DATE / TIME:

2019•02•25    10:00 - 17:00

Location:

Guimarães

The United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV) and the Portuguese Administrative Modernization Agency (AMA) are co-organisers of the international conference on Progress of Digital Government Transformation: The 2018 UN e-Government Survey, to be held on 25 February 2019, between 10-17h, at Vila Flor Cultural Centre, in Guimarães.

This event, which will be attended by international organizations such as the UN, OECD and CETIC.br/NIC.br, will address the international progress in the development of e-Government and the official launching of the Portuguese version of the 2018 UN e-Government Survey, conducted by the United Nations and which places Portugal in the group of countries with very high EGOV development.

Agenda

10:00 | Reception and Coffee

10:30 | Opening Session

• Delfina Soares | Head, UNU-EGOV
• Pedro Viana | Director of Digital Transformation, Administrative Modernization Agency
• Domingos Bragança | Mayor, Municipality of Guimarães

11:00 | Cooperation Agreements

1. Signature of the Memorandum of Understanding between Cetic.br/NIC.br and UNU-EGOV;
2. Announcement of the exchange of letters between UNDESA and UNU-EGOV.

11:30 | KEYNOTE: The 2018 UN e-Government Survey: Facts, Trends and Challenges

• Speaker: Vincenzo Aquaro | Chief of Digital Government at UNDESA-DPIDG
• Moderator: Soumaya Ben Dhaou | Research Coordinator, UNU-EGOV

12:00 | Launching of the Portuguese Edition of the United Nations E-Government Survey 2018

12:15 | KEYNOTE: Unveil the Challenges and Strategies to Achieve a Sustainable EGOV Development: The Portuguese Case

• Speaker: Pedro Viana | Director of Digital Transformation, Administrative Modernization Agency
• Moderator: João Álvaro Carvalho | Full Professor, University of Minho and Adjunct Professor, UNU-EGOV

12:45 | LUNCH

14:30 | KEYNOTE: EGOV Evolution – What Does a Longitudinal Analysis of Ten UN e‑Government Surveys Have to Say?

• Speaker: Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen | EGOV Expert, UNU-EGOV
• Speaker: João Martins | Academic Fellow, UNU-EGOV
• Moderator: Mariana Lameiras | Senior Academic Fellow, UNU-EGOV

15:30 | PANEL: The impact of indexes and measurements on EGOV development – answering the 5WH questions of EGOV assessment and monitoring

• Panellist: Alexandre Barbosa | Head, Cetic.br/NIC.br
• Panellist: Carlos Santiso | Director of Governance Practice, Digital Innovation in Government, CAF Development Bank of Latin America
• Panellist: Delfina Soares | Head, UNU-EGOV
• Panellist: João Vasconcelos | Policy Analyst for Digital Government and Open Data, OECD
• Panellist: Cláudia Gonçalves Barroso | Head of International Relations, Administrative Modernization Agency
• Panellist: Carlos Santos | Executive Manager, Núcleo Operacional da Sociedade de Informação of Cabo Verde
• Moderator: Luís Soares Barbosa | Associate Professor, University of Minho and Deputy Head, UNU-EGOV

16:45 | Closing Session

• Luís Soares Barbosa | Associate Professor, University of Minho and Deputy Head, UNU-EGOV
• Ricardo Costa | City Councillor, Municipality of Guimarães

17:00 | Coffee