Innovation and Community Information (390KB)
Speaker: Julian Bowrey, e-Government Programme Manager, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Content: Reviews the existing e-government community information landscape: Council websites; partnerships; CMS; and search engines. Describes the mandatory IEG target for Community Information: Will describe the development of Directgov and the key role for community information in increasing user take up of e-services. Analyses the main thrusts and content of the current ODPM 'e-innovations’ programme and other relevant developments.

seamless discovery of community information (3.15MB)
Speaker: Mary Rowlatt, Strategic Information Manager, Essex County Council

Content: Describes the current development of the seamlessUK solution and standards, moving on to the possible role of new technologies in community resource discovery, automated metadata, terminology management and Web Services in improving retrieval. 

Joining up of the community information components (31.8MB)
Speaker: Gunnar Urtegaard, Sogn and Fjordal County, Norway

Content: Describes and demonstrates an integrated community information service drawing on multiple and complex data sources, pulling together a variety of component solutions, including location based/GI technology and delivering outputs to a range of different devices on demand.

The Cultural Community (12.5MB)
Speaker: Chris Batt, Chief Executive, MLA

Content: Describes the importance of access to cultural resources in the life of the community, covers issues related to the need for improvement in their discovery and presentation and integration within an e-government framework and a Common Information Environment.

The Multilingual Community (2.19MB)
Speaker: Dan McQuillan, MultiKulti project 

Content: Covers the state of the art in multilingual content development and access, the importance of standards for a multicultural internet, and promising developments in language technology, drawn from the experience of a community-driven multilingual web service.

Semantic Web Services and Community Information (2.04MB)
Speaker: Dr John Domingue, Deputy Director, Knowledge Media Institute, Open University

Content: There are two significant issues related to the successful deployment of web services in an e-government context. Firstly, how to enable multiple independent agencies each with their own IT infrastructure, policies and work processes to interoperate without central control. Second, how can we manage the mismatch between the requests posed by citizens ("What benefits can I get now that my elderly mother has moved in?") and functionalities provided by online services ("We provide rent rebates to War Widows if the total household income is less than X"). This talk will outline how semantic web services can address these issues.

The Ambient Community 2010 (384KB)
Speaker: Dr Costis Dallas, Chairman and Senior Researcher, Critical Publics

Content: Device heterogeneity - moving from latest developments in mobile phones, handheld devices, digiTV to pervasive computing, devices all around the home, car, school, workplace, voice and gesture recognition and VR/visualisation.

The Standards Horizon (1.2MB)
Speaker: Scott Burton, National Standards Body for local government

Content: The role of the National Standards Body. Current best practice for Community Information is defined as fulfilment of national standards on accessibility and interoperability. The application of Open Source to community information. What standards do we have compared to those we need? What will the eGiF look like in 5 years time?