Cloud Infrastructures and Interoperability Track in MCIS 2010

The Track on Cloud Infrastructures and Interoperability was succesfully conducted on 12 September 2010, as a part of the 5th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems - MCIS 2010 in Tel-Aviv, Israel.

The track targeted novel approaches, methods, practices and tools for achieving interoperability in the provision of Digital Public Services, resulting into a significant increase of service quality for citizens and businesses, through utilizing cloud infrastructures. Specific importance was placed in multidisciplinary approaches, combining organizational, legal, semantic, technical and participative elements of interoperability, providing relative support by advanced information systems. The papers of the track were the following:

Policy Processes Support Through Interoperability With Social Media George Gionis - National Technical University of Athens, Yannis Charalabidis, Euripides Loukis - University of the Aegean,



Extracting Normative Content From Legal Texts Daniela Tiscornia and Tommaso Agnoloni - The Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques of the Italian National Research Council (ITTIG-CNR)



A Distributed E-Learning Service  For Remote Areas Anna Mavroudi, Thanasis Hadzilacos - Open University of Cyprus, Demetra Egarchou - Research Academic Computer Technology Institute



Chairpersons: Yannis Charalabidis - University of the Aegean, Ralf Klischewski German University in Cairo

ICT 2010 - Networking Session: Research Roadmap on ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling

The aim of this session is to generate insight, feedback and consensus on the research roadmap on ICT for governance and policy modelling. It will explore issues such as societal modelling, simulation, visual analytics, social networking and mass collaboration. Participants can become involved in the development of the roadmap and join the validation community by discussing research related to ICT for governance and policy modelling, what research activities need to be carried out, and which aspects are essential for supporting novel governance practices. Discussions will also focus on what applications could be envisaged by 2020.

Session Agenda:



Part A: The CROSSROAD Roadmap for ICT-enabled Governance 14:00 – 14:30

- The CROSSROAD Project Dimitris Askounis (NTUA)

- Roadmap presentation David Osimo (Tech4i2), Yannis Charalabidis (NTUA)



Part B: Discussion and Deliberation 14:30 – 15:00

Discussion and rating on the Roadmap Challenges by participants, facilitated by the CROSSROAD Consortium members.

Part C: Next activities and future opportunities 15:00 – 15:30

- Antonis Ramfos, INTRASOFT International

- Yael Dubinsky, IBM Research Haifa

- Richard Wilson, IZWE.com

- Next steps, closing Yannis Charalabidis (NTUA), David Osimo (Tech4i2)

You may comment, propose issues and follow developments at:  http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/cf/ict2010/item-display.cfm?id=2844

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CROSSROAD Group in Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=2594136



Printable version of the agenda here.