EU-Project CIDRE goes into the 2nd phase

After a successful review meeting of the CIDRE-Consortium at the European Commission in Brussels the EU-project contradicts the 2nd half of its 18 month duration within the eTEN programm “Deploying Trans-European e-Services for All” by an increased focus on the european authorities.

14. April 2008. CIDRE is based on the Berlin project “Mobile Citizen Services” (MoBüD), which aimed at bringing the services of the public authorities closer to the citizens by using mobile equipment and wireless networks. In the context of the EU-project with a basis of country-specific analyses of the legal and organizational conditions field trials were already carried out in the Swedish regions Örnsköldsvik and Ragunda, in the Estonian cities Tartu and Rakvere and in the Dutch region Aa en Hunze.

The first evaluations were focused on the usability and ease of use of the mobile citizen services. Thereby they not only give information about information and support services beeing especially appropriate for mobile offer, but also face a high acceptance by citizens and civil servants. As well the press in the different test regions embraces the trial of bringing services of the authorities closer to the citizens. In meantime the Dutch municipality Aa en Hunze takes the position of a precursor by the technical realisation of WLAN within the Dutch administration. In this context the first securitiy concepts for the mobile citizen services already could draft.

The next steps will cover the continuation of the existing field trials and the validation of further european test regions. Additionally the focus will depend on the analysis of the different administrations and the communication with these authorities to get essential data for the business and deployment plan. Furthermore the development of a security handbook with respective guidelines and checklists for the local authorities has started yet.

TimeKontor AG
Stephanie Vogel
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Project coordinator of CIDRE is the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications Heinrich-Hertz-Institute (Germany). Further equal partners of the consortium are TimeKontor AG (Germany), Senate of the Interior of Berlin (Germany), Mid Sweden University (Sweden), Apprise (Estonia) and Gemeente Aa en Hunze (Netherlands).

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