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> Monday 5th July
   
8.30 h Registration and conference documents
   
9.00 h
Official opening of the talks
 
  JOSEP BARGALLÓ First Minister, Generalitat de Catalunya.
 
Chair
ERNEST MARAGALL Secretary of the Government, Generalitat de Catalunya
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  Opening speech and workshop introduction
MANUEL CASTELLS IN3 Researcher, Catalonia Open University (UOC).
   
9.30 h
Theme 1 >> E-governance as if citizens matter
 
   
  Chair
RAMON CANAL Secretary General of Governance and Public Administration
   
  1.1. International experiences.
    CHRISTIAN VERGEZ Directoriate for Public Governance and territorial development of OECD in Paris.
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  1.2 Experience of “base information system" to be used of the whole society: public sector, business sector, citizens.
    ROLF AHLFORS Population Register Office of the Ministry of the Interior in Finland.
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  1.3. Learning from the business world.
    CARLES CASANOVAS General Manager of e-La Caixa (Catalan Savings Bank)
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  1.4. E-Governance, the government and citizens: A virtuous circle.
    MARTA CONTINENTE Director General of Citizen Attention Service, Generalitat de Catalunya
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11.00 h Coffee break
   
11.30 h
Theme 2 >> E-governance and the transformation of public administration
 
   
  Chair
ALBERT MARTÍ Director general of the Administration Organisation, Generalitat de Catalunya.
   
  2.1. Internet and government: Themes and styles in international experiences.
    JANE FOUNTAIN John F. Kennedy School of Government, University of Harvard.
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  2.2. Internet and the institutional network of the Catalan administration.
   

EDUARD AIBAR / FERRAN URGELL Director and researcher of the Catalonia Internet Project at Catalonia Open University (UOC)
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  2.3. The Barcelona II model: Internet, intranets, local government and citizens’ information in the city of Barcelona
    ESTEVE OLLÉ Researcher from the London School of Economics
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14.00 h Lunch
   
16.00 h
Theme 3 >> Wireless cities, communities of peoples, and the role of government in regulating communications
 
   
  Chair
JORDI PERICAS General Manager of Localret.
   
  3.1. The Networked city: ubiquitous communication and urban space under the new technological paradigm.
    FEDERICO CASALEGNO Media Lab MIT
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  3.2. Uses of Internet for municipal services and citizen participation in a country with broadband: Korea.
    JOHN H LEE President of Kisdi (Korea Information Strategy Development Institute).
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  3.3. How Free is Free Communication? Government Regulation in the era of Wireless Communication: an international perspective.
    JONNATHAN ARONSON Professor of communication at the Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California, L.A.
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  3.4. Cultural autonomy and wireless communication: networks in Catalonia.
    ORIOL FERRAN I RIERA Secretary General of Telecommunications and the Information Society, Generalitat de Catalunya.
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> Tuesday 6th July
   
9.00 h
Theme 4 >> Electronic democracy? Citizenship and citizen participation in the information age.
 
   
  Chair
TERESA SERRA President of Telecities.
   
  4.1. Local governments on line in USA, democracy, electronic networks and the electroral process.
    DON MEANS Co-founding member of Meet UP, USA.
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  4.2. European citizen participation networks: Electronic democracy, local government, social and citizen movements.
    VÉRONIQUE KLECK Coordinator of the Network of European citizens.
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  4.3. Citizen participation: The project of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
    JOAQUIM BRUGUÉ Director General of Citizen Participation.
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10.30 h Coffee break
   
11.00 h
Main conference
 
   
  Chair
JOAN CLOS Mayor of Barcelona.
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  Reforms in administration and the modernisation of democracy: The promise of e-governance.
MANUEL CASTELLS IN3 researcher, Catalonia Open University (UOC).
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ERKKI LIIKANEN
European Commissioner for Enterprise and theInformation Society.
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12.00 h
Round table on e-governance in Catalonia
 
   
 

ANTONI FERNÁNDEZ TEIXIDÓ President of the parliamentary permanent committee for the information society.
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ARTUR SERRA Centre of Internet Applications (CANET), Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)
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JORDI VALLS President of Localret.
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RAMÓN GARCÍA-BRAGADO Secretariat of the Presidential Department, Generalitat de Catalunya.
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13.30 h
Conclusion
 
   
  PASQUAL MARAGALL President of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
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