Research for Public Sector Innovation and Renewal in Norway

New York, Boston, Albany, Washington DC, 14th – 20th March 2010

Coordinator, Research for Innovation in Government, Trond Knudsentk@rcn.no, www.rcn.no

The Research Council of Norway – a strategic government agency

RCN Main tasks

Advise the government on research policy issues

Finance and stimulate public and private R&D

Create arenas for cooperation and knowledge distribution

The Research Council in Norway,- for all disciplines and segments within the research sector

Advising Government on research policy issues Funding academic and industrial research

Promoting the role of R&D in innovation

Creating arenas for cooperation and knowledge transfer Facilitating internationalisation of Norwegian R&D

The Research Council of Norway

Annual budget: 5,7 bill. NOK = 700 USD

The Council distributes about 30 % of public expenditures on R&D in Norway

Publicshare ofFunding of R&D inNorway:

42%

Industry

Institutes

The University

sector

OtherMinistries

Ministry of Educationand Research

The ResearchCouncil

Thematic priority areas – RCN activitiesWhere is research performed?

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Energy & theenvironment

Oceans Food Health ICT Nano/newmaterials

Biotechno-logy

Welfare

Universities and univ. colleges

Institutes

Trade and industry

Other

Important funding instrument:

Large-scale programmes

VERDIKT Core Competence and Growth in ICT

Strategic, long-term knowledge development to meet national research-policy priorities

Strategic and dynamic arena for communication and cooperation

NORKLIMA Climate Change and

its Impacts in Norway

PETROMAKS Optimal Management

of Petroleum Resources

RENERGI Clean Energy

for the Future

NANOMAT Nanotechnology and New Materials

FUGEFunctional Genomics in Norway

AQUACULTURE An Industry in Growth

VERDIKTCore Competence and Value Creation in ICT

VERDIKT is RCN’s large strategic programme on ICT

The only research programme targeting ICT research

VERDIKT's vision:

Norwegian ICT research will put Norway at the forefront of the development and application of knowledge to enhance interaction, innovation and value creation in the ICT-based network community.

VERDIKT Priority Research focus and topics:

Part of the Programme for

Research, Technological

Development and Demonstration

on "Improving the human research

potential and the socio-economic

knowledge base,1998-2002" under

the EU 5th Framework Programme

www.nifustep.no/publin

Innovation in the Public Sector

Quality and efficiency indicators

R&D research organisation instruments

Structural challenges of interoperability

Stakeholder involvement

Challenges for R&D for eGovernment Innovation

Researcher driven projects

Partnership R&I projects

Company (Supplier) Managed Projects

(Government Managed Projects)

Demoprojects (Høykom, LivingLabs)

Network projects

Main Research Funding Instruments for eGovernment

A Nordic model: eGovernement with a participative approach

Proposal invitations from the Research Council of Norway

Three breakthrough project examples:

eGovMon - eGovernment Monitor (www.egovmon.no)

Semicolon - Semantic and organisational interoperability in communicating and collaborating organisations (www.semicolon.no)

RNeF - The Norwegian Resource Network of eGovernment (www.rnef.no)

eGovMon - eGovernment monitor

Co-funded by RCN for 3.5 years: 20 Pilot Municipalities, Research partners from 5 countries, Includes 3 PhD students.

A methodology and demonstrator tools to evaluate four indicators:

* Accessibility * Transparency * Efficiency * Impact

All project results to be available under Open license.

Funding from VERDIKT: 13,20 mNOK 37.9% International funding: 1,17 mNOK Partners’ contributions: 20,49 mNOK

34,86 mNOK

More than 20 Pilot municipalities:Askøy, Grimstad, Haugesund, Hof, Hole, Holmestrand, Horten, Kongsberg, Larvik, Mandal, Nøtterøy, Rana, Re, Sandefjord, Ski , Stokke, Tjøme, Tønsberg, Trondheim ….

Private and public entitiesTingtun AS (co-ordinator), DIFI, KS, PT, The Delta Centre, Deloitte, FTB.

Academic institutionsCopenhagen Business School, MIP–Politecnico di Milano, Aalborg University, Vestfold University College, University of Agder.

Please try out the accessibility checker demo! : http://accessibility.egovmon.no/

Biggest potential for Change:Nord Trøndelag

Best County:Telemark

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Collaboration between public sector organisations

Collaboration inside public sector organisations

Fragmented public sector: isolated information models

Public sector organisations

SemicolonSemantic and Organisational Interoperability in Communicating and

Collaborating Organisations

Some New Public Sector R(&D) projects

Evidence-based care processes: Integrating knowledge in clinical information systems

Owner: The hospital ”Sykehuset innlandet HF”, PL: Øystein Nytrø, SINTEF

PETweb II - Privacy-respecting Identity Management for e-Norge Owner: Gjøvik Univ. College, PL: Professor Einar Snekkenes

Autonomy and Automation in an Information Society for All Owner: UiO, PL: Professor Tone Bratteteig

Global health e-infrastructures: Integration and use of information

Owner: Univ. of Oslo, PL: Professor Kristin Braa

UNIMOD - Universal Design in Multimodal Interfaces

Owner: ICT Norway, Department Director Riitta Hellman

…. Moving forward

International Cooperation to Support

Government eServices for all

Foreseeing needs through ‘semantic personalization’?

With one-click services in web 2.0 mash-up technology?

Safe and secure, with ample participation possibilities?

Citizens’ eServices across borders

At any geographical spot, in any channel?

With access to any service at any level in any public unit?

Supporting governance and trust in redefined democracies?