DALI: Delivery and Access to Local Information and Services (business organisations; social integration) The aim of DALI is to add value to city solutions for citizens' needs through multimedia telematic products and services. Goals include improving the quality of life of citizens, developing the information environment of SMEs and increasing the productivity of the city administration. Nine cities participate in DALI: Barcelona, Bologna, Cologne, Gothenburg, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Leipzig, London-Lewisham, Torino and Toulouse. EDC: European Digital Cities The EDC project is a support action under the Telematics Applications Programme focused upon telematics applications and services for urban areas. It provides an open forum for exchange of information and expertise between more than 120 cities, towns and regions and all the relevant players in Europe. A quarterly newsletter is published. EDC encompasses four networks: Telecities (focusing on the socio-economic perspective), POLIS, Car Free Cities, and the Eurocities Transport Committee (focusing on the fields of transport and the environment). EQUALITY: Extended Quality Urban Service for Added-Value Living Using Interactive Telematic Systems (social integration) EQUALITY aims to demonstrate how the quality of life of less favoured European urban citizens can be improved by providing integrated social, health and local civic teleservices using generic multi-media telematics value-added delivery systems. Cities participating are Den Haag, Helsinki, Leeds, Livorno, Newcastle upon Tyne and Rome. INFOSOND: Information and Services On Demand INFOSOND aims to fulfil the user needs of citizens in cities with regard to electronic delivery of information and services. The project offers a wide range of opportunities from easy access to public, professional, economic, educational, scientific and leisure information and services, to voice, mail and video between citizens, local government and enterprises. The cities of Amaroussion, Antwerp, Joensuu, Nice, Nuremberg, Rotterdam, Stockholm, Strasbourg and Vienna are participating. MUNICIPIA: Multilingual Urban Network for the Integration of City Planners and Involved Local Actors (regional) MUNICIPIA has created an interactive telematic value-added network to foster improved dialogue and experience exchange between European, national and local authorities, as well as other key local actors. Between 5-10 cities and regions are involved in each of the three countries of Italy, Spain and Austria. OSA-TESMA: Open System Architecture for Telematics Services in Municipal Applications This project is demonstrating the usefulness of high-speed access to multimedia data for administration and planning in European cities. Quality telematics are invariably critical to the delivery of better, more cost-effective public services by local authorities. Participating cities are Karlsruhe, Luleà, Marousi and Nancy. |
