V4DIS 2006 -- Successfully finished

Visegrad conference, which was held as a part of the ISSS already for the third time in succession, presented this year other two key themes in addition to the traditional issues of e-government and electronic services for the citizens of V4 countries. Much interest was paid right to the first theme--gender issues and questions concerning equality of women in approach to ICT and availability of electronic services provided by public administration. The second particularly interesting theme of V4 DIS was the role of information technologies in tourism, mainly questions connected with V4 portal, promotion of separate destinations, roles of national and regional portals and significance of internet promotion of the states.

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Web pages in the European competition EuroCrest 2006

Announcement of the results of the EuroCrest competition for the best internet pages of towns, villages and regions in Europe was part of the programme of the gala social evening of the 9 ^th year of the conference Internet in Public Administration and Self-government in Hradec Kralove. The enunciator of the fourth year of the EuroCrest competition is the Association Golden Crest. This year of the competition was held under the auspices of Premysl Sobotka, President of the Senate of Parliament of the Czech Republic and was part of the V4DIS conference. The EuroCrest competition draws on the experience made at organizing the Golden Crest competition held in the Czech Republic with taking into account consultations with experts from European Union.

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The auspices of the V4DIS conference

The auspices of the V4DIS conference have been assumed by Premysl Sobotka, President of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic.

Introductory word by Premysl Sobotka, President of the Senate of Parliament of the Czech Republic

Dear ladies, dear gentlemen

When a politician accepts a personal patronage over some public event, many a time they are induced by a mere civility or sense of their social obligations to represent honourably their position. However, when I decided to take patronage over this year the IX^th year of an international conference "Internet in public administration and self-government" that also this year is extended by Visegrad conference Visegrad Four for Developing Information Society, I did so out of sincere interest in this issue.

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