March 2008:
ELOST project will terminate at the end of March 2008. The
final ELOST workshop will take place in Brussels on March 11, 2008. The
workshop will be titled 'E-Government and Social Inclusion: Barriers,
Opportunities and Future Directions'. It aims to bring together scholars
working in the area of e-Government and e-inclusion to discuss research
findings and policy recommendations among themselves and with
policy-makers and technology providers. (See the agenda).
Updated information on ELOST findings may be found in the second
newsletter issued in October 2007 (download).
May 2007:
The ELOST foresight study has been completed in May 2007.
The study included a worldwide expert survey on emerging technologies and their potential
impact on the future use of e-Gov services by persons from low socio-economic groups (LSGs).
The survey results will be presented at the "Smart Event", France, 17-21 September 2007:
http://www.strategiestm.com/conferences/smartuniv/07/programme_identity-management-e-services.htm.
November 2006: The ELOST newsletter was published including several topics, such as Patterns of ICT Use and
E-Government – What we Already Know, The Future of E-Government: Technological Capabilities and Societal
Challenges, and short description of E-Government country profiles for Austria, Finland, Germany, France, Israel,
and Bulgaria (download).
August 2006: The ELOST Delphi survey pilot was completed during August 2006. In the online Delphi survey we are using the Calibrum hosting services. The main survey, including 2 rounds, will be carried out during September through November 2006. At present, the survey is confined to a selected list of experts and is not open to the public.
July 2006: The second meeting of the ELOST project meeting was held in Paris on 3-5/7/06. During this meeting project’s partners participated in a brainstorming session with e-Government experts and visited several IT centres in the city of Paris. The project’s work plan was thoroughly discussed in the Paris offices of CIR.
June 2006: The ELOST project is considered for presentation at the IST 2006 conference in Helsinki due on 20-23.11.06.
February 2006: ELOST’s Kick off meeting was held at Tel Aviv University Israel on 6-7 February 2006.
First press release was issued (download).