20-May-2006

Tecnimap 2006

Juan Palacio in Navegapolis posts a link to Tecnimap 2006, a conference of the public administration in Spain with representatives from the ITC community.

What is Tecnimap?

TECNIMAP is the conference for those involved in the Spanish Civil Service to share ideas and experiences about modernisation and the application of information technologies in public administration.

TECNIMAP started in 1989 and is an event held every two years. The first conference was in Madrid, and the latest was in Murcia in 2004. This meeting, the ninth, will be held from 30th May to 2nd June in the Palacio de Congressos in Seville. About 10,000 participants are expected to attend and 200 companies will be showing off their products and solutions for the public administration bodies.

The sub-title of the conference, “Information technologies for the modernisation of public administration,” is more relevant today than ever before. Electronic administration or e-government is seen everywhere as the most important means of modernisation and innovation in the public services and in the relationship between citizens and companies with the administration. Very important advances have already been made in some areas, and everything points to the possibility of a radical transformation in the efficiency of administrative processes, benefiting the users of these services.

Professional public employees as users of ITC services and leaders of the three Administrations will be meeting in Seville, together with academics, experts in public administrations and companies working on the technology. They will be thinking about the challenges and opportunities that are currently available in the sector, and the path towards the simplification and integration of processes that will make the lives of citizens easier and the administration more efficient.