TELECITIES European Association of Digital Cities
Telecities
was born in 1993 as member of Eurocities and consists in an open
network in the city for the cooperation and the development of common
policies and projects in the field of new information technologies.
Since
1993 Telecities has connected cities already using new information
technologies to support the local development. Today 99 out of 120
cities belong to 14 EU Member States. In this way Telecities offers a
wide skill and experience able to meet the European demand on the use
of technologies and to be spread it among the European Institutions.
Telecities is the widest European city network collaborating on the
identification and definition of technological services, applications
and facilities to support economic and social development in the
cities. The main aim is to exchange experiences and work on common
projects to invent applications and innovative services to meet
users’ needs and be interconnected, standardised and usable as
much as possible. The Telecities members are both big and
middle-small cities; both areas with an increasing demand and supply
of technological services, and underdeveloped areas. This is the
reason why among the activities of the association there is the
individuation of priorities and actions at the EU level in the field
of the Information Society, aimed at maximising the benefits from the
development of the new technologies in different city contests. To
this end Telecities promotes the exchange and the transfer of
successful experiences among the associated cities and stimulates the
creation of public-private partnership to build facilities and
innovative services aimed at:
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Local
and economic development, most of all of SME services;
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The
promotion of the new technologies among the new generations, also
through pilot projects with the schools;
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The
development of employment, also through the on line job;
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The
development of democracy and promotion of projects on democracy in
the net;
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The
improvement of the means of transport also developing electronic
commerce;
Telecities’
activities
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The
elaboration of European policies and priorities of action for the
cities in the field of Information Technologies;
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The
building of a n active dialogue between the cities and the European
Institutions operating in the field of Information Technology;
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The
participation in the building of the European Information Society
through actions promoted by the cities (e.g. Global Cities
Dialogue);
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The
organisation of work groups and pilot projects among the cities
concerning metropolitan topics and co-funded by the European
Commission;
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The
support to local Institutions to define promoting strategies and use
the new technologies, to transfer technologies and exploit the
results of the researching programmes of the European Commission.
Mariella
GRAMAGLIA, President
Deputy
Managing Director, Municipality of Rome
Lungotevere
dei Pierleoni, 1
00186
Roma
Tel.
+39-06-67102077
Fax +39-06-69923160
michilli@comune.roma.it
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