Budapest: questions from the audience

Presenters at many sessions took questions. Here’s a random sampling of photos of audience members who spoke up. (Click photos to enlarge.)

Day 2 Audio: Engaging Young People

Thursday’s Day 2 session titled “Engaging Young People” included these panelists (click photos to enlarge):

Darryl Sheppard, International Officer, Kate Parish, Founder, UK Youth Parliament


17 minutes, 10 seconds

Shane McCracken, Gallomanor, and I’m a Councillor get me out of here!


18 minutes, 3 seconds

Laura McVeigh, Senior Fellow, Young UK and Ireland Programme


9 minutes, 31 seconds

Tom Gaskin, Youth Worker for Norfolk Blurb Website Project


7 minutes, 31 seconds

Day 2 audio: Social Inclusion in the 21st Century

Panelists for the Day 2 session, Social Inclusion in the 21st Century, included (click photos to enlarge):

Cllr Mary Reid, Mayor of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames
Empowering Young People


16 minutes, 36 seconds

Stephen Dodson, Innovation & Challenge Programme Director, DCLG, UK Digital Challenge: Connecting Communities


10 minutes, 4 seconds

Csaba Madarasz, eGovernment Advisor, Hungary


8 minutes, 17 seconds

Catherine Howe, Operations Director, Public-i


12 minutes, 27 seconds

Day 3 Panel: From e-Voting to e-Participation: Connecting Governments, Parliaments and Civil Society in Europe

Friday’s Day 3 panel at 10 am titled: “From e-Voting to e-Participation: Connecting Governments, Parliaments and Civil Society in Europe” featured (click photos to enlarge):

Christoforos Korakas, Access2Democracy, Greece

Margaret Moran MP, Member of UK Parliament

Matthias Trenel, Zebralog.org, City of Berlin and Senate of Berlin eParticipation project, Germany

Richard Kerby, UNDESA, Senior Inter-Regional Advisor on e-Government

Mayor Tapani Hellsten, Hämeenlinna City, Finland (not my photo):

Eric Legale, Managing Director of Issy-Media and Coordinator of the Global Cities Dialogue, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France


Dr. Irina Zalisova, DEMONET, European Commission IST-FP6 Network of Excellence, Czech Republic

Finn Stubtoft, Secretary General, Danish Social Democratic Party, Denmark

Hugo Kerschot, K-U Leuven – INDIGOV, Belgium

Witold Sartorius, Head of the Polish Competence Centre for e-Government and e-Education (PCC), Poland (not my photo)

Day 3 Panel: Policing the Net: Authentication

Friday’s panel on Policing the Net: Authentication featured (L to R, click to enlarge):

Dr Philip Seltsikas, Director Information Society Technologies Group, University of Surrey Global Initiatives in Identity Management

Brian Woodford, Director Public Sector UK and Ireland, Tata Consultancy

Julia Glidden, Managing Director, 21c Consultancy Ltd

Ravi Singh, CEO of ElectionMall Technologies, USA The Seal of Authenticity for Official Government Websites

Stephen Chandler, Vice President, EDS

Sylvia Archmann, Seconded National Expert, European Institute of Public Administration, Austria

Day 3 Panel: eGovernment Connections and Challenges

Friday’s 10 am panel featured these presenters:

Dr Peter Blair, Local e-Government Adviser and Head of Take Up Campaign, UK

Gary Heane, Project Manager, Sheffield City Council, UK
EU Projects: Regional, National and International Cooperation

Jože Gričar, Professor & Director, Department of Informatics, University
of Maribor, Slovenia

Cllr. Chris Newby, Chair of EUROCITIES Knowledge Society Forum (not my photo)

Plenary Session Day 3 audio: Looking to the Future

Friday’s Day 3 Plenary session featured these presenters:

Herman Waumans, Oracle Director of Public Sector Europe and Africa


17 minutes, 38 seconds

Sir Bob Kerslake, Chief Executive of Sheffield City Council


11 minutes, 41 seconds

Cllr. Paul Bettison, Leader of Bracknell Forest Council and UK Local Government Association lead on e-Government


14 minutes, 13 seconds

Tom Steinberg, My Society


7 minutes, 38 seconds