You are kindly invited to join us for a Global Dialogue workshop on New Generation Organizational Models for eGovernment: Emerging Role of Centers of Excellence. You can participate in person, via videoconference or live webcast or by sending questions to speakers in advance.
The event will take place at 09.30 - 12:30 am ET on April 1, 2008 in Washington D. C. (1818 H Street, N. W.). The event is organized by the e-Development Thematic Group/Global ICT Department of the World Bank in collaboration with GDLN, DGF, ECCB, IIS Russia, African eDevelopment Resource Centre in Kenya and other organizations.
Workshop Description.
Given the complexities of designing and implementing e-government applications, institutional structures are extremely important for achieving success. Traditionally, governments have established specialized ICT agencies/organizations to deal with technology issues in the public sector. Such agencies variously deal with policy, operational and procedural aspects of e-government. However, rapid changes taking place in technologies and business models, require a fundamental rethink of the organizational structures and institutional designs for ICT organizations supporting e-government. Apart from the public sector, the private sector has some useful lessons of experience to offer in this regard. For example, Integration/SOA Competency Centers are playing a useful role in rationalizing and coordinating IT
deployments, in cost effective and efficient ways.
This workshop will discuss the role of a new generation of e-government organizations which could extend the role of e-Government "Centers of Excellence" or "Competency Centers" in keeping with emerging technology and organizational trends. These organizations could potentially help expand and scale-up successful e-Government approaches, including
those using Service Oriented Architecture and Web 2.0 technologies. These "e-Gov 2.0" organizations could be designed as hybrids with flexible structures, drawing expertise from government agencies, academia, private sector and industry. The session intends to explore promising approaches to the design of such organisations drawing upon successful experiences from the private and public sectors. The session will discuss the applicability of such next
generation e-government organizations to different environments. In environments where e-Government projects are risky and, involve high level technical skills, and domain expertise, such approaches could effectively meld the business of government with new technologies and business models to achieve future oriented and high impact eGovernment applications.
The speakers will include:
Philippe Dongier, Sector Manager, Global ICT Dept., World Bank
Reinhard Posch, Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Government of Austria (keynote address, via videoconference)
Randeep Sudan, Lead ICT Policy Specialist, Global ICT Dept., World Bank
Jaijit Bhattacharya, Country Director at Sun Microsystems India (via videoconference)
Samia Melhem (Moderator), Senior Operations Officer, Global ICT Dept., World Bank; and Chair, e-Development Thematic Group
Juan Navas Sabater, Senior Operations Officer, Global ICT Dept., World Bank
Additional information on this seminar, such as the agenda, speaker profiles and slides will be placed online as they become available at http://go.worldbank.org/2LA3GGGEA0.
Please note that a building pass will be required if you are attending in DC, and you can contact us at edevelopment@worldbank.org with your name and your institution's name so that a building pass will be requested prior to your arrival.
As an alternative, you can join us via live webcast and online discussion or in one of other participating cities (via videoconference). We can provide the list of cities, which will be connected, upon request.
The Live Webcast / e-Discussion and archived videoclip will be available at:
http://www.worldbank.org/edevelopment/live , please respond by email to confirm your participation in the webcast.
We look forward to your attendance!
e-Development TG Team
P.S. Feel free to forward this invitation to all who may be interested!
