Programme of the Conference ISSS 2000
Monday 27th March
Main Hall	10:00–10:15	Opening of the Conference
Oldřich Vlasák, Lord Mayor of Hradec Kralové
František Dohnal, Programming Director of the ISSS 2000 Conference	
	10:15–10:45	State information policy of the Czech Republic
Pavel Mertlík, Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic	
	10:45–11:15	”E-Europe initiative–Information Society for all”
Jorg Wenzel, Chief Executive ISAC, European Commission	
	11:30–12:30	Signature Ceremony ”Global Cities Dialogue”
at least 10 Mayors from main Eastern Europe Cities will sign the declaration of the Global Cities Dialogue
Jan Kasl, Lord Mayor of Prague
Mariella Gramaglia, City of Rome and Telecities president
Alfonso Molina, The University of Edinburgh
Bruno Peeters, City of Antverpen
Jorg Wenzel, Chief Executive ISAC, European Commission and others	
	14:30–16:00	E-government–State administration in the time of Internet
Public administration reform in the USA (15") – Mr. McDonough introduces a vision of public administration of the future which will be characterised by integration of electronic self-services available wherever and whenever.
Francis A. McDonough, Office of Intergovernmental, Solutions, U. S. General Services Administration, USA
Information technologies in Swedish public administration (15") – This contribution deals with Swedish public administration computerisation aimed at improve and more effective services provided to citizens. Government support in equipping households by computers has created conditions for development of new services and new forms of communication between the citizens and the state.
Britta Johansson, Swedish Agency of Administrative Development, Sweden
State support for e-business will bring benefits to all the nation (15") – this lecture answers questions what should the politics do to support the development of e-business and what are the benefits for state economical prosperity and state administration efficiency.
Keith Chapple, American Chambre of Commerce, Belgie
State administration in the times of the Internet (panel discussion) (45")
Stanislav Gross, Ivan Langer, Vladimír Mlynář, Parliament Assembly of CR
Yvonne Strecková, Deputy Minister for the public administration reform, Ministry of the Interior
Zbyšek Bahenský, Ondřej Felix, Information Society Association (SPIS)	
			
Small Hall	13:00–13:30	KPNQwest Czechia*
Michael Hartman, KPNQwest Czechia (Eunet Czechia)	
	13:30–14:00	Novell*
Aleš Kučera, Novell-Prague	
	14:00–14:30	Oracle*
Ondřej Felix, Director Public Services CEE & CIS	
	14:30–15:00	Local and Regional Information Society Seminar, East-West Telecities Seminar
Opening speeches
Oldřich Vlasák, Mayor of Hradec Králové, Vicepresident of UTC CR
Alexander Kratochvíl, The Office for the State Information System
Mariella Gramaglia, City of Rome and President of Telecities	
	15:00–16:00	E-commerce in public administration (First plenary session)
The session will focus on the issues of legal requirements for e-commerce in Public Administration
Chairperson: Ms. Mirta Michilli, City of Rome
Legislative issues of public administration on the Internet, situation in the EU
Florence de Villenfagne, Belgium
Legislative requests for the utilisation of the Internet in public administration
in the Czech republic
Vladimír Smejkal, Czech Republic
e-shop of the city of Helsinki
Raija Ollikainen, Finland	
	16:30–17:30	E-government (Second plenary session)
The session will focus on e-government experience from East and West European Cities
Chairperson: Mr. Robert de Beukelaar, City of Antverpen
Support projects for e-democracy in the CR
Mr. František Dohnal, Czech Republic
E-democracy in Portugal
Ms. Anabela Pedroso, Lisbon, Portugal
Gdansk experience in applying teleinformatics for establishing co-operation between local governments and the community
Mr. Wieslaw Patrzek, Poland
Latvian Unified Municipal Information System
Mr. Juris Mikelsons, Riga, Latvia
Barcelona on-line: one stop shop	
	17:30–18:00	Conclusion of the first part of Telecities Seminar
Presentation of the Global Junior Challenge and of the Stockholm Challenge Award	
			
Lecture Hall	12:40–13:20	Press conference Global Cities Dialogue	
	13:45–14:30	Unisys*
Wolfgang Grundei, Unisys Austria	
	16:10–16:30	Triada*
Čapek, City of Luhačovice, Hanzl, Triada	
	17:00	Meeting of Members of Parliament and journalists (closed)	
			
Elisabeth Hall	16:30–17:00	PVT*
Martin Kolařík, PVT	
	17:00–18:00	Intel*
Pavel Komárek, Internet Strategy Director, Intel Czech	
			
Meeting Hall	16:00–16:30	Software602*
Pavel Nemrava, Software602	
	16:30–18:00	Meeting of the Association of District Magistrates I.*
Seminar of the computer specialists from district authorities and magistrates
(directed by Pavel Bureš)
Conception of building public administration information systems – main tasks of the Ministry of Interior of the CR (15"), Ing. Svatopluk Herzán, CSc., MI of the CR
GIS Application on the Internet and Intranet in the District Magistrate of the city
of Děčín (15"), Petr Pohořelý, OkÚ Děčín
Presentation of geographic information by the means of Internet/Intranet in the District Magistrate of the city of Uherské Hradiště (15"), RNDr. Ivo Skrášek, OkÚ Uherské Hradiště, Ing. Zdeněk Pokorný, VARS Brno
Paper about a possibility of exploitation IS in future bodies in the district of Pardubice (10"), Ing. Martin Halámka, OkÚ Pardubice
Utilisation of the Intranet in the District Magistrate of the city of Česká Lípa (10"), Ing. Jiří Kočí, OkÚ Česká Lípa
Presentation of the region by the means of the Internet and CD-ROM (10"), Ing. Zdeněk Chlup, OkÚ Karviná
United digital topography of the district (15"), Ing. Karina Uhlíková, CSc., Ing. Roman Gertner, OkÚ Hodonín	
			
Lounge Nr. 2	11:00–12:00	Meeting of the Heads of District Offices (no public access)* 	
	14:30–16.00	Anopress*
Vojtěch Stavný, Anopress	
	16:00–17:00	Viszegrad Group of Four (closed meeting)
meeting of expert group for possibilities of information technologies utilisation in public administration
(The Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia)	
Congress Centre Aldis	20:00–02:00	Joint part of the Conference
Award of the Prize ”Czech At-sign” (excellent project which contributed significantly to the development of information society in the Czech Republic)
Announcement of the results of the Contest ”Golden Crest” (for the best WWW homepages of towns and villages),
Contest ”Geoapplication of the year”,
Yamahoo, raut	
Tuesday 28th March
Main Hall	8:00–8:55	Opening of the 2nd day of the Conference
Summarisation of the 1st day of the Conference
Information system of the real estate register*
latest information about implementation, benefits for public administration bodies, remote access 
Karel Večeře, ČÚZK
Programme offer of the 2nd day of the Conference	
			
Lounge
lounge Nr. 1
lounge Nr. 2
lounge Nr. 3	8:30–9:30	Telecities Working Groups (first round of parallel session)
Smart Government, Mr. Martin van Rossum, Den Haag 
Electronic Democracy, Ms. Leda Guidi, Bologna 
City of Tomorrow Mr. Thorsten Einig, Cologne	
lounge Nr. 1
lounge Nr. 2
lounge Nr. 3
room Nr. 1 (2nd floor)	9:30–10:30	Telecities Working Groups (second round of parallel session)
New Ways of Working–Public Administration to Business-electronic commerce applications Ms. Pamela Finley, Nurnberg Accessibility 
New Ways of Working–Public Administration to Consumer/Citizen/Customer/Client-electronic commerce applications
Robert de Beukelaar, Antwerp
New Ways of Working–Public Administration to Public Administration‑electronic commerce applications Mr. Dave Carter, Manchester 
Independent Living Ms. Susan Ng-A-Tham, Den Haag	
			
Small Hall	9:00–9:30	IBM
companies presentation*
Boris Šraut, consultant, IBM Czech Republic	
	9:30–10:30	Promotive projects for information society
Programmes of MMR a MK of the Czech Republic
Jiří Hladík, MMR ČR, Koubová, MK ČR
Parthenay, e-region
Michel Hervé, France
Tools for e-Europe development (Europrix 2000)
Stefan Weber, Austria
Projects Erisa
Carlos Castro, Extremadura, Spain
Czech Forum for information society
Jiří Zlatuška, Czech Republic	
	10:45–11:45	EU Programmes–support of information technologies
José Cotta, European commission	
	11:45–12:00	Conclusion of the Telecities Seminar
Mariella Gramaglia, Telecities, František Dohnal, SMO ČR	
	12:00–14:00	”...on the road to the Information Society”
(round table with the most important personalities)
E-Europe
Monitoring of changes in the Czech Republic last year
Situation and experience of the EU countries
opening speeches:
Jiří Zlatuška, Masaryk’s University Brno
José Cotta, European Commission
Mariella Gramaglia, Telecities president	
			
Lecture Hall	9:00–10:30	Day for journalists – part I.*
Introduction
Jiří Peterka
How we do it
Ondrej Neff, editor of the Internet daily Neviditelný pes; Computer Press;
Czech Press Agency, Internet daily České noviny; Evžen Vaněk, Plzeň, IHNED
The Internet and publishing
Petr Koubský	
	10:45–12:00	Day for journalists – part II. (discussion)*
Mass media in the times of the Internet
Classical mass media in a new age
Ethics, morality, law
Virtual editorial groups
directed by Jan Pokorný	
			
Elisabeth Hall	9:00–10:30	Liberalisation of telecommunication in the Czech Republic*
New law on telecommunication, Stádník, ČTÚ
Joint course of telecommunication societies and municipalities (panel discussion) – non-public nets of public administration, pilot projects of local nets, utilisation of cable television for telecommunication services, problem issues of access 	
	10:30–10:40	Aliatel
companies presentation*
Vladimír Kryštof, Aliatel	
	10:45–12:30	Geographic information systems and the Internet*
Metainformation system CAGI (15")
Josef Hojdar, Štěpán Kafka, Česká asociace pro geoinformace
Information infrastructure and geographic information in Europe and in the CR (15")
Petr Kubíček
Short look back – development of GIS utilisation in the state administration in the Czech Republic (10")
Milan Marenčák
Contest Geoapplication of the year 1999 (5")
Eva Pauknerová
Presentation of winning projects of the contest Geoapplication of the year 1999 (45")
Discussion (15")	
			
Meeting Hall	9:00–10:30	Meeting of the Association of District Magistrates II.*
Seminar of the computer specialists from district authorities and magistrates
(directed by Jana Kratinová)
Communication services of regional bodies in the conditions of the city of Hradec Králové (20"), Zdeněk Pour, OkÚ Hradec Králové
Information system of the city of Pilsen (20"), Stanislav Brož, Správa informačních technologií města Plzně, Josef Beneš, Plzeňský Holding
District Data Net of the city of Třebíč (20"), František Jonáš., Jan Pokorný, OkÚ Třebíč
Pilot project “Prague” (5"), Ladislav Kendík, Prague Magistrate
Prague on the Internet (10"), Luděk Brož, IMIP
Utilisation of the Internet in providing territorial information (15"), Jiří Černý, Luděk Brož, IMIP	
	10:30–12:00	Microsoft
companies presentation*
Zdeněk Jiříček, Microsoft Belgie, Business Developer Manager, EE Government Programmes
Jan Toman, Microsoft, Local Government Sales Rep.
Vojtěch Foukal, Microsoft, Internet Customer Unit Manager	
	11:30–12:00	Cisco
companies presentation*
Jaroslav Martan, systems engineer, Cisco Systems	
	12:00–13:30	Seminar of the webmasters from the towns and villages*
directed by Tomáš Holenda, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic
”Golden Crest” – presentation of awarded webpages;
Conception of information systems building in public administration;
Public information services – pilot project PHARE;
Act on the Freedom of information and the Internet;
Czech forum for the information society;
The ten Commandments of SW administrator in the office;	
			
Congress Centre Aldis	15:00	Estimated end of the Conference	

* in Czech language only