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Associations of Municipalities, Cities, Ev4+/LORIS Declaration International Conference Visegrád Group for Developing Information Society Local and Regional Information Society Meeting of Associations and Cities eStrategy • Associations of Municipalities • Cities • eV4+/LORIS Declaration Central, Eastern and South Eastern European Associations and Cities Hradec Králové, Hotel Černigov, March 28, 2004 Local and Regional Information Society 29th–30th March, 2004, Hradec Králové Table of Content e-Strategy and Cooperation among Towns................................................................................... 3 e-Strategy and Profile of the Association of Towns and Communities of the Czech Republic......... 8 e-Strategy and Profile of an Association of Towns and Municipalities in View of Information Society Development .................................................................................. 11 Albanian Association of Municipalities (AAM)..................................................................................................................... 11 Information Systems Development and Training Center (Republic of Armenia)................................................................. 12 Association of Municipalities and Cities of the Federation of BiH...................................................................................... 14 Union of the Association of Towns and the Association of Municipalities of the Republic of Croatia................................. 16 Hungarian National Association of Local Authorities .......................................................................................................... 18 Union of Local and Regional Governments of Latvia.......................................................................................................... 21 Romanian Association of Municipalities.............................................................................................................................. 23 Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities (SCTM)................................................................................................ 26 Centre of Community Networking and Information Policy Studies (CCNS)........................................................................ 29 e-Strategy and Profile of a City in View of Information Society Development............................... 32 Prague (Czech Republic) .................................................................................................................................................... 32 Bratislava (Slovak Republic) ............................................................................................................................................... 37 České Budějovice (Czech Republic)................................................................................................................................... 42 Hradec Králové (Czech Republic)....................................................................................................................................... 48 Liberec (Czech Republic).................................................................................................................................................... 55 Opava (Czech Republic) ..................................................................................................................................................... 60 Ostrava (Czech Republic) ................................................................................................................................................... 63 Třinec (Czech Republic)...................................................................................................................................................... 67 Banská Bystrica (Slovak Republic) ..................................................................................................................................... 69 Declaration on Local and Regional Information Society Development (eV4+/LORIS Declaration)..... 71 2 www.isss.cz/v4dis Local and Regional Information Society 29th–30th March, 2004, Hradec Králové e-Strategy and Cooperation among Towns Jaroslav Šolc, Head of the Policy Division., Prague City Council–Informatics Department, Czech Republic The paper deals with the importance of cooperation between self-governments, primarily those of towns, in enhancing information society development. It presents the experience of the Informatics Department of Prague City Council gained in this issue both at the national and international level. It also pays attention to the terms e-Strategy and benchmarking and highlights topics for strengthening of cooperation in the future. Introduction – Why cooperate? There are numerous reasons. Specialist, economic, prestige, as well as application of joint procedures and interests towards the surroundings. Functioning with similar goals are associa- tions of various subjects in various thematic areas. Hence, it is essential that towns also coop- erate in modernising public administration, especially in a period bearing witness to the rapid development of information and communications technologies (ICT), their penetration into all spheres of life, and the increasingly frequent use of such terms as information society and e- government. Under economic pressure, the private sector has been adapting to the challenges of the times, including changes in labour style and organisation and improvement of qualifi- cation. Similar principles have been seeping into public administration too. Cooperation of towns and locals governments in the EU Towns play a major role in information society development owing to their specific condi- tions, such as large population, concentration of economic and creative potential. They are important partners, representatives of the interests of self-governments on both the local and regional level towards the state and the EU. An especially relevant role is played by big cities, which as a result of their position and ambitions in the national and international arena must be bearers of ideas and solutions complying with the current level of information and communications technologies’ develop- ment and their application in an advanced Europe. On the eve of EU enlargement, coopera- tion between towns of the acceding countries and towns of the EU15 is a real challenge. Ap- proximately ten years ago, European cities began associating themselves in such organisations as TeleCities and Global Cities Dialogue (GCD), presented at ISSS/LORIS on several occasions, and Major Cities of Europe – IT Users Group, an organisation due to intro- duce itself for the first time. Also common are smaller groupings of towns that are partners within the framework of a particular time-limited project. Similarly developed in the EU is ICT cooperation between associations of local gov- ernments – ELANET - or associations of regions - ERISA. The two organisations have also been presented at ISSS/LORIS and they closely collaborate with TeleCities, including on so- lutions to specific projects, for example, the Three Roses project pertaining to the use of Open Source SW. The benefits of cooperation with organisations of towns and self-governments are very well perceived by the private and research sectors since it allows for joint discussion of experience, trends, needs and possibilities of their solution. Prague has been a member of the TeleCities network since 2001 (since 2002 a member of the Management Committee), and this organisation’s objectives show the fruitfulness of cooperation. TeleCities (www.telecities.org) is a network associating more than 100 European cities, it is a platform for sharing and exchange of experience, development of practical solu- www.isss.cz/v4dis 3 Local and Regional Information Society 29th–30th March, 2004, Hradec Králové tions directed towards an open information and knowledge-based society at both the Euro- pean and local level. The main goal of TeleCities is formulated as support for e-Citizenship for All, whereby in comparison with e-Government an active approach from below is empha- sised. To attain this goal: • it strives to influence European policy in the interest of cities; • it enhances exchange of experience and knowledge between cities of member states and acceding countries; • it informs its members of policies, programmes and initiatives of the EU and local gov- ernments; • it facilitates and supports the origination and solution of projects assisted by the EU for its members and their associations. Representatives of the organisations TeleCities, Global Cities Dialogue, Major Cities of Europe and capitals of V4+ countries have been invited to take part in ISSS/LORIS 2004 and appear in a special programme block devoted to cities. How we cooperate in the Czech Republic In the 1990s self-governments in the Czech Republic underwent a substantial development, from overcoming habits from centralised management to full awareness of the necessity and advantages of an active approach “from below”. By the dawn of the millennium, the situation had become complicated as a result of public administration reform, the origination of four- teen new regions, the gradual demise of old districts and the transfer of competences to dele- gated municipalities. Effective use and development of ICT in such an environment was a tough nut to crack for both self-governments and the Ministry of the Interior of the CR. The willingness to associate self-governments manifested itself immediately after 1989 in the establishment of the Union of
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