V4DIS--Visegrad Group for Developing Information Society V4DIS--Visegrad Group for Developing Information Society
V4DIS--Visegrad Group for Developing Information Society V4DIS--Visegrad Group for Developing Information Society April 12—14, 2015, Prague & Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic

V4DIS 2015—The twelfth year is getting ready

10/22/2014, Prague, Česky Česky

Already for the twelfth year there will be held a traditional international conference V4DIS (Visegrad Four for Developing Information Society), simultaneously with the prestigious national conference ISSS that will take place in the days of 13–14 April 2015 in Hradec Králové. The meeting of public administration representatives of Visegrád Four countries will once again welcome a number of significant guests not only from the Visegrád region, but also from other European countries. The official auspices of the conference will be traditionally granted by the Vice President of the Senate of the Parliament of CR Přemysl Sobotka. At present there is negotiated participation of a deputy of the European Commission that would follow the presentation of the Vice President of the European Commission Neelie Kroes, who was a guest of the last year conference. The conference should be attended also by the official e-government coordinators (so called “digital champions”) from the V4 countries and a number of local as well as foreign experts dealing with the issue of informatization of society and reform of public administration.

The main topics of the conference will include evaluation of the e-government development in the Visegrád countries as well as information about the key projects that succeeded in starting or completing. Following the tradition there will be plenty of space given to the projects from the area of e-tourism, issues concerning further development of cross-border collaboration, experience from implementation of modern technologies in wider spectrum of areas related to the public administration and presentations of best practices.

“A long-term project V4DIS, which is focused on use of information and communication technologies in public administration and local governments of V4 countries, development of modern electronic services for citizens, exchange of experience and presentation of chosen projects, started already in 2004,” says the executive director of the conference ISSS/V4DIS Tomáš Renčín. “This event is traditionally co-organized by the Vysočina Region and the conference itself has been a few times supported also by the International Visegrád Fund (IVF).”

The V4DIS conference programme will include apart from the traditional accompanying events of the ISSS conference also the traditional Sunday VIP evening in the Klicpera theatre and a gala award announcement of the international competition Eurocrest or awarding of participants of the competition of young talents JuniorErb, who will as usual receive also memorial certificates of the Vice President of the Senate of the Parliament of CR.