Panels

Connecting e-Government:
Cooperation and Interoperation Across Borders [PDF]

Moderator: Volker Tschammer, FhG FOKUS (Germany)

Panelists:

Dirk Arendt, FhG FOKUS (Germany) [PDF] [PDF]
Wolfgang Fiedler, Municipality of Aachen (Germany) [PDF]
Tom van Engers, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Witold Sartorius, Polish Competence Centre for e-Government & e-Education (Poland) [PDF]
Manuel Mendes, University of Santos and CENPRA (Brazil)
Despina Polemi, University of Piraeus (Greece)

Panel topics:

• Organization, moderation, and technical interoperability of e-government systems
• Experience of an administration in cross-border e-government
• Semantics of e-government
• Legal aspects of e-government
• Eastern European challenges and political strategies
• Latin American challenges and experience
• Security aspects of e-government systems

e-X, e-Y, e-Z, ...: Dreams, Realities and Lessons Learned

Moderator: Otto Spaniol, RWTH Aachen University (Germany)

Panelists:

Liba Svobodova, IBM Research GmbH, Zurich Research Laboratory (Switzerland)
Winfried Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg (Germany)
Waclaw Iszkowski, Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications (Poland)
Reima Suomi, Turku School of Economics and Business Administration (Finland)
Kiril Boyanov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Bulgary)
Adam Grzech, Wroclaw University of Technology (Poland)

Panel topic:

E-Government, e-Democracy, e-whatever seemed to hold many promises of a better and easier life for all. This holds not least for researchers – the “conference scope“ of I3E 2005 mentions no less that 15(!) different “e-...“ from e-Health and e-Hub to e-Payment and e-Work. And this list is probably by no means exhaustive.

However, one cannot ignore that so far many of these promises have turned out to be so much hot air: Market and user expectations have rarely been satisfied. Very often, the differences between announcements and results have been really spectacular.

What are the reasons for this very disappointing situation:
- Difficulties with management and operation?
- Questionable or insufficient security?
- Too many and too cumbersome regulatory issues?
- High cost of introduction?
- Unpredictable cost for necessary updates?
- Immature and too complicated systems?
- Inadequate improvement over existing solutions?
- Lack of user acceptance?
- Other reasons?

This bundle of problems will be intensively discussed by the panel members and by the audience.