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| One NorthEast http://www.onenortheast.co.uk (fr) One NorthEast is the Regional Development Agency (RDA) covering the North East region of England, comprising Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, County Durham and Tees Valley. This website promotes the work of the Agency and the vision for a vibrant, self reliant, ambitious and outward looking North East of England together with the benefits of living, working and doing business in the region. |
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| DFKI http://www.iwi.uni-sb.de/ The Institute for Information Systems (Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik - IWi) at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany combines education with the creation of new knowledge and provides a fertile setting for inter-disciplinary. IWi’s research explores promising computing technology and current management methods for the benefit of companies and public administration. The research of IWi is based on a close relationship between academic theory and entrepreneurial practice. An interdisciplinary team composed of scientific collaborators with a masters or a doctorate degree in business administration, engineering, public administration or computer science are working on a wide range of topics reaching from basic research over applied research to the development of prototypes as well as technology transfer. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. August-Wilhelm Scheer is the director of the institute, that he founded in 1979 and also the chair of business administration and business information systems at Saarland University. |
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| Infocert http://www.infocert.it Infocert S.p.A. was established in 2007 as a new Company of the InfoCamere Group. It has been fcreated as a merge of the fore-existing IC Solution, which changed its name in Infocert, and of two marketing and technical branches of InfoCamere committed to the production and distribution of IT – especially cryptographic – services. The merge has had full effect from July 1th 2007. InfoCert has issued so far more than 2.600.000 certificates for qualified electronic signature, more than 100.000 mailboxes of Certified Electronic Mail, a huge amount of smart cards to use for electronic signatures and about 280.000 tachograph cards. |
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| Karobas http://www.karobas.fr Karobas is a SME active in 3D imaging and educational games. It proposes a massively multi-player environment in which children learn how to behave in society. This system is in place in several regions in France (Franche Comté, Bouches du Rhône, Provence-Alpes Côte d'Azur) under the responsibility of either Conseil Général or Conseil Régional or cities (Cannes). Karobas will integrate eID based security to open the game between France, Belgium and UK without fear for child abuse over the school IT network. |
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| Metadat http://www.metadat.com Solution provider of BKA in the areas of IT with a focus on UML and ontology, METADAT holds competitive architecture and tools allowing the delivery of individual enterprise solutions for management of knowledge represented by large heterogeneous dynamic multimedia data sets. METATAT offers enterprise solutions and services to satisfy the recently growing constituency of users articulating the need for a new class of information processing systems which: - create sustainable and ubiquitously reusable knowledge, as well as - distil the required knowledge potentially available in conventional databases, data warehouses, and other geographically distributed public and private information repositories. Best offered as enterprise solutions and services, such systems should facilitate archiving of mission critical information as purpose and application oriented data clusters. On the other side, in response to emerging needs for particular information, required systems should allow exploring and fostering the data adequate for given application context, including legacy data, in users' own and in third party repositories, and in public domain. Within R4eGov METADAT will be primarily responsible for the content management system following the functional requirements of the Austrian BKA. Further, METADAT will contribute to the design, development, implementation, and trial of secure information access architecture and policy as well as information security architecture and policy. |
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| SAP http://www.sap.com Founded in 1972, SAP is the recognized leader in providing collaborative business solutions for all types of industries and for every major market. Headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, SAP is the world's largest inter-enterprise software company, and the world's third-largest independent software supplier overall. SAP employs over 28,900 people in more than 50 countries. Our professionals are dedicated to providing high-level customer support and services. SAP has extensive experience in managing large quantities of user data with highly structured content, and in integrating digital signatures in electronic transactions, both in e-government and e-business environments. Moreover, SAP is involved in all important application-oriented standardization committees that deal with these two topics. SAP Research is the technology research department of SAP, engaged in applied research and development at various research centers worldwide. Targeted to establish SAP as the thought leader in the area of innovative and breakthrough information technology, SAP Research determines the business value of new technologies and introduces new technology and concepts for future solutions that will be of strategic importance to SAP customers. Passed on to the appropriate SAP development group the new technology will be integrated into new or existing SAP offerings. In previous and ongoing IST IP projects (eJustice and Trustcom) has gained valuable experience in the area of security and workflow management and has transferred technology to SAP’s public sector groups. These public sector groups, their solution architects and thus SAP’s existing public sector customers have been closely involved in the preparation of this proposal. |
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| Thales http://www.thales-security.com Thales Identification is among the world leaders for the development and supply of secured identification production systems. The company presents a global offering of ID systems and services, as well as customized technical solutions for the specific requirements of its clients. The offer includes secured ID technology systems for paper documents (IDs, drivers licenses, resident aliens cards, passports, ...), plastic documents as well as for documents with integrated smart cards. With R4eGov, Thales expects a leading role in the Titre Fondateur project for the French administration and developing e government applications, taking advantage of the expertise of the Thales group in security of information system and of transaction management. Thales will provide biometry and card expertise, and support and equipment for demonstrations. |
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| Unisys http://www.unisys.com/be In addition to Stimer, Unisys is in 2003 the most important Belgian public sector integrator, with the largest eGovernment application (Ministry of Finance Portal), the largest document management system (unemployment dossiers and professional training) and other projects for the European Institutions in the field of quality control, technical assistance and management consulting for DG JAI (Schengen SIS II), TAXUD, Environment, Internal Market, Transport, Enterprise, Information society, SANCO, DI, OLAF, OPOCE and the European Parliament. As IT integrator, Unisys Belgium maintains a document management and workflow team having achieved many projects, obtaining the AIIM “grand prix” 2000 for a large (900 employees) workflow implementation in a public utility energy distribution service[1]. This experience is now used at the European Parliament in a pioneer project for modelling and reengineering the law elaboration processes. |
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| WebForce http://www.accellence.fr (en) A fast-growing SME that developed an eLearning platform compliant with the IEEE P1481 (LTSA) standard, it created the brand "Accellence" to distribute the mixed learning concept it had developed. With Accellence, it successfully introduced ICT to over 20.000 French notary personnel (50% of the entire population) in less than a year using this platform, which seems to be the only commercial European competitor to US products. In the project, it will identify the most appropriate mechanisms to train the pilot population (on site, off-site, e-Learning, mixed learning), it will collect the technical information from the technical partners, and reformulate it in a form appropriate for the trainees. It will deliver (or assist the administrations for the delivery) the courses, control the efficiency and follow-up and refresh knowledge via the web. |
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| Eurécom http://www.eurecom.fr Institut Eurécom is a graduate school of engineering and research institute in telecommunications located in Sophia Antipolis, France. It is a consortium of industrial and academic members including EPFL, Télécom Paris, Swisscom, Hasler Stiftung, Thalès, SFR, France Telecom, HITACHI Europe, Texas Instruments, ST Microelectronics, Bouygues Telecom, SHARP, Politecnico di Torino and Helsinki University of Technology. Eurécom's Engineering Education is unique and exciting. In 1994 Eurécom received the major Educational Innovation Award from IEEE. The 70 Eurécom scientists perform cutting edge research in critical areas of communications and networking, including mobile and wireless communications, Internet and Web protocols, security and electronic commerce. Eurécom's academic and research activities are organised in three areas: Corporate Communications; Mobile Communications; and Multimedia Communications. Eurécom has participated in several European projects (BETEL, BETEUS, NICE, SUZIE, WEB4GROUPS, WAND, ESW, WITNESS, MOBYDICK, SPATION) in the ACTS, Telematics and TEN TELECOM and IST Programmes and is currently involved in the PRIME, E-justice, DAIDALOS, WIDENS, E2R, GMF4iTV, DIVINES projects and E-Next, NEWCOM and NEXWAY NoE's of FP6, in the MOBILEMAN project of the FET programme and the 3W3S project as part of the Safer Internet Action Plan. The Institute is also involved in a number of national research projects supported by the French RNRT programme: SEVA, ICARE, METROPOLIS, VTHD++, PAESTUM, AUBE, COBASCA, SAMU, ERMITAGES, PLATON, ANTIPODE, @IRS++. In this project, Eurécom will progress its research on roles definition, role based access control and integration with workflows. |
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| University of Leeds http://www.leeds.ac.uk/jmce The University of Leeds in among the top ten universities in the United Kingdom with over 32,000 students, 58 inter-disciplinary research centres, and the highest level of industrial investment of UK universities. A member of the World University Network, it is one of the most experienced and largest Erasmus players with extensive links across the globe. Its inter-disciplinary Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence is part of the international network of Jean Monnet centres and has international research links with academe, governments, the EU and private and public sectors around the world. It regularly engages with policymakers at the highest levels and its research agenda addresses current policy priorities, notably in respect of freedom, security and justice and the associated issues. The JMECE works with other centres on matters of trust and privacy in the field of egovernment and participation, EU security( also with CHALLENGE f6p), migration, and communication. In R4eGov, it focuses on secure e-mobility in education eEH-Erasmus and eConsul. Its work draws on eJustice. Prof Juliet Lodge (Leeds) with Dr Andrew Robinson (French Consul) animate the work of the Communication, Ethics and Technology committee. It is based in the Institute of Communication Studies (ICS) with close links with the media, notably the BBC. Its work on communications spans digi-media applications, egovernance, security, policing, terrorism and symbols and cultural presentation. The JMECE is one of the very few such bodies to have as part of its brief the task and readiness to engage in non-academic communication at the level closest to the citizen. |
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| Max Planck Institute http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de Part of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft z.F.d.W, the institute is devoted to cutting-edge research in computer science with a focus on algorithms and their applications in a broad sense. Our research ranges from foundations (algorithms and complexity, programming logics) to a variety of application domains (computer graphics, geometric computation, constraint solving, computational biology). In our view, computer science is the community of people who strive for reasoning mathematically and/or formally about the behavior of algorithms and who build systems based on their theoretical insights. Consequently, some of our fundamental research is of a fairly rigorous mathematical character. Some of that research lies in established fields of theoretical computer science (algorithms and complexity, programming logics). Other work explores new ground motivated by problems that arise in specific application domains (computer graphics, geometric computation, constraint solving, computational biology). Our Programming Logic Department will provide expertise in the area of formal modelling and verification of business processes to adapt relevant research results to the proof of judicial workflow requirements. |
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| University of Hamburg http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/SVS The Research Unit "Security in Distributed Systems" was founded in early 2004, when Prof. Joachim Posegga moved from SAP Corporate Research to the University of Hamburg. Our research is focussed on application-oriented security, i.e., we taking a view which considers security as a property of applications and not as a value per se. The main application areas we consider are enterprise (e-business) applications, mobile and wireless applications, as well as the upcoming world of ubiquitous/pervasive computing. All these areas have in common that security is a key property, in particular for commercial applications. The challenge for security research is to understand these areas and their implications, and then to provide suitable means to help develop and operate secure applications under their given constraints. This can, and likely will, require a paradigm shift in security from protecting infrastructures to protecting applications: In the past IT was focused on a client/server architectures and security meant protecting network infrastructures. Security was communication-oriented and completely separated from applications. We are currently observing that mobile applications and pervasive networks are taken into account (GPRS, WLAN, etc). The predominant security paradigm consists of extending the previously deployed perimeter security paradigm by technical means like VPNs, or encrypted tunnels. The next wave in computing will take advantage of distributing functionality to pervasive devices, based on loosely coupled components (Web Services). For security, this means a radical shift: Neither network architectures, nor computing infrastructures can cope with the dynamics of such scenarios any more, and the strategic message for security is to become application-centric: applications themselves need to provide their own security, since they become the focal point in this new world. |
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| University of Koblenz http://www.uni-koblenz-landau.de (en) The Institute of Informatics in Business and Government at the University of Koblenz-Landau is part of the Informatics Domain. It is grouped into three units that research and teach the fields of eGovernment, business process management and knowledge management. The group of Public Management will carry out the work in the Project R4EGOV, since its main focus of research is eGovernment. In more details, topics in research cover issues such as eGovernment strategies, one-stop Government (single window), eGovernment process and workflow management, ontology developments, content structuring and knowledge portals for eGovernment, standardisation and integration of eGovernment components, and eGovernment knowledge management in general. The head of the research group Public Management at the Institute organises a series of eGovernment specific events such as the international EGOV conferences within DEXA (http://www.dexa.org), the international conferences on Knowledge Management in eGovernment (KMGOV), the Austrian and Eastern European e|Gov Days (http://egov.ocg.at/eeegovdays/), and others. |
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| Bundesgerichtshof http://www.bundesgerichtshof.de The BGH is the supreme court in Germany. The Bundesgerichtshof will collaborate in the Public Sector Case Studies of the project and will be a member of the User Group, thus serving as a case study and possible as a secondary pilot. As the BGH is already a member of Bundonline 2005, the German national initiative on eGovernment, it will help liaise R4eGov with Bundonline 2005. |
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| Bundeskanzleramt http://www.bka.gv.at BKA, The Chancellor's Office of the Republic of Austria, fulfills on behalf of Austrian government duties closely related to the specific goals of the project. In particular, BKA operates the national legal information system. It is commonly used as a legally binding information tool by Austrian public administration (in a dedicated Internet) as well as, free of charge, by Austrian citizens over public Internet (www.ris.bka.gv.at). The current system undergoes nowadays modification toward incorporation of XML-based documents those result from emerging computer augmented law creation process, and toward more ubiquitous user interfaces facilitating legal security as well as - among others - the access for impaired citizens. Following the decisions made at the end of 2004 within eJustice, it will later integrate security based on personal eID. Within this project, BKA is looking for methodology and technology for next generation of legal information systems those may serve public servants and citizens facilitating their access to the legal information in European context. BKA expects that the project will provide the framework for research, development of such systems, and proof these systems during their trial exploitation. The responsibility of BKA within this project would be focused on the provision of functional requirements resulting from the long-term experience with the RIS, and for the provision of operational environment and local data for the pilot of a legal information system aimed by the project. BKA will manage the work of the technical partners involved in the development of the new service, and principally METADAT. |
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| Eurojust http://www.eurojust.europa.eu (en) One of the main objectives of Eurojust is to improve and enhance cooperation between the judicial authorities of the Member States. The efficiency of the exchange process in a multi-national environment relies on the availability of technical facilities to securely transmit the information. As such any project looking to improve these capabilities provides a significant interest for Eurojust. We will bring to the project experienced user knowledge in a multi national law enforcement environment. Furthermore, our relatively new technical environment and progressive approach to security issues offers an excellent test environment for a research project. Since February 2005, Eurojust is conducting a study with eJustice as to how to integrate eJustice security to enable its members conduct their activities via a secured network. In R4eGov, Eurojust will participate to the User Group. The objective is to help convince Member States Justice administrations to adopt interoperable solutions. A secure European Arrest Warrant controlled process might be developed for use by Eurojust members and for demonstrations to other judicial instances in Europe as a secondary pilot. Eurojust will study with Europol the feasibility of a trial that would link the two administrations via communicating workflows technology. Administrative constraints make this kind of trial difficult to conduct. The scope of a European RTD project will make it easier. Eurojust is an European organisation. As such, it may receive no funding from the EC for this project. |
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| FedICT http://www.fedict.be (en) FEDICT is in charge of all e-Government programs for the Belgian federal administration. One of its projects is the federal portal, where citizens have access to public service information. Another project concerns the national ID card: Belgium was one of the first Member States to put in place an e-ID with electronic signature. In 2004, FEDICT decided to secure the schools digital network with this e-ID card in order to fight the paedophile attacks against school children via the chat. Forty such attacks had indeed been identified. In this project, FEDICT will develop with the R4eGov technical partners an adequate security for its school network, and it will make sure that the mechanism allows secure communications with the other partners (school systems in France and UK). It will also investigate the biometric mechanisms proposed for e-ID by the partners, and survey, using its portal, the reactions of the citizens to this technology, before considering its integration in a next version of the e-ID card as well as into future eGovernment applications for Belgium. |
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| Greffe du tribunal de Commerce de Paris http://www.greffe-tc-paris.fr (en) The Greffier du Tribunal de Commerce is an essential member of the court. He/she assists the court in hearings and in all legal cases, but does not participate in the carrying out of court orders. As an officier public et ministériel (agent invested with public powers), the Greffier of the Commercial Court is appointed by the Ministry of Justice. He/she may operate either on an individual basis or as member of a company. In France, there are 251 Greffiers for 191 Commercial Courts. The same person may be Greffier of several Commercial Courts within the jurisdiction of a "cour d’appel" (court of appeal). The reform of the Commercial Courts has reduced the number of Greffiers of the Commercial Court by closing 36 Commercial Courts as of 1 January, 2000. Tribunal de Commerce de Paris is the first to have deployed a PKI and support tools that allow an entrepreneur to do all the paperwork needed to create a new company entirely online, and then to interface with the Administration. In R4eGov, we will be a member of the User Group, preparing the introduction of strong security in the digital exchanges between French commerce tribunals and its users who are mainly the companies established in France. |
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| Europol http://europol.europa.eu Europol is the European Union law enforcement organisation that handles criminal intelligence. Its aim is to improve the effectiveness and co-operation between the competent authorities of the Member States in preventing and combating serious international organised crime and terrorism. The mission of Europol is to make a significant contribution to the European Union’s law enforcement action against organised crime and terrorism with an emphasis on targeting criminal organisations. Europol supports the law enforcement activities of the Member States mainly against illicit drug trafficking, illicit immigration networks and trafficking in human beings including child pornography, terrorism, forgery of money (counterfeiting of the Euro) and money-laundering, illicit vehicle trafficking. Other main priorities for Europol include crimes against persons, financial crime and cyber crime. All of these apply where an organised criminal structure is involved and two or more Member States are affected. Europol is also active in promoting crime analysis and harmonisation of investigative techniques within the Member States. The Europol Convention states that Europol shall establish and maintain a computerised system to allow the input, access and analysis of data. The Convention lays down a strict framework for human rights and data protection, control, supervision and security. Since international organised crime does not stop at national borders, Europol has in addition improved its international law enforcement co-operation by negotiating bilateral operational or strategic agreements with other states and international organisations. Europol participation in the project is based on the need to establish effective guidelines for data flow exchange among administrations taking into consideration the multiple areas in which administrations' requirements differ in the field of security, control and data protection and confidentiality. Europol will contribute also by participating to a demonstration phase in which the results of the previous activities will be used to prove the practical effectiveness of the models established. |
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