Conference Programme

45^th ICA Conference Programme Innovative Government – Learning From the Past, Looking to the Future

Rapidly evolving technologies and tightening budgets have made it both possible and essential for governments world-wide to discover, develop and adopt innovations. They must learn quickly from their own and others’ successes and failures, take calculated risks and innovate with agility. “Innovate or die,” once the catch phrase for dotcom entrepreneurs, is now very much applicable to all players in the global economy. In this conference, ICA will bring together the international IT community to identify and share innovative technologies and techniques to deliver a better citizen experience and a more effective government.

The agenda for the day and the evening of October 10^th is below.

ICA Board, Programme Committee & Council Meetings Tuesday, 11 October 2011
8.20	Bus leaves from Grand Hotel
9.10	Presidential Office Building The activities from 9.10 – 14.30 will be outdoors under shelter. Dress Code: Formal
9.30 – 9.59	Opening Program (Honor Guard of Army, Honor Guard of Students)
10.00 – 10.40	Celebration Ceremony (National Anthem, Address by President)
10.40 – 12.00	Parade (National Force, students, community, and etc.)
12.00 – 16.00	Return to Grand Hotel for a Rest
16.00 – 18.00	Cocktail Party at Taipei Guest House Dress Code: Formal
18.30 – 21.30	Party at the Grand Hotel for ICA Dress Code: Smart Casual
20.30 – 20.50	View Fireworks at Dadaocheng Wharf from Grand Hotel
9.00-12.00	Meeting of ICA Board and Programme Committee Chair: Peter Bruce, Chairman, ICA
12.00-14.00	LUNCH & NETWORKING (lunch provided) Governing Board, Programme Committee & Council Members
14.00-16.30	ICA 45th Annual Council Meeting Chair: Peter Bruce, Chairman, ICA Attendees: Governing Board, Programme Committee, National Representatives and Deputy National Representatives only (no substitutes).
16.30-17.00	Election of Board & Program Committee Members Chair: Frank McDonough, Life Member, ICA Attendees: Governing Board, Programme Committee, National Representatives and Deputy National Representatives only (no substitutes).
17.00-18.00	Welcome and Orientation for New Attendees Chair: Peter Bruce, Chairman, ICA and Larry Caffrey, Treasurer, ICA
18.00	ADJOURN
19:00	Welcome Reception:10th Floor, Grand Hotel Host: Research, Development and Evaluation Commission (RDEC), Taiwan
45^th ICA Conference Programme Innovative Government – Learning From the Past, Looking to the Future Rapidly evolving technologies and tightening budgets have made it both possible and essential for governments world-wide to discover, develop and adopt innovations. They must learn quickly from their own and others’ successes and failures, take calculated risks and innovate with agility. “Innovate or die,” once the catch phrase for dotcom entrepreneurs, is now very much applicable to all players in the global economy. In this conference, ICA will bring together the international IT community to identify and share innovative technologies and techniques to deliver a better citizen experience and a more effective government.
Wednesday, 12 Oct 2011
09.00-09.10	Conference Opening ICA Chair: Peter Bruce, Chairman, ICA
09.10-09.30	Welcome Address by Den-Yih Wu, Premier, Taiwan
09.30-10.00	GROUP PHOTO & BREAK
10.00-10.45	Opening Keynote: “Intelligent Taiwan, Smart City and Green Lifestyle” Chair: Peter Bruce, Chairman, ICA Keynote Speaker: Jin-Fu Chang, Minister without Portfolio, Executive Yuan, Taiwan
10.45-12.15	Panel 1: Insight & Foresight on ICT-Enabled Innovations in Government In this session, the panelists will enable us to “learn from the past” by providing insights into how ICT-enabled innovations have transformed the way government works in various countries; and also allow us to “look to the future” through their foresights of the exciting possibilities that ICT-enabled innovations hold out for governments. Chair: James Kang, Asst Chief Executive/Government CIO, Infocomm Development Authority, Singapore Speakers: New Trends of Innovation for e-Government Toshio Obi, Director, APEC e-Government Research Center; & Director, Institute of e-Government, Waseda University, Japan Budget Cuts, Smaller Federal Government and the Contribution of ICT Olaf Andersen, Deputy Director, Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, Netherlands Insight & Foresight on ICT-Enabled Innovations in Government James Kang, Asst Chief Executive/Government CIO, Infocomm Development Authority, Singapore
12.15 -14.00	LUNCH & NETWORKING (lunch provided)
14.00-16.00	Breakout Session 1: Learning From the Past Eighty percent of new technologies never enter the mainstream (used by 30% of the population). At the same time, Internet, pooh-poohed by Bill Gates of Microsoft and other leaders in our community, was successful, but took 20 years to enter the mainstream. How can you avoid the hype yet make the right choices about the future? Fifty years of innovation in information technology and telecommunications provide lessons learned that we will discuss in this panel and that you can use to position your program and your career. Chair: Frank McDonough, Life Member, ICA Facilitators: Don-Yun Chen, Director, Taiwan e-Governance Research Centre, Taiwan Frank Leyman, Manager International Relations, Fedict, Belgium Vasilis Koulolias, Executive Director, Gov2U, Greece [Coffee break will be served during Breakout session]
16.00-17.00	Highlights from Country Reports 1 Chair: Larry Caffrey, Treasurer, ICA
17.00-18.00	ADJOURN (Buses will leave at 18.00 from the Hotel)
18.00	Taiwan Evening: Taipei World Trade Centre Club Host: Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), Taiwan
Thursday, 13 October 2011
09.00-09.30	Breakout Session Report Back 1 Chair: Frank McDonough, Life Member, ICA
09.30-10.30	Panel 2: Innovative Service Delivery In this session, the panelists will present the innovative service delivery solutions in different countries that make it possible to replace the traditional ways of doing things in the ICT-enabled ones. Finland, for instance, is offering to its citizens the citizen account that replaces the traditional way of delivering government decisions in paper format with the electronic one. Chair: Seppo Kurkinen, Counsellor, State IT Management Unit, Ministry of Finance, Finland Speakers: Citizen Account Seppo Kurkinen, Counsellor, State IT Management Unit, Ministry of Finance, Finland Monitoring Cellular Radiation Nation-wide Shimon Broner, Senior CIO, Ministry of Industry, Trade & Labor, Israel M-Cloud Initiative: Providing IT Services for Society Iurie Turcanu, Chief Technology Officer, e-Government Center, Moldova
10.30-11.00	BREAK
11.00-12.00	Panel 3: Workspace of the Future Technology will be as critical to the workspace of the future as bricks and mortar were in the past. Use of mobile technology enables work to be done from any place at any time, rendering traditional offices obsolete. Social media and instant messaging enable us to communicate with a global audience and attract ideas from thousands of unexpected sources. Along with IT innovations like cloud computing, they will provide unprecedented savings. But this new workspace model will present its own challenges, raising concerns from cybersecurity to e-governance. Chair: Darlene Meskell, Director, GSA Global Government Innovation Networks, USA Speakers: The Innovative Government Workspace in Taiwan Chuan-Te Ho, Director, Department of Information Management, Research, Development and Evaluation Commission, Executive Yuan, Taiwan The Government of Canada's Workplace 2.0 Christine Payant, Director-General, Public Works and Government Services Canada, Enterprise Services Smart and Connected Communities Jeffrey Wang, District Manager, Cisco Systems Taiwan Ltd
12:00-13.00	Highlights from Country Reports 2 Chair: Larry Caffrey, Treasurer, ICA
13.00	PACKED LUNCH ON SITE VISIT
13.00-18.00	Visit to Science Park Administration Trip via High Speed Rail to the Science Park Administration to explore the progress of Taiwan’s high-tech industry! Hsinchu Science Park is a bridge linking Taiwan’s industry to the world, a springboard from which local high-tech companies have been able to leap onto the international arena. The program includes a visit to the Science Park Exploration Museum which introduces the Park’s history as well as showcases many of its notable products in today’s competitive high-tech industry. The tour bus will also make a roundtrip to show Hsinchu Science Park and companies. Leader: Howard Jyan, Deputy Director, Department of Information Management Research, Development & Evaluation Commission, Executive Yuan, Taiwan
18.00	ADJOURN FREE EVENING
Friday, 14 October 2011
09.00-10.00	Technology Vignettes (Live Demos) The purpose of this session is to showcase the experimentation and deployment of innovative and emerging technologies in Government. We aim to stir the imagination of the audience by showing some exciting usage scenarios of leading edge technologies, or even technologies still in research labs today Chair: Howard Jyan, Deputy Director, Department of Information Management Research, Development & Evaluation Commission, Executive Yuan, Taiwan Speakers: Mobile Application in Agriculture Gour-Tsair Pan, Director, Information Management Center, Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan, Taiwan Co-creating a Real-time City Kristian Kloeckl, Research Scientist, SENSEable City Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA Mobile Technology in Healthcare Ain Aaviksoo, Health Policy Programme Director, Praxis Centre for Policy Studies, Estonia
10.00-12.00	Breakout Session 2: Looking to the Future In this breakout session, we will explore solutions that can be enabled through future technology innovations. The sessions will use the discussions from the previous days of learning from the past and the emerging technologies to discuss how these technologies can create an open government (transparent, participatory and collaborative), transform service delivery to the citizens, and create operational efficiencies. Chair:Sharon Dawes, Senior Fellow, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA Facilitators: Sharon Dawes, Senior Fellow, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA Warren Hero, Head of CMS and E- Government Office, Gauteng, South Africa Magnus Enzell, Senior Adviser, Department for ICT Policy, Ministry of Enterprise, Sweden [Note: Coffee break to be taken during discussion.]
12.00 – 12.30	ICA Study Groups Chair: Shimon Broner,Senior CIO, Ministry of Industry, Trade & Labor, Israel Speakers: Study Group Leaders
12.30 – 14.15	LUNCH & NETWORKING ON STUDY GROUP TOPICS (Lunch Provided) [Each study group will have discussion table(s) at lunch for delegates to join in discussion]
14.15 – 14.45	Breakout Session Report Back 2 Chair: Sharon Dawes, Senior Fellow, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA
14.45 – 15.30	Debate: Investment in ICT-enabled Innovations Has Not Delivered Benefits Chair: Pierre Boucher, Deputy CIO, Canada Debaters: Don-Yun Chen, Director, Taiwan e-Governance Research Centre, Taiwan (positive side) Bill McCluggage, Deputy CIO, United Kingdom (negative side)
15.30 – 16.00	BREAK
16.00 – 16.30	Conference Report: Future Leaders Programme Chair: Peter Bruce, Chairman, ICA Speakers: Dawn Chou, Deputy Division Chief, Financial Data Center, Ministry of Finance, Taiwan Emma Gawen, Project Manager, Ministry of Justice, UK Phumeza Stuurman, Senior Manager, e-Gov Monitoring and Evaluation, Gauteng Department of Finance, South Africa
16.30-16.50	Conference Summary Rapporteur: James Mackison, ICA Contributing Consultant, USA
16.50-17.15	Looking ahead to 46th ICA Conference in Jerusalem, Israel– Shimon Broner, Senior CIO, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor, Israel
17.15-17.30	Conference Closing – Peter Bruce, Chairman, ICA
17.30-18.30	ADJOURN (Buses will leave at 18.30 from the Hotel)
18.30	ICA Gala Dinner – Silk Palace ICA Awards Ceremony

45th ICA Conference Programme Innovative Government – Learning From the Past, Looking to the Future

45^th ICA Conference Programme Innovative Government – Learning From the Past, Looking to the Future