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SENSE4US participation in the 49th ICA Conference, 6th – 9th September 2015, in Stockholm, Sweden

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Created on Friday, 16 October 2015 13:51

The topic of this year’s ICA Conference was “Unleashing mobile government – addressing societal challenges”. For this 49th ICA Conference, the Board and Programme Committee, the Swedish Ministry of Enterprise and eGovlab enriched the four day event programme with interactive workshops and meetings and have included among the participants from many countries, representatives from the industry.

Registered participants came from public administrations and organizations from Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Cyprus, Denmark, ENISA, Estonia, EU, Finland, Israel, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, Moldova, Mozambique, OECD, South Africa, Singapore, Sweden, Taiwan, The Netherlands, The World Bank, United Kingdom, Uruguay, and USA.

SENSE4US was presented on the 7th of September during the Session II:  INTEGRATION OF MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES WITH CITIZEN - CENTRIC APPROACHES. The steady integration of mobile technologies into the everyday lives of people, businesses and governments provides a new context for policy-making for governments and can give rise to new forms of engagement and relationships in the public sphere. Smart phones in combination with easily accessible apps create opportunities for a fast and wide penetration of digital public and social innovations ­– and not simply a support for existing government processes. As a result, new approaches are needed to support a shift from governments anticipating citizens’ and business’s needs (citizen-centric approaches) to citizens and businesses determining their own needs and addressing them in partnership with governments (citizen-driven approaches). This session explored different ways of coping with this new policy-landscape. More information about this conference and its speakers’ presentations are available at: http://www.ica-it.org/