Research Partners

Tingtun AS (NO)

http://www.tingtun.no

Co-ordinator of the eGovMon project.
Tingtun was founded in 1996 to deliver consultancy services in the technical field. Today the company provide consultancy services internationally in the area of eGovernment building. The services are based on an open policy, building on Open Source Software, and open standards to develop universally designed and transparent eGovernment services.

Related to eGovernment the company has experience from large scale benchmarking including online data collection, web mining, and data analysis. Tingtun is also engaged in training and dissemination activities to enable improvements of public sector organization and services. The company staff has experience from leading roles in several European projects include the European Internet Accessibility Observatory, and currently participates in the eGovMoNet project.

The Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (DIFI) (NO)

http://www.difi.no

The Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (Difi) aims to strengthen the government’s work in renewing the Norwegian public sector and improve the organisation and efficiency of government administration.

Difi works to ensure that government administration in Norway is characterised by values of excellence, efficiency, user-orientation, transparency and democracy. We aim to develop the organisation and leadership of the public sector, with coordination among public authorities and services.

The Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities (KS) (NO)

http://www.ks.no

The Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities (KS) is the only employers’ association and interest organisation for municipalities, counties and local public enterprises in Norway. The association was founded in 1972 as a result of an amalgamation of The Union of Norwegian Cities (founded in 1903) and the Norwegian Association of Rural Municipalities (founded in 1923). As of April 2006 all of the 431 municipalities and 19 counties are members, as well as approx. 500 public enterprises. KS advises and informs the members about all matters and developments of importance to local government. KS also facilitates exchange of experience between its members.

Norwegian Post and Telecommunications Authority (NPT) (NO)

http://www.npt.no

NPT is an autonomous administrative agency under the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications, with monitoring and regulatory responsibilities for the postal and telecommunications markets in Norway. The NPT is self-financed, primarily through fees and charges.

The Delta Centre (NO)

http://www.shdir.no/deltasenteret/english/

The work of the Delta Centre concerns how the use of assistive technology and adaptation of the environment together yields a better standard of living for persons with disabilities. Our vision is participation and accessibility for all. The objective is that disabled people should have the same opportunities as others to participate in an active way in society.

Deloitte (BE)

http://www.deloitte.com

Deloitte Consulting (DELOITTE) is one the world’s largest professional services organisations with presence in 150 countries and access to the deep intellectual capital of 200,000 people worldwide. Deloitte has offices in every key city in thirty-one European countries (300 offices in EU27 for a total of 20,000 professionals). Deloitte brings proven relationship with the European Commission on policy matters, an excellent network into the European public sector and a rich worldwide practice in eGovernment, government modernization, and performance improvement.

Copenhagen Business School (DK)

http://www.cbs.dk

The Department for Informatics at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) is one of the leading research and teaching institutions in Europe in the field of information systems within the business and the public spheres. CBS is a recognized research institution, hosting the 2005 DEXA eGovernment Conference and hosting the 2008 Nordic Conference on eGovernment. Also, the researchers at CBS have published
several books and a substantial number of journal papers and conference papers on eGovernment research, and are involved in research collaborative activities internationally.

FTB (DE)

http://www.ftb-net.de

Research Institute for Technology and Disability (FTB) coordinates all research activities in the Evangelische Stiftung Volmarstein, a rehabilitation centre with about 1200 employees and experience in rehabilitation for more than 100 years which serves people with disability or disease of all ages. FTB activities include requirement analysis, research, development, evaluation, advice, and exploitation of assistive technology. It is associated with FernUniversität Hagen and University of Dortmund. Since its formation, FTB has been involved in many national and European R&D projects. FTB’s experience most relevant for eGovMoNet comprises various projects on web accessibility (EIAO, AbI, BIK-NRW). As partner in the EIAO project, FTB is also involved in the WAB Cluster and the development of the Unified Web Evaluation Methodology (UWEM). In the eGovernment field, FTB has contributed to the German eGovernment Manual.

MIP–Politecnico di Milano (IT)

http://www.mip.polimi.it

Milan Polytechnic University (MIP) is one of the most prestigious European schools offering business and management training to graduates from all disciplines. MIP is both a teaching and a research institution whose vision is to focus on echnology as tool to be closely integrated with the management and organisational dimensions of institutions in order to better manage and innovate. MIP runs 15 steady “ICT Observatories” (including one specialised on quality of eGovernment services in Italy), which provide a comprehensive and up to date view of new technological trends and development and which will serve as a strategic asset upon which this study can build. As a matter of fact, MIP as a whole brings to this study the contribution of its long standing tradition of research in general and of experience in particular in FP5 and FP6 projects carried out on various Information Society topics in general , and in particular on such eGovernment IP projects as TERREGOV and QUALEG.

Aalborg University (DK)

http://en.aau.dk

Center for Data-intensive Systems (Daisy) in Aalborg University's (AAU) Department of Computer Science currently has some 20 members of staff and embodies quite extensive experience with the design, prototyping, and testing of data-intensive systems. Daisy maintains an evolving portfolio of externally funded international and national research projects that currently includes one EU project.
Daisy’s staff has conducted research in the area of data-intensive systems, and recent evaluations rank these activities at the highest level worldwide. In particular, Daisy embodies extensive experience with technologies such as service-oriented architectures, data streams, temporal data management, data warehousing, web-based systems, and publish-subscribe functionality.

Vestfold University College (NO)

http://www.hive.no

Vestfold University College (HIVE) is a medium-sized institution of higher education offering undergraduate and graduate programs in Social Science, Education, Nursing, Engineering and Maritime Studies. Current enrollment is 3000 full time students. HIVE has more than 250 faculty members in five faculties. The Faculty of Social Science is located in Horten, 100 kilometers south of Oslo, and has a multidisciplinary research group working on e-government, e-democracy and related themes.

University of Agder (UIA) (NO)

http://www.uia.no

The University of Agder (UIA) is the youngest university in Norway. The Faculty of Engineering and Science is located in Grimstad. Most of the courses are now available in English. The ICT department of UIA is known to have strong co-operation with industry and the public sector both in terms of student's projects, guest lectures and as joint research. Accessibility to Web content has through the EIAO project and several national related projects gained interest both from government on all levels and from industry.