10th International Summer School on Digital Government - opengov2023
The OpenGov Summer School course is equivalent to 3 ECTS credits.
The courses will be offered in various online ways, including lectures, tutorials, collaborative workshops, and discussions. Most importantly, the opengov2023 Summer School will include showcasing and hands-on experience with innovative platforms and services that are under development in a number of collaborative research projects.
Furthermore, the summer school programme follows the Samos 2023 Summit for the first 3 days. The sessions of the Samos Summit have been indicated in the programme below. Additional lectures will be held every day only for the students of the opengov2023 summer school.
The OpenGov2023 Agenda
| CEST | 9.00-10.30 | 11.00-12.30 | 13.30-15.00 |
| EEST | 10.00-11.30 | 12.00-13.30 | 14.30-16.00 |
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Day 1 Monday, June 26 |
Samos Summit Session 1: Introduction to Samos 2023 Summit Chair: Yannis Charalabidis, Professor, University of the Aegean, Greece |
Samos Summit Session 2: Innovative Digital Ecosystems Chair: Enrico Ferro, Links Foundation, Italy |
Samos Summit Session 3: Workshop on Citizen Science Air Quality - the COMPAIR Project Chair: Harris Alexopoulos, Senior Researcher, University of the Aegean, Greece |
| Welcome by the Mayor Dimitris Liberis, Mayor of Western Samos Welcome by the Greek Government Dimosthenis Anagnostopoulos, General Secretary of Information Systems of the Greek Government |
Governments in the era of Metaverse: Opportunities and Challenges Sehl Mellouli, Professor, Laval University, Canada |
Ιntroduction by Lieven Raes, Smart City advisor & consortium coordinator at Information Flanders, Belgium | |
| Introduction to Samos 2023 Summit and OpenGov Summer School and Tour de Table Yannis Charalabidis, Professor, University of the Aegean, Greece |
Innovation Management for Climate Neutrality: The Climaborough Project Enrico Ferro, Links Foundation, Italy |
Hands-on Experience on the CompAir Tools and the Carbon Footprin Simulation Dashboard Christos Karelis, PhD Researcher, University of the Aegean, Greece |
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Keynote Speech 1: Innovative Technologies and Uptake: The digiGOV-innoHUB |
Fostering the Digitisation of the Public sector and Green Transition in Europe through the use of an Innovative European GovTech Platform Francesco Mureddu, Director, Lisbon Council, EU |
Evaluation of the Carbon Footprint Simulation DashboardE Harris Alexopoulos, Senior Researcher, University of the Aegean, Greece |
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| Digital and Resilient: Digital Government and the Other Twin Transition Tomasz Janowski, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland; Guest Professor, Danube University Krems, Austria |
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Day 2 Tuesday, June 27 |
Samos Summit Session 4: Worldwide Initiatives for Digital Transformation and Interoperability Chair: Yannis Charalabidis |
Samos Summit Session 5: AI and NLP Approaches for Governance Chair: Euripides Loukis, Professor, University of the Aegean, Greece |
Keynote Speech 2: Working in Digital Public Sector Organizations Noella Edelmann, Senior Researcher, Danube University Krems, Austria |
| EU Interoperability Academy Andrea Halmos: Deputy Head of Unit & Victoria Kalogirou: Programme Manager/Seconded National Expert/ Project Manager -Interoperability Unit, DG DIGIT, European Commission |
AI Capacity in Public Administrations & Value Creation with AI Colin van Noordt, PhD Researcher, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia |
Samos Summit Session 6: Workshop on Chatbot Technology - The PYTHIA Project |
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| “Interoperability Maturity Tools”: A unified package to measure the interoperability maturity of digital public services” Irene Matzakou, Manager, Deloitte Greece |
Monitoring a National Healthcare Service System: NLP for Policymaking Nina Rizun, Assistant Professor, Gdańsk University of Technology, Fahrenheit Universities, Poland |
The PYTHIA Project Introduction |
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| Experiences from developing a Holistic Framework for Integrated Public Services Noemi Milo, Consultant at Deloitte, Italy |
Chatbots for public services : Possibilities and Challenges |
Hands-on Experience on the PYTHIA Platform |
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| MGOV4EU: Drivers and Barriers for Mobile Government and Cross-border Service Interoperability Thomas Lampoltshammer, Assistant Professor, Deputy Head of the Centre for E-Governance, Danube University Krems, Austria |
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| The Sectoral Impact of Private Messaging in Asia Dionisis Kolokotsas, Director of Public Policy, Asia-Pacific, Whatsapp |
Practical Applications of AI to Enhance Government Operations Linda Bower, Self-employed Independent Consultant, USA |
Evaluation of the Pythia Tools Harris Alexopoulos, Senior Researcher, University of the Aegean, Greece |
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Day 3 Wednesday, June 28 |
Session 7: Workshop on New Research Ideas | Summer School Session | Summer School Session |
| Workshop on Research Project Opportunities (Interactive Session) Harris Alexopoulos, Yannis Charalabidis, University of the Aegean, Greece Mohsan Ali, Maria Ioanna Maratsi, PhD Researchers, University of the Aegean, Greece |
Lecture on Digital Governance - Overview and Future Directions - Artificial Intelligence Euripidis Loukis, Professor, University of the Aegean, Greece |
Lecture on Research Methods in Digital Governance Thomas Lampoltshammer, Assistant Professor, Danube University Krems, Austria |
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Day 4 Thursday, June 29 |
Summer School Session | Summer School Session | Summer School Session |
| Hands-on Workshop on Interoperability Maturity Tools Irene Matzakou, Manager, Deloitte Greece |
Innovation Management in the Public Sector Enrico Ferro, Links Foundation, Italy |
Workshop, Develop and Discuss with students use-case Scenarios for i-Voting Applications within the Higher Educational Institutions (HEI) sector Thomas Lampoltshammer, Assistant Professor, Deputy Head of the Centre for E-Governance, Danube University Krems, Austria |
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Summer School Special Session CEST 15.30 - 17.00 |
Open Data Future Directions Héctor Ochoa Ortiz, PhD Researcher, University of Camerino, Italy Liubov Pilshchikova, PhD Researcher, TUDelft, The Netherlands, Georgios Papageorgiou, PhD Researcher, University of the Aegean & Huffington Post, Greece Umair Ahmed, PhD Researcher, University of Camerino, Italy Mohsan Ali, PhD Researcher, University of the Aegean, Greece Maria Ioanna Maratsi, PhD Researcher, University of the Aegean, Greece |
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Day 5 Friday, June 30 |
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Evaluation Methodologies in Digital Governance |
Interoperability Academy Workshop Workshop Facilitators: Katarina Manojlovic, Chysanthi Christodoulaki, Ludovic Mayot. Trasys International Luxembourg - Interoperable Europe Academy |
Discussion on the New Ways of Working in Digital Public Sector Organizations Noella Edelmann, Senior Researcher, Danube University Krems, Austria |
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Discussion on Research Projects (Assignment: Draft an abstract) - 30 min. |
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