If I was Viviane Reding...reboot11 #wikicrats June2009

david.osimo@gmail.com osimod

egov20.wordpress.com

My bio-tags

• Milan/Brussels 1993-1999: consultant , EU funding , nonprofit sector

• Bologna 2000-2005: regional government, ICT policy , benchmarking

• Sevilla 2005-2008: e-government , research, web2.0, European Commission

• Brussels 2008-present: policy hacker, web2.0 , ICT policy, Tech4i2

Urgent EU stuff

• bring back exciting people into EU projects

• change the funding to eliminate money-grabbers

• crowdsource examination of funding applications

• make EU policies up to wikipedia standards

Urgent EU stuff/2

• choose: focus on excellence and critical mass

• accept failure as necessary part

• expose to positive serendipity: art funding model applied to ICT research?

A plug

• 2009 a key year

• This is our EU e-government policy - let’s make it better

• http://eups20.wordpress.com