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Electronic Stability Control to improve safety of trucks and coaches (16
November 2007)The safety of European registered trucks and tourist
coaches will be greatly improved as a result of an agreement reached at
a United Nations meeting in Geneva to equip new vehicles with electronic
stability control systems. Electronic stability control (ESC) avoids
accidents by helping the driver maintain control of the vehicle in
critical situations. It is estimated that equipping these vehicles with
ESC system could ultimately save over 500 deaths and 2500 serious
injuries per year in the European Union.
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
EU-IndiaGrid Conference: Paving the Ground for a Grid-enabled e-Science
Community
13 December 2007 - 14 December 2007 Bangalore, IndiaOrganised in
conjunction with eScience 2007, this Conference will facilitate Grid
adoption across different scientific domains, and support
knowledge-sharing and co-operation across frontiers. The aim is to
foster the development of a sustainable basis for current and future
users and act as a catalyst for the deployment of current and new
applications. The benefits of the EU-IndiaGrid Infrastructure will be
showcased in sessions dedicated to Bio-Informatics, Grid Industrial
Applications, Interoperability & Certification Authority, and
EU-worldwide Grid projects. Registration is free of charge.
eScience 2007: http://www.escience2007.org/index.asp
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
Grids and other eInfrastructures for Education
26 November 2007 - 27 November 2007 Edinburgh, United KingdomThis
brainstorming event will focus on examining e-Education and how new
e-Infrastructure community members can benefit from its use through
developed infrastructures. It will also highlight the diversity that
Grid Technology-Infrastructures can bring to e-Education on a global
basis and will showcase practical examples by representatives from
research, academia and enterprise. The event will take place in
collaboration with the High Throughput Computing (HTC) Week. It is
organised by BELIEF, an international project funded by the EU's Sixth
Framework Programme. The project promotes effective development and
exploitation of e-Infrastructures. It creates synergies between
e-Infrastructures communities and builds a digital library containing
documentation produced by e-Infrastructure initiatives worldwide.
High Throughput Computing Week: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/831/
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
A Fine Balance 2007 - Privacy Enhancing Technologies
21 November 2007 London, United Kingdom"Privacy Enhancing Technologies"
(PETs) is the name given to a family of emerging hardware and software
products identified by the European Commission as a preferred way to
make it easier for people to protect their privacy. On 2 May 2007 the
Commission adopted a Communication "Promoting Data Protection by Privacy
Enhancing Technologies", in which it calls for stepping up research and
development of PETs. Within this context, this event will bring together
representatives from major stakeholders to recommend areas for future
research, as well as strategies and activities to advance privacy
enhancing technologies.
IS Portal > Activities > PETs:
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/privtech/index_en.htm
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
Workshop on Organizational Change for Citizen centric eGovernment
19 November 2007 Brussels, BelgiumThe Organizational Change for Citizen
centric eGovernment study (cc:eGov) is hosting this final dissemination
event. The programme features Matt Poelmans from the Dutch e-citizen
programme; Christoforos Korakas, highlighting the results of local
participation in Trikala (Greece); Martin Brown, from the Scottish Local
Government programme, and Lene Hartig Danielsen, from Aarhus (Denmark),
talking about how that municipality is leading the way. The aim of the
cc:eGov project was to look at the relationship between organisational
change and the delivery of citizen-centric eGovernment services.
cc:eGov website: http://www.ccegov.eu/
NEWS ARTICLE
Techno-footprint : ICT and Sustainability in the Public Sector (29
November 2007)Large information and communications technology (ICT)
systems form a significant part of a modern public sector body's carbon
footprint, and all bodies must now work on ways of reducing their
impact. Conversely, ICT systems can play a valuable role in reducing
organisations' wider carbon footprints, for example by reducing the need
for travel through videoconferencing. This event aims to bring together
lessons from best practice in environmental sustainability from across
the field of public sector ICT, and offer practical advice on drawing up
strategies to reduce the carbon footprint of public sector services.
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EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
Insights into IST RTD policies in Eastern Europe: Fostering innovation
in the "Great European East"
21 November 2007 Sofia, BulgariaThis Great-IST project final conference
will focus on the adoption of a more consistent IST RTD approach in the
eleven project target countries - Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, FYROM, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania,
Serbia, Ukraine. Another focus will be on the improvement of their IST
legislative and institutional infrastructure through the presentation
and the discussion of the final results of the Great-IST project. The
conference is organised in the framework of the 10th Summit Economic
Forum of the Central European Initiative (CEI).
IST Research & Development Policies in Eastern Europe - Insights and
Recommendations Fostering Innovation:
http://www.great-ist.org/finalreport.html
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
ETNO 5th Annual Conference
22 November 2007 Brussels, BelgiumCoinciding with the publication of
the Commission's proposals for the review of the EU regulatory
framework, this year's conference of the European Telecommunications
Network Operators' Association will be devoted to 'Finding the right
balance - Developing a regulatory framework for tomorrow's markets'. The
event will provide an opportunity for debate between experts from EU
institutions, telecoms operators and member states, on technology
developments and the most appropriate regulatory environment for today's
competitive markets.
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