25-26 November 2015
Vilnius, Lithuania

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Updated: 2015-08-18 15:26:56

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Day 1: 25 November 2015

09:00
09:00
Opening Plenary 1a: Opening Plenary - Horizon 2020
Chair: Paul Cunningham, IIMC Limited, Ireland
ICT Priorities in H2020 2016-17 Work Programme
Morten Moller, DG CONNECT, European Commission, Belgium

Lithuanian Participation in FP7 and H2020
Anzelma Ūselienė, MITA, Lithuania

10:30
Coffee Break : Coffee break: Networking
11:00
11:00
Session 2a: eGovernment
Chair: Njei Check, National Agency for Information and Communication Technologies , Cameroon
Issues Arising from the Specification of an Information Acquisition and Analysis Toolkit for Policy Makers in Governmental and Legislative Institutions
Steve Taylor, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

e-CODEX: A Few Cases in Shaping the European Payment Order Procedures across Member States
Natalie Nickel, Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Wesphalia, Germany

Fostering transparency and participation in the data-based society: a Sustainable Architecture for a Social Platform for Open Data
Vittorio Scarano, Università di Salerno, Italy

11:00
Session 2b: Digital Libraries and Intelligent Content
Chair: Ken McHugh, Tigerspike, Singapore
Current lack of interoperability among submission information packages and the bright future
Tarvo Kärberg, National Archives of Estonia, Estonia

An Open Source Implementation of Business Intelligence Systems: A Case of the Technical University of Kenya
Ishmael Obonyo, University of Nairobi, Kenya

An Upper Abstraction Layer for ‘Reasoning’ on CAAD Tools - Two interfaces
Antonio Fioravanti, Sapienza - University of Rome, Italy

11:00
Workshop 2c: IST-Africa - Showcasing African Research Capacity
Chair: Paul Cunningham, IIMC Limited, Ireland
ICT39 - Cooperation with Africa
Morten Moller, DG CONNECT, European Commission, Belgium

ICT Research Capacity in Kenya
Jacob Njagih, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Kenya

ICT Research Capacity in Ethiopia
Leulseged Alemie, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Ethiopia

ICT Research Capacity in Uganda
Maxwell Otim, Uganda National Council for Science and Technology , Uganda

ICT Research Capacity in Burundi
Augustin Nsabiyumva, Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Burundi

ICT Research Capacity in Tanzania
Mauridi Abubakari, COSTECH, Tanzania, United Republic Of

12:30
Lunch : Lunch & Networking
14:00
14:00
Session 3a: eGovernment
Chair: Leulseged Alemie, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Ethiopia
A Novel Framework of an Expert System by integrating Capability Approach and BRB to Evaluate E-Government Services
Karl Andersson, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden

Lessons Learnt from the Use of Prosperity Indicators in Policy Making: Towards Community-Generated Indicators
Ourania Markaki, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Lithuanian National Platform of Electronic Documents: Towards Cross-Border Interoperability
Antanas Mitasiunas, Mit-SOFT Ltd, Lithuania

14:00
Workshop 3b: Enhancing Content for Enriched User Experience in Media Consumption
Chair: Barry Smith, Bibliographic Data Services, United Kingdom
Entity Linking in Media Content and User Comments: Connecting Data to Wikipedia and other Knowledge Bases
David Tomás, University of Alicante, Spain

Creating Dynamic TV Viewer Communities to Increase User Engagement
Marco Tiemann, University of Reading, United Kingdom

Benefits of Using Ranking Skip-Gram Techniques for Opinion Mining Approaches
Yoan Gutiérrez, University of Alicante, Spain

14:00
Workshop 3c: IST-Africa - Showcasing African Research Capacity
Chair: Paul Cunningham, IIMC Limited, Ireland
ICT Research Capacity in Egypt
Haitham Hamza, Software Engineering Competence Centre, Egypt

ICT Research Capacity in Tunisia
Noureddine Hamdi, Ministere de l'Enseignement Superieur et de la Recherche Scientifique, Tunisia

ICT Research Capacity in Senegal
Toumane Doumbouya, Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche , Senegal

ICT Research Capacity in Cameroon
Njei Check, National Agency for Information and Communication Technologies , Cameroon

ICT Research Capacity in Malawi
Gift Kadzamira, National Commission for Science & Technology, Malawi

15:30
Coffee Break : Coffee break: Networking
16:00
16:00
Session 4a: Product Innovation
Chair: Robert Woitsch, BOC Asset Management GmbH, Austria
A Prototype-Based Case Study of Secure Mobile Payments
Till Halbach, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway

c-Space: 3D Visualization and Modelling of Digital Models on Mobile Devices
Davide Lotto, Fondazione Graphitech, Italy

Commercialization of Composite Software Resulting from Collaborative Research
Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva, University St. Gallen, Switzerland

A Comparative Analysis of Online Crowdfunding Platforms in USA, Europe and Asia
Endrit Kromidha, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom

Configurable Software Robots Concept in the IT Industry
Jelena Pujanauskiene, 1ClickFactory, Lithuania

16:00
Workshop 4b: Enhancing Content for Enriched User Experience in Media Consumption
Chair: David Tomás, University of Alicante, Spain
Context Management and Analysis for Social TV Platforms
Christina Santzaridou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Combining Three Thriving Business Areas to enable Monetisation for Content Providers and, Ultimately, Value to the End User
Juan Vicente Vidagany Espert, TIE Kinetix, Netherlands

Media Content Linking, Semantic Annotation and Syndication in Social Enabled, Multiscreen Environments
Alexandros Psychas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Multi-Genre Summarization: Approach, Potentials and Challenges
Isabel Moreno, University of Alicante, Spain

16:00
Workshop 4c: IST-Africa - Showcasing African Research Capacity
Chair: Paul Cunningham, IIMC Limited, Ireland
ICT Research Capacity in Mauritius
Ashwin Seegolam, National Computer Board/ Open University Mauritius, Mauritius

ICT Research Capacity in Lesotho
Lefa Thamae, Ministry of Communications, Science and Technology, Lesotho

ICT Research Capacity in Botswana
Phodiso Potesh Phole, Ministry of Transport and Communications, Botswana

ICT Research Capacity in Namibia
Ebenhezer Kauhonina, National Commission on Research, Science and Technology, Namibia

ICT Research Capacity in South Africa
Peacemaker Dlamini, Department of Science and Technology, South Africa


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