EGOVOS 3, Open Source in Government Conference
German Minister Otto Schily and at least 2 other ministers will
be keynoting at EGOVOS 3: Open Standards and Libre Software in
Government conference in Paris, France on November 24-26, 2003.
EGOVOS 3 will bring together the largest number ever of high level
government officials working in Open Source and Free Software. In
addition to the national ministers, 15 senior politicians,
government IT officials and representatives from the European
Commission, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Hungary, Belgium, the
Netherlands, the UK, Australia, Canada, Malaysia, Mexico, Panama
and the US will being making presentations.
The preliminary agenda of public sector speakers is now
available at the EGOVOS website [http://www.egovos.org/nov-2003/agenda.html].
Private sector speakers will be announced shortly.
There is no cost to attend EGOVOS 3, but registration is
required. There are a limited number of seats and it is expected
that the conference will be heavily over-subscribed, so please
register early.
General registration is now open at
http://www.egovos.org/nov-2003/register.html.
Press registration is available at http://www.egovos.org/nov-2003/press.html.
Yours truly,
The EGOVOS 3 International Committee
Philippe Aigrain, France
Jean-Pierre Dardayrol, Conseil Général des
Technologies de l’Information, France
Jean-Claude Dauphin, UNESCO, Intl Org
Jean-Paul Degorce-Dumas, Agence pour la Développement de
l’Administration Électronique France
Jacqueline Dubow, World Bank, Intl Org
Rishab Ghosh, University of Maastricht, Netherlands
Claude Gagné, Industry Canada, Canada
Caroline Halcrow, Office of e-Envoy, Cabinet Office, UK
Barbara Held, Federal Interior Ministry, Germany
Flavia Marzano, Union of Italian Provinces, Italy
Brand Nieman, US Environmental Protection Agency, USA
Tony Stanco, The Center of Open Source & Government, USA
Susan Turnbull, US General Services Administration, USA
Atsushi Yamanaka, UNDP, Intl Org
Raul Zambrano, UNDP, Intl Org
Juan Alfredo Pacheco, IADB, Intl Org
Serge Kapto, UN ICT Task Force