Rui Barros presents the Digital Local Agenda in Estonia

Rui Barros presents the Digital Local Agenda in Estonia

Rui Barros, researcher at INESC Porto, was present at the “Prioritizing innovation and moving towards Common Methodology for the Digital Local Agenda (DLA)” conference, where he presented the Community of Practice, ELANET CoP, as part of project CEMSDI. The conference took place on 4th May in Tartu (Estonia).

15th June 2011

This conference comes within the scope of the implementation of the Digital Local Agenda, promoted by the project consortium “DLA Project”, funded by the INTERREG IV Programme. Rui Barros took part in the presentation as the DLA is closely linked to the ELANET network and the  EISCO conferences.

The event, promoted by the DLA Project, aimed to present the evolution of the work on the implementation of the Digital Local Agenda (DLA) in diverse countries in Europe, and in particular, those countries that are participating in these two projects. This participation in the project revealed two separate approaches that have had similar results. The first approach looks at identifying practice cases and the second approach defines the methodology and its implementation. Both approaches covered plenty of common ground.

Rui Barros, from INESC Porto, represented project CEMSDI along with Andrea Guarise, from INOVA Spa. Rui Barros’s presentation focused on the evolution of the DLA since the EISCO conference in 2005, the European network, ELANET and the materialisation through projects such as CEMSDI. Andrea Guarise presented project CEMSDI and the results achieved so far, and explained that in the future the aim would be to complete pilot experiments for the project. The presentation concluded with a presentation, by Rui Barros, on the Community of Practice – ELANET CoP, its purpose and explaining how specialists, practitioners or observers that are interested in the CoP, can join it.

The subject is particularly interesting as the European Commission is currently launching its own Digital Agenda for Europe, defining the areas of intervention and the respective lines of action. Current projects are bringing these two Agendas closer together to align their concepts and show clear signs of integration and cooperation on different administrative levels,  on a European level and a citizen and local level.

Source: BIP May 2011