The European Leonardo programme, has provided funding for a pilot project on electronic learning material for Civil Servants on E-Government: TRIAS Telematica. This project aims at the development of modular electronic learning material for civil servants, using the expertise of a consortium of leading companies in the field of eGovernment.
The creation of one administrative Europe is realised primarily by the National eGovernment programmes. National, Regional and Urban government agencies struggle with interoperability, standardisation, collaboration, service integration and ICT. Universities have responded to this need by adding law topics to MBA programmes and by teaching additional ICT courses to policy makers. This is not enough to understand the real issues behind international collaboration, enforcement, back office integration, technologies like RDF, XML, OWL and e-service engineering. At the eEurope subgroup meeting of the 25 European leaders of National eGovernment, organised by The Information Society unit on eGovernment and the Dutch Ministry of internal affairs and facilitated by Zenc, it was acknowledge that this is the wrong approach to eGovernment in Europe. The agreements made on new services in the area of Tax interoperability, Spatial planning standards, institutes of foreign affairs and best practices in urban management should lead to new vocational training programmes in eGovernment. eEurope cannot be a digitalized version of the existing local procedures. The traditional Civil Servant has to evolve into the auditor of electronic processes. The Trias Telematica consortium represents a strong mix of academic frontiers, hands on consulting and European regional variety to set the standard for pan european (life long) learning for civil servants. We aim at a test for a full summer course programme in 2007
The project is now half way and it is in the process of creating the Eurpean eGovernment Wiki, The European eGovernment game and a set of domain related modules. information can be obtained from Rob Peters, rpeters@lri.jur.uva.nl or rob@zenc.nl
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The Trias project decided to open up the wiki.triastelematica.org eGovernment elearning Platform for all public as an example of
web 2.0 based teaching and integration of knowledge.
April 8th, 2008
The next TRIAS MasterClass has been planned august 18-22 in Austria and will be hosted by the Danube university Krems and in collaboration with the WEGO project and the Copenhagen business school.
for participation , please contact Peter Parycek
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/universitaet/whois/00570/index.php ; peter.parycek@donau-uni.ac.at
and Helle Zinner Henriksen : hzh.caict@cbs.dk
Many of the TRIAS 2007-teachers will be present to provide further insights in eGovernment training practices and possibilities. We all felt that the First MasterClass was such a success that we asked these institutes to organise the Follow-up in 2008 and 2009.
April 8th, 2008
The TRIAS Telematica project, coordinated by the Leibniz Center for Law, has been selected as one of the five best e-Learning practices in Europe. The methods used to arrive at this conclusion were a combination of desk research, reports and project conclusions deriving from five years, thematic discussions and the validation of conclusions and recommendations in two thematic seminars in Sofia and Copenhagen.
The aims of TRIAS Telematica are to identify the training needs of change agents, process innovators in government agencies who request rethinking of eGovernment services and to create an infrastructure for the exchange of best practices, the exchange of project leaders and students, and the exchange of qualified people among European countries.
For this purpose an e-Learning environment was developed using semantic wiki and various training methods including a simulation game.
A successor project is being planned as well as a second summer course.
February 11th, 2008
First Masterclass on eGov Training Methods & Tools
This year is: July 29th-Aug 3rd 2007
The Hague, Amsterdam NL
30 programme coordinators, professors, tool developers, trainers, consultants, etc. will join together to discuss eGovernment Training Methods and Tools. This will be done while
experiencing teaching methods like wiki based case-analyses, Toic map based navigation, crash visitis to Fire departments, lectures by National eGovernment CIO’s like Haary v Zon and Frank Robben, eGovernment simulation games,ect.
The MasterClass is in The Hague, 50 Km from Amsterdam and 30 Km from Schiphol.
check-in is
We will start with welcome diner Sunday july 29th, 1900 hours
download latest MasterClass programme
download delegate list
Do not hesitate to ask anything you need to know.
Info:
Rob Peters, 31627015002, Rob@zenc.nl
www.triastelematica.org, wiki.triastelematica.org
login: trias/PW: wiki12
May 1st, 2007
The Trias project had a succesfull meeting at Budapest in october 2006.
The Ministry of finance (APEH) was our excellent host and we had fruitfull discussions about real added value for Europe’ s civil servant skills training and knowledge.
The Dutch partner Zenc showed a Role Simulation(Chain City) for training purposes that is very successfull implemented in The Netherlands. Haagse Hoogeschool and UVA showed the eGovernment Wiki which may result in a extremely innovative solution for The training of change agents in eGovernment.
Bologna demonstrated the introduction to eGovernment course which they will make available to Trias.
The project is working towards a summer course in The Netherlands for testing purposes.
dates are july 28th to august 3rd.
If you are part of an administration agency and you would like to act as test person you are welcome to contact us. It would be a great opportunity to meet to teachers and researchers in the field who are working with administrative participants from all over Europe. Rob Peters: rob@zenc.nl .
The cost are limited to low residence costs and you have to cover your own travel.
December 13th, 2006
presentation give at Sofia for “thematic monitoring” meeting about elearning.
Rob Peters gave a presentation about simulation games and the trias Wiki
used for the purpose of training civil servants in Europe.
Role simulation Games and Wiki’s require a non-authoritarian or non-hiarchical teaching and learning approach that is not
always alined with a countrie’s administrative culture.
The discussion about administrations was very much alive, since every person present felt
him or herself a end-user of administrive cultures
download Trias presentation PPT
December 13th, 2006
The consortium met in Budapest to conclude the discussion about the trainingplan and the training modules.
Two innovative approaches were presented by Zenc and The Haagse Hoogeschool:
1) The eGovernment Simulation: a training method to help civil servants to improve horizontal collaboration.
2) The eGovernment Wiki: a way to interconnect the knowledge build in the Trias project in a coherent and usefull way.
The simulation was recieved witha lot of questions given the difference in hiarchy and administrative cultures among governments in Europe. An extremely succesfull approach in The Netherlands that is seen as a major vehicle fr the introduction ofegovenment for hundreds of municipalities may be viewed as too progressive or too bottom-up in other countries.
The eGovernment Wiki was seen as a major break trough, both by the governments involved as well as
the scientists involved.The wiki will be the major platform for Trias.
Bert Mulder (Haagse Hoogeschol) , Rob Peters (UVA & Zenc) , Tom van Engers (UVA) and Arre Zuurmond (Zenc) will continue working on the concepts
while a lot of work is done by the Haagse Hogeschool.
Monica Palminari (Bologna) will try to add a topic map to the wiki.
download WP 3 document
December 13th, 2006
TRIAS going strong!
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