Smart communities - Economic development in a Global Information Society
8 September 1997 - 8 September 1997
France
A week-long conference on "Smart communities shaping the future - Economic development in a Global Information Society" will take place in Sophia Antipolis, France, and Rome, Italy, from 8 to 12 September 1997. The event is organized by the Sophia Antipolis foundation, ITEMS International and the Worldwide Media Group Inc., in cooperation with the European Commission (DG XIII).
The aim of the conference is to bring together representatives from Europe, Japan, the United States and Asia to discuss developments in the fields of telecommunications policy and information and communications technology applications. This meeting is one of a series, supported by DG XIII, which aims to ensure regular contacts at the highest level between these global regions.
The first half of the meeting will take place in Sophia Antipolis, from Monday 8 September until lunchtime on Wednesday 10 September. Participants will then fly to Rome, where the remainder of the conference will take place on Thursday 11 and Friday 12 September.
The themes for the sessions will be as follows:
- Smart communities: the challenge of convergence;
- Forging links between business and government, trade and investment;
- Smart communities: cooperation in advanced applications;
- Development and business opportunities for industry and service providers;
- Smart communities and the new regulatory landscape;
- Identifying barriers to deployment;
- Specific problems concerned with capital cities and megapolis.
A number of speakers from the European Commission have been invited, including Mr. Martin Bangemann, Commissioner responsible for industry and telecommunications. Other Commission speakers include Mr Robert Verrue, Director-General of DG XIII (Telecommunications, information market and exploitation of research), Mr. Michel Richonnier, Director responsible for the Telematics Applications programme, and Mr. Jörg Wenzel, Chief Adviser from the Information Society Project Office (ISPO). Other speakers will come from national and local governments from around the world, and major industrial companies in the information and communications technologies fields.
For further information, please contact:
ITEMS International
Sylviane Toporkoff
Europe/North America/Japan/Asia Forum
6 rue Jean-Baptiste Potin
F-92170 Vanves
Tel. +33-1-46424876; Fax +33-1-41089427
The aim of the conference is to bring together representatives from Europe, Japan, the United States and Asia to discuss developments in the fields of telecommunications policy and information and communications technology applications. This meeting is one of a series, supported by DG XIII, which aims to ensure regular contacts at the highest level between these global regions.
The first half of the meeting will take place in Sophia Antipolis, from Monday 8 September until lunchtime on Wednesday 10 September. Participants will then fly to Rome, where the remainder of the conference will take place on Thursday 11 and Friday 12 September.
The themes for the sessions will be as follows:
- Smart communities: the challenge of convergence;
- Forging links between business and government, trade and investment;
- Smart communities: cooperation in advanced applications;
- Development and business opportunities for industry and service providers;
- Smart communities and the new regulatory landscape;
- Identifying barriers to deployment;
- Specific problems concerned with capital cities and megapolis.
A number of speakers from the European Commission have been invited, including Mr. Martin Bangemann, Commissioner responsible for industry and telecommunications. Other Commission speakers include Mr Robert Verrue, Director-General of DG XIII (Telecommunications, information market and exploitation of research), Mr. Michel Richonnier, Director responsible for the Telematics Applications programme, and Mr. Jörg Wenzel, Chief Adviser from the Information Society Project Office (ISPO). Other speakers will come from national and local governments from around the world, and major industrial companies in the information and communications technologies fields.
For further information, please contact:
ITEMS International
Sylviane Toporkoff
Europe/North America/Japan/Asia Forum
6 rue Jean-Baptiste Potin
F-92170 Vanves
Tel. +33-1-46424876; Fax +33-1-41089427