Irene Weithofer

Member of the Organising Committeeof the

Major Cities of Europe IT Users Group

&

Department Manager for Application Development in

outsourced ICT of the City of Leipzig

www.majorcities.org

Valter Baldassi VeniceMichel Bétuing Nice Radmila Dujmovic, Dunja Jurica Zagreb Carlo Mazzola Rom Flemming Nielsen Aarhus Lluis Olivella Barcelona Robert Joachim Schiff Saarbrücken André van der Meer The Hague Irene Weithofer Leipzig Bertil Axelson, Birgitta Roos, Birgitta Sunden Göteborg

PresidentGrete Zetterdal

Oslo

SecretaryJörg WiegandBremerhaven

Vice President Lorenzo BandelliTrieste

The Göteborg Conference will cover topics of great importance for european cities, such as eSignature, mServices and eDemocracy.

Speakers from different major cities will tell about their experience in these fields.

2004 GöteborgSweden

2003 ZagrebCroatia

2002 BremenGermany

2001 TriesteItaly

2000 NiceFrance

Part 1 Göteborg

Welcome to GöteborgMr. Jörgen Linder, Mayor of Göteborg

IT companies in the regionMs. Ulrike Firniss, Business Region Gbg AB

Smartcards in Göteborg and the regionMr. Ulf Källström, City of Göteborg

The Göteborg tourist web siteMr. Claes Bjerkne, Gbg & Co

Part 2 mServices

PDA navigation and information system based on automatic conversion of web information geo-referenced through a GIS. Mr. Sergio Duretti, City of Turin

The mCity projectMs. Kristina Lundevall, City of Stockholm

Mobile devices interaction with municipal information management systemsMr. Valter Baldassi and Mr. Marco Bettini, City of Venice

Part 3 eSignature

UK National Smartcard Project - what have we learned and what next?Mr. Mik Davies, London Connects

Everybody has oneMr. Anders Krabbe Moeller, City of Naestved

The Prato Smartcard - EU project SPESMr. Paolo Boscolo, City of Prato

State of the art in GermanyDr. Martin Hagen, City of Bremen

Part 4 eDemocracy

2004 GöteborgSweden