, public sector and citizens, towards an ecosystem
where the immense potential of open, interoperable data will be exploited
For more information and all the presentations
and workshops of the Samos 2012 Summit visit: www.samos-summit.org
Samos 2012 Participants, outside Karlovassi Town Hall.
(with Uni Aegean students / researchers dancing team)
Participants at the Conference Site - Doryssa Hotel
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