“ICT-enabled sustainability in “smart” cities” - MALTA NCP

The Malta CIP NCP is organizing on 3rd March 2010 the international seminar “ICT-enabled sustainability in “smart” cities” .

This information and networking event will be opened by the Honourable Minister Dr. Austin Gatt, Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Communications and addressed by high caliber speakers, including officials from the DG Information Society within the European Commission. The draft programme is attached for your perusal.

Its final version shall be made available in due course on www.cipmalta.com.

Malta, like the entire Europe, is facing today the need to speed-up economic growth through higher productivity, innovativeness and competitiveness, but in a manner that ensures a sustainable and rational use of resources. ICT has now become one of the main infrastructures and an obvious enabler for the achievement of long-term sustainability, within “smarter” societies. Malta’s size and geographical location, its highly developed ICT infrastructure and commitment to sustainable growth, makes it a great “test-bed” for new ICT solutions and infrastructure paradigms, and thus a “catalyst” for their expansion and development into the Euro-Mediterranean region.

In this context, the aim of this event is to provide information on the specific funding opportunities existing under themes 1 and 4 of the 2010 ICTPSP, as well as serve as a meeting place for representatives of public administration, academia, business and civil society from across CIP member countries, giving them the occasion to establish direct communication channels and set the base for joint projects and further collaborations. To this end, the event will be structured so as to allow for two parallel networking sessions, each focused on one of the above mentioned themes. During these sessions, the participants will be able to briefly present:

- their pilot proposal idea for which they seek participants,

- their organisation’s pilot participant competences.

We can offer to interested organizations, unable to be represented in person at the event, to deliver ourselves their partner-search presentations to the event’s audience. Guidelines and requirements for such presentations are included in the attached draft programme.