The 6th Samos Summit was held in Doryssa Hotel, in Samos Greece on June 29 - July 3 2015. The overall topic of the Summit was On ICT-enabled Governance : “Beyond Government 2.0”. Specific focus in this year’s summit was given to the following 4 areas of ICT-enabled governance, aiming at delivering high level insights on the new roadmap for research and practice:
- Information (big, open and linked data, information processing and visualization for governance)
- Infrastructures (cloud infrastructures, machine intelligence, pervasive computing)
- People (collaborative decision making, social media in governance, social computing)
- Organisation (legal issues, process re-engineering, interoperability guidelines and standards)
Also, specific attention was given to Smart Cities examples and practices, followed by a workshop on Samos smart city / smart island possibilities, with the collaboration of Samos Municipality officials.
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| Samos 2015 Summit participants at Doryssa Resort |
In conjunction with the 6th Samos Summit, the 3rd International Summer School On Open and Collaborative Governance was held, with the participation of students from European Union, the Balkans and US.
More information on the agenda and participants of the Samos 2015 Summit can be found at http://www.samos-summit.org
