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Conference on Internet in Public Administration -- ISSS 2000

On March 27 and 28 2000 Conference on Internet in Public Administration -- ISSS 2000 was held in the city of Hradec Kralove in the Czech Republic. It was the third year of this important and unique event, this year it was attended by about 1300 people from 22 countries (Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Germany, France, the Great Britain, Greece, Bosna and Hercegovina, Sweden, Finland, Italy, USA, Latvia and Lithuania etc.). There were about 100 participants from abroad.

The programme of this year´s conference aimed at latest activity of the European Union, which sets strategic goals of industrial development around Europe for the following years and it is also aimed at the relation between this strategy and Czech government policy. Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Pavel Mertlik and Mr Jörg Wenzel from the European Commission contributed to this topic during the opening speech. At the same time it was an opportunity to show various projects and programmes from various countries and to start contacts among voted political representatives from towns and villages, government officers and experts in information technologies. The participants could compare information technologies development in various European states with particular focus at joining countries and acquaint with the European Union programmes and projects, which are funded by the European Commission and which enable partners participation from non-member countries as well. It has created an opportunity for Central and Eastern European countries to find partners for projects and answer a lot of questions.

Within the Conference the Telecities Seminar was held, this was for the first time in the country from Central and Eastern Europe, which was organized in cooperation of the Office for the State Information System and the Union of Towns and Communities of the Czech Republic.

During the ceremony it was signed the Helsinki Declaration "Global Cities Dialogue". The following cities representatives attached their signature on this declaration:

• Prague
• Hradec Kralove
• Ostrava
• Olomouc
• Pilsen
• Martin
• Metz
• Riga
• Vilnius
• Swarzedz
• Katowice

Similarly as during last conferences, this year the winners of the contests “Golden Crest” for the best homepage of towns and villages of the Czech Republic were announced and appraised. The winner was Jihlava in the category “Cities” and Sebetov in the category “Villages”.The prize “Czech At-sign” for the excellent public administration project which contributed significantly to the development of information society in the Czech Republic goes to the Digital Library of the Czech Parliament. The prize "Geoapplication of the Year" for the best project -- geographic systems application was awarded in the following three categories:

• Category A -- PUKNi 5.0G -- descriptive information from land register including digital maps in various sizes
• Category B -- Public presentation of the territory plan of "Prague region"
• Category C -- Information support for the Centre of emergency calls within integral emergency system in the city of Ostrava.

At the end of this festive occassion the Lord Mayor of Hradec Kralove Mr. Oldrich Vlasak invited national associations of all European countries to organize contests similar to Golden Crest, which could encourage the cities and villages to use information technologies for e-democracy development. Only perfect information systems utilisation including the Internet could bring larger openess and transparency into decision-making processes and in this way support democratic mechanism.