www.i-coin.net - i-COIN, a project where the citizen gets the opportunity to influence the new e-government/e-services solutions. Part financed by EU (European Union) and BSR (Baltic Sea Region INTERREG III B).
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The user panel groups
The groups were identified after bilateral discussions with political stakeholders and local actors in the field of government or technology. Especially the identification of multiplicators or already existing workgroup was important to concentrate on a broad background of the doing.
 
Phase 1  
We worked together with the following groups during the whole project lifetime:
 
1 - IT-Administrators
There was an already existing a workgroup of the IT Administrators of the whole county which means 7 communities and the county administration. This workgroup evaluated the technical quality of the platform and the possibilities for the implementation for the use in German governmental organization. For the preparation of the development of the new portal, special taskforce as output of this workgroup was created.
 
2 - The political decision makers group
The mayors and the county governor have a 4 weekly closed meeting. This meeting was often used for the work on the regional portal and the identification of a strategy for the county of Osterholz focusing on e-government
 
3 - Broadband — Executive committee
The broadband executive committee is a workgroup of different decision makers of the administration. They are working in different fields of the public administration and should therefore coordinate the impacts of interdisciplinary e-services. This workgroup should focus on the internal implementation on process not a technical level.
 
4 - Citizens
With bilateral discussions with multiplicators and in the workshops of the broadband days 2006 and the T-City process the possibility was used to get citizens directly involved. This was important to get faced with these issues without stereotypes.     
 
Phase 2  
We have different kinds of feedbacks. Emotional, technical and practical feedbacks were given. The main points are:  
  1. A good idea, but a too complex system for the integration in a small county
  2. A lot of possibilities without any use, but interesting for people with open source knowledge.
  3. The difference between the developer´s countries and Germany is to big especially in legal issues, we don´t know if we´re allowed to use it.
  4. The effect of the platform is great — it makes all this login processes easy (because nobody can remember so much passwords and it is a bridge concerning this personal ID thing)
  5. Interesting that so many countries have the same problems
Updated: 2008-04-10