Programme
Monday, june 13th
MORNING
9.00 h Registration and conference documents
9.15 h Official opening of the talks
9.45 h Public administration, Citizens, and Connectivity: What Social Research Knows. An International Perspective
Chair
RAMON GARCÍA-BRAGADO, General Secretary of Presidency, Generalitat
de Catalunya
Introduction
MANUEL CASTELLS (UOC - Catalonia Open University)
The Politics of Technological Change in Public Administration
Organizational Complexity and Technical Challenges in the Construction
of Virtual Organizations.
PATRICIA
RILEY University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
Problems and perspectives of the e-Governance
in Europe.
WOLFGANG
DRECHSLER Tallinn University of Technology.
Social Networks and Local Governments
NOSHIR CONTRACTOR Universidad Illinois University, Urbana
12.15 h Coffee Break
12.45 h Keynote Speech
E-governance and E-Europe, from Lisbon 2000
to E-Europe 2005
ERKKI LIIKANEN Governor of the Bank of Finland, Former European Commissioner
of the Information Society
13.30 h e-Governance in Catalonia
Chair
NARCÍS MIR Director General of Innovation and Organization of Administration, Generalitat
de Catalunya.
Technological Change and Organizational Change
in the Generalitat de Catalunya: An Analytical Overview
EDUARD AIBAR, FERRAN URGELL, YANINA WELP Internet Interdisciplinary
Institute, UOC
Government and Citizens:
the new portal (Gencat) of the Government of Catalonia
MARTA CONTINENTE Director General of Citizen
Attention Service, Generalitat de Catalunya
14.30 h Lunch
AFTERNOON
16.00 h e-Governance in Catalonia (continuation)
Citizen Participation in the Generalitat de
Catalunya
JOAQUIM BRUGUÉ Director General
of Citizen Participation, Generalitat de Catalunya
Administration in the Directorial Plan for Infrastructures
JORDI BOSCH Director CTTI, Centre for Information
and Communication Technologies,Generalitat de Catalunya
The Open Administration of Catalonia (AOC):
Networking Government Institutions
JOAN OLIVARES CEOC of AOC (Open Administration of Catalonia)
Municipal Policy in the Digital Age
MONTSERRAT BALLARÍN Vice-president of Localret
Consortium and Councillor for Taxation in Barcelona City Council.
17.30 h Spanish experiences of technological change in public administration
Chair
ERNEST MARAGALLGovernment Secretary of the Generalitat
de Catalunya
Andalucía Regional Government
JOSÉ MARÍA RODRÍGUEZ Director General of Innovation and Public Administration
Present and Future of
Electronic Administration in the Government of the Basque Country
JOSEBA BILBAO Director of the Modernisation
Office of the Basque Government
19.00 h Conclusion
JORDI VALLS President of Localret Consortium and Mayor of Manresa
JOSEP BARGALLÓ First Minister, Generalitat de Catalunya
