V4DIS 2015–The Twelfth Year of the Visegrad Conference

4/13/2015 9:00:00 AM, Hradec Králové, Česky

Simultaneously with the 18^th year of the ISSS conference there is held the traditional international conference V4DIS (Visegrad Four for Developing Information Society) in the Congress Centre Aldis in Hradec Králové already for the twelfth year. After a year the meeting of public administration representatives from the Visegrad Four countries will be again attended by a number of significant guests from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary as well as from other European countries. The personal auspices of the conference were granted similarly as in the previous years by the Vice President of the Senate of the Parliament of ČR Přemysl Sobotka.

The conference meeting will be gala opened in the Visegrad lounge at 9 a.m. and behind the chair desk there will speak besides Přemysl Sobotka, also Jiří Běhounek, President of the Vysočina Region, which is a co-organizer of this year conference, General Secretary of the Union of Towns and Cities of Slovakia Marian Minarovič, Viktória Bodisová from the International Visegrad Fund and the director of the ISSS/V4DIS conference Tomáš Renčín. The opening meeting will be moderated by Jaroslav Šolc from the Prague City Hall.

This year conference of public administration representatives from Visegrad countries is focused especially on the current state of e-government in the V4 region. The first part of the conference programme takes place during Monday morning immediately after the gala opening and a number of speeches of the conference V4DIS 2015 participants was divided into various theme blocks within the whole two-day ISSS/V4DIS 2015 programme.

V4DIS 2015 conference programme includes as usual work presentations of young talented people who take an active part in the public administration and via the international competition JuniorErb they compare their own projects and exchange valuable experience. Also this year the awarded competitors will meet the representatives of state administration and local governments and they will be handed over memorial certificates by the Vice President of the Senate of the Parliament of ČR Přemysl Sobotka. During the day public administration representatives from the V4 countries will also take over prizes awarded within the traditional competition EuroCrest.

The main organizer of the twelfth year of the conference V4DIS is the Association Czech At, co-organizer is the Vysočina Region and this year the Conference was also supported by the International Visegrad Fund (IVF).

More information about the conference V4DIS 2015 as well as about the previous years can be found on www.v4dis.eu or www.isss.cz.

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