PICTURE

An Instrument to Provide ICT Investment Strategies for European Public Administrations

Attended Conferences

• 7th International EGOV Conference - Turin (Italy) August 31 – September 5, 2008
  The international EGOV Conference series gives annual state of the art overviews in eGovernment and eGovernance research, implementation and application. Thereby, the conference provides important guidance for research and development in this fast-moving domain of study. As part of the DEXA conference cluster, the annual EGOV conferences bring together leading researchers and professionals from all over the globe and from many disciplines. The 7th EGOV conference addressed various research topics in eGovernment, eGovernance, eParticipation and other fields of application in the public sector.
  The University of St. Gallen and SAP contributed a PICTURE paper named “A Methodology for ICT Impact Analysis Based on Semantic Process Models. Presenting the general PICTURE methodology, this paper focused on the potentials of semantic process modelling to create formalised process knowledge that enables identification of organisational deficiencies and appropriate support of ICT. The paper described the two core phases: semantic modelling of administrational processes (phase 1) and computer-assisted analysis of ICT impact (phase 2) based on a real-world example from the PICTURE project.
  
  
• Paper contribution and presentation at the European Conference on Electronic Government 2008 - Lausanne (Switzerland), July 10, 2008
  As governments seek to remodel and restyle their services, eGovernment continues to arouse interest and attention. New dynamic issues such as eDemocracy, eCitizenship, eIdentity and eVoting have become core elements in the development of public sector delivery. Vital questions have been posed which link technological development and a streamlining of government services to more social based values of inclusion, accessibility and power relationship ratios.
  WI-HSG contributed a paper about the transformation of public administrations. Foundation is a conceptual model describing characteristic elements of public administrations (such as organisational and procedural structures as well as supporting ICT addressed in PICTURE) and the specific interrelations between those elements. On the one hand, this conceptual model enables identification of relevant factors influencing transformation projects, and on the other hand it provides the basis for structuring the transformation process.
  
  
• 16th Polish EDI&Ecommerce conference - Rochna (Poland) June 10, 2008
  On the first day of the 16th Polish EDI&Ecommerce conference there was a session devoted to “Selected problems of administrative applications“. During this session the presentation of Jörg Becker, Philipp Bergener, Łukasz Lis, Daniel Pfeiffer and Michael Räckers “Migrating process models between PICTURE and BPMN/EPC” was presented and discussed. The presenter - Łukasz Lis has stressed in his speech how much important is the possibility of such a migration and how numerous problems are connected with it. The presentation was followed be lively discussion.
  
  
• 16th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) - Galway (Ireland) June 9 - 11, 2008
  The European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) is the largest and most prestigious Information Systems (IS) conference in Europe. The 16th ECIS was hosted by the Business Information Systems Group, Cairnes Graduate School of Business & Public Policy at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Out of 566 submissions 213 papers were accepted to be presented in the 16 dedicated track themes.
  SAP and University of St. Gallen contributed a PICTURE paper named “Towards Facilitated Reuse of Ontology Results from European Research Projects: A case study”. The paper was presented as part of the track “Semantic Web and Information Systems”. It addressed the challenge that a significant amount of results have been produced recently in the area of ontology research but such research results is hindered by different underlying meta-models, incompatible formalization and the limited availability of content. A framework that defines required information to enable accurate characterisations of ontology research results in an ontology library system is presented as an approach to address this issue.
  
  
• AK Digitales Rathaus (Digital Town-Hall) - Halle (Germany) April 24-/25, 2008
  PICTURE project and the PICTURE idea were presented to members of the Workgroup
  Digital Town-Hall (workgroup of Deutscher Städtetag, www.staedtetag.de), who are nationwide involved in process modeling. Attendants of this board realized the capability of the method and the idea for process modeling and process landscaping as basics for digital processes.
  
  
• Presentation and booth about the PICTURE project at the Forum Verwaltung within the Telematiktage Conference - Bern (Switzerland) March 4, 2008
  Since 11 years, Telematiktage are a well-known platform for industry-oriented ICT applications focusing on education, healthcare and public sector. The Forum Verwaltung addressed decision makers from local and federal governments in Switzerland. Main topic was the transformation from ICT projects towards public administration’s reform and the contribution of new ICTs to quality and efficiency of service processes.
  WI-HSG and the City of Winterthur presented the PICTURE methodology as well as the tool to the audience (Powerpoint slides and prototype demonstration). Further details have been discussed with interested participants at the PICTURE booth.
  
  
• Vitako TaskForce EGovernment - Münster (Germany) February 27, 2008
  Presentation, reporting and discussion about PICTURE with members of the VITAKO
  (www.vitako.de), which are involved in process modeling and process optimization. Vitako is the nationwide community of municipal IT-Service Providers in Germany. At the moment 46 IT service provider of 13 provinces of Germany belong to this network. Within the federaI community they exchange experiences, competences and strategies. Vitakobundles most of the Know-how of the municipal IT-service provider.
  
  
• Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposium 2008 (IRIS2008) - Salzburg (Austria) February 21, 2008
  The International Legal Informatics Symposium (IRIS) took place at the Law Faculty of the University of Salzburg from 21-23 February 2008. Already being in its 11th year, IRIS has been established as the largest and most important academic conference on computers and law in Austria and Central Europe.
  
  
• eChallenges 2007 - The Hague (The Netherlands) October 24-26, 2007
  The eChallenges 2007 conference was the seventeenth in a series of annual technology research conferences supported by the European Commission, which regularly attracts over 600 delegates from leading commercial, government and research organisations around the world to share knowledge and experience, lessons learnt and good practice in areas of applied Information Communication Technologies (ICT).
  AP and IBM presented the PICTURE project at a demo booth in the exhibition area. Visitors could get information about the project consortium and the PICTURE methodology comprising a public administration specific process modelling methodology as well as a semi-automatic measurement of impact of cross-functional ICT. They also had the chance to get a first glimpse on the PICTURE prototype.
  
  
• KOMCOM NRW 2007 - Essen (Germany) September 18-19, 2007
  Also in 2007 citeq took part in some exhibits especially to perform the PICTURE method. New contacts were made with key-users of North Rhine-Westphalia, who were informed about PICTURE for the first time. The fare (www.komcom.de) was particularly used for appointments with representatives of municipalities discussing the results of the PICTURE project and the possibilities of joining the PICTURE evaluation. The process of advertisingand informing will be continued.
  
  
• 15th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) - St. Gallen (Switzerland) June 6 – 9, 2007
  The European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2007 was held in St. Gallen, Switzerland. The 15th ECIS was organized by the Institute of Information
  Management of the University of St. Gallen. Its theme was "Relevant rigour - rigorous relevance". The ECIS conference has started in the UK in 1993. It attracts IS researchers and programmes in between computer science and business / economics. Information systems, the core theme of ECIS, are now acknowledged as important innovation drivers and sources of growth for companies, government and society.
  The conference was visited by 460 participants from 32 countries, the majority coming from European states. It offered 197 presentations in 66 sessions and seven panels during three days.
  The PICTURE panel was held on June 8, 2007, 08:45 – 10:15. It attracted 15 attendants besides the moderator and the panellists. This number is considered quite satisfying given the fact that the panel was held in parallel to ten other sessions.
  The goal of this panel was to discuss research and state-of-the-art in the field of business process redesign, to critically evaluate the PICTURE approach against accepted methodologies. Among these are reference process modelling and best practice adoption as well as alternative approaches for assessing and advancing process maturity.
  
  
• Workgroup Digital Town- Hall (Digitales Rathaus) - Hannover (Germany) April 23-24, 2007
  Within a conference of the board "Digitales Rathaus“ (www.staedtetag.de) the opportunity was used to spread the project to win a big circle of interested people especially for the PICTURE idea and the PICTURE method. The feedback was definitely positive. Interested attendants intended to follow the further project progress and activities.
  
  
• KOMCOM NORD 2007 - Hannover (Germany) February 27-28, 2007
  In 2007 citeq took part in this fare especially to present the PICTURE method. New promising contacts were made with nationwide key-users, who were informed about PICTURE for the first time. The fare (www.komcom.de) was particularly used for appointments with representatives of municipalities discussing the results of the PICTURE project and the possibilities of joining the PICTURE evaluation. The process of advertisingand informing will be continued.
  
  
• KOMCOM NORD 2006 - Hannover (Germany) February 21-23, 2006
  Citeq participated at the public sector (KOMCOM, www.komcom.de) fare in Hannover with an own fare booth. At the fare the citeq booth staff promoted the PICTURE Idea and the PICTURE Project. There was a lively discussion and information exchange with interested faregoers. New contacts were made and kept in touch in the further project progressiondue to a potentially common PICTURE evaluation.

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