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| Uni Agder prof., at the Kristiansand Arts Theater |
The
eleventh conference on Electronic
Government (eGOV 2012) sponsored by IFIP was held in beautiful
Kristiansand, Norway on the first week of September 2012. The conference provided a highly interactive
and professional forum for exchanging research concepts, progress and results. As in the past, IFIP EGOV featured refereed
paper presentations, invited keynote presentations, high‐level discussion
panels, workshops and a PhD Colloquium.
Kristiansand
is really a very nice, for some too quiet, small city in a very green and blue
environment (ideal for a Greek, if it was warmer at winter). But so “cosy” and so close to sailing at open
sea …
The
first day started with listening to the keynote speech of Jon Hovland, PhD,
Advisor to the e-Governance unit, Ministry of Administration, Reform and Church
Affairs, Norway. Jon gave a broad and
inspiring view of the next plans and actions for an open, collaborative administration
in Norway, and, administering the …
ENGAGE project workshop on open data
- Anneke Zuiderwijk, Delft University of Technology: “Benefits and
impediments of challenges for the use of open government data”.
- Yannis Charalabidis, University of AEGEAN: “The ENGAGE platform for open
data: Characteristics and Challenges”. After the ENGAGE platform presentation participants
were asked to provide answers to questions on the functionality and the
usability of the ENGAGE tools.
- Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology: “Open data and the need
for transforming government”, on the type of transformations that are needed
in governmental organizations to make the provision of open government data successful.
Analytical questionnaires on open data requirements and a lot of comments
and suggestions were collected from the workshop participants.
View of the participants at the Kristiansand Castle
The evening reception at the Castle, hosted by the Mayor and the Universiy of Agder, was attended by many participants.
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| With the awards comittee at the celebration |
Some
good news we had during the dinner on the second day, that was held in the
magnificent and nicely placed Kristiansand music/arts theater:
Our paper “Issues and guiding principles for opening governmental judicial research data”, by Anneke Zuiderwijk , Marijn Janssen, Ronald Meijer, Sunil Choenni, Yannis Charalabidis and Keith Jeffery won the Best Paper Award, for the Category “most promising practical concept”
The Best 2012 Paper Award
The next day, our paper on the NOMAD eGovernance Project on Non-moderated Crowd-sourcing was presented at the ePart conference. Finally, the plane left before 06:00, still night in Kristiansand …
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| Morning lign-up from Kristiansand to the world ... (05:30) |
