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7/16/2010
The Samos 2010 Summit was
organised with great success and global visibility, on July 6 - 9,
in the Research and Training Institute of East Aegean - INEAG, at
Campos Vourlioton, Samos. The Samos Summit was coorganised by the
University of Aegean, the National Technical University of Athens
and the Greek Interoperability Centre, under the auspices of
European Commission / DG Information Society and Media.
With the participation of 100 high-level eGovernment experts from
20 countries, the meeting adopted the "Samos Declaration," which
calls the United Nations, the European Union and the National
Governments to support research on new ICT tools for citizens and
governance in the coming years.
The Samos Declaration, concludes in
four Grand Challenges for future ICT research:
- Collaborative model-based Governance
- Open Data for transparency and behavioral change
- Government Service Utilities for trans-national, collaborative
public-private services
- The scientific foundation of the field of ICT-enabled
Governance
The Summit hosted presentations of
international research projects CROSSROAD, PADGETS, COCKPIT,
OCOPOMO, + SPACES, UBIPOL and WEGOV, which are expected to produce
innovative applications for citizens, public officials, politicians
and businesses, in the coming years.
The Samos Summit hosted
presentations of research teams and representatives from major ICT
industries and research centres, including Gartner Group, Google,
IBM, Microsoft, Atos Origin, Intrasoft International, Engineering,
ATC, TU Delft, Brunel University, Imperial College, Fraunhofer
FOKUS, CeGD, University College London, University Koblenz -
Landau, IPTS, Tech4i2, Salford University, Zaragoza University,
Aegean University, Greek Interoperability Centre and more.
Samos Summit publicity relied primarily on the Internet: in
addition to summit participants, more than 300 scientists from
around the world attended via internet broadcasting. Furthermore,
thousands of members of the scientific community were informed
"live" for the presentations and outcome of the meeting through
Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin.
The event was also covered by local
and national Greek media: news papers and sites Naftemporiki,
Samiaka Nea, ICT Plus, radio stations Armonia and Ionia as well as
the Samos TVchannel presented parts of the event.
Yannis Charalabidis, assistant professor in University of Aegean
and Chair of the summit, said: "The Samos Summit was an important
and ambitious initiative, which was a great success - giving Samos
significant visibility at international level. Congratulations to
participants, colleagues, students of the University of the Aegean
and the National Technical University of Athens, local authorities
and citizens of our island: we showed that teamwork and positive
attitude can achieve a lot. And we can still become
better."
All material and presentations of the Samos 2010 Summit, photos
and the "Samos Declaration" are available at: http://samos-summit.blogspot.com/
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