International Relations - Municipality of Bologna

ICT for Local Administrations

 

eCitizen II - Towards citizen-centered eGovernment in European cities and regions

As a follow-up project the eCitizen II is designed to support European cities and regions in their joint efforts to accelerate eGovernment through exploiting established networks, gained experiences and good practices to improve interaction between citizens and public authorities, better involving citizens in local decision-making and contributing to change in operational culture and attitudes within public administrations.

Funding Programme: European Territorial Cooperation Programme INTERREG IVC
Starting date: 01/01/2010
Closing date: 31/12/2012

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SMARTIP – Smart Metropolitan Areas Realised Through Innovation & People

www.smart-ip.eu

The idea of the SMARTiP project is to take the experience developed by a wide range of existing user-driven, open innovation initiatives in Europe, particularly those developed through Living Labs, and to apply this experience to the challenge of transforming public services by empowering ‘smart citizens’ who are able to use and co-produce innovative Internet-enabled services within emerging ‘smart’ cities. The aim is to enable to adoption of open platforms for the co-production of citizen-centric Internet-enabled services in five test-bed sites, Manchester, Gent, Cologne, Bologna and Oulu.

Funding: Development Cooperation Instrument - Non-State Actors and Local Authorities in Development / Objective 2 Public awareness of development issues and Development Education in Europe
Starting date: 15/03/2011
Duration: 24 months

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