David Broster
Position: Head of Information Society Unit
Organization: Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) - Joint Research Centre. European Commission.
David spent 15 years as a designer, developer and researcher in the semiconductor industry before joining the European Commission's ESPRIT Microelectronics in 1989 where he had responsibility for the EU contribution to the JESSI Programme (1990-1996). From 1999 to 2002 he worked in DG Information Society's Strategy Unit with responsibility for setting up the IST Advisory group ISTAG and the development of the notion of Ambient Intelligence and a budget of 400M€ dedicated to cross-IST-Programme research activities. In 2003 he was appointed Head of Unit for the eTEN Programme and an annual budget of 45M€ supporting the validation and deployment of electronics services in the public interest, including eGovernment, eHealth, eInclusion, eLearning, Trust & Security, and services for small and medium enterprises. In 2007 David formed the unit "eGovernment and CIP Operations" and was responsible for Europe's eGovernment Action Plan and the operational preparations for launching the "ICT Policy Support Program" (ICTPSP) - a key pillar of the Commission's new Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP). Since summer 2008 David has worked at the Commission's Joint Research Centre, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Seville, where he is currently leading the Information Society Policy Research Unit which undertakes Techno-Economic and Socio-Economic research responding to challenges and supporting key Information Society policies. The scope of the research ranges from ICT industry research intensity, digital economy through to electronic identity, search, personal health systems, social computing, inclusion and the use of IT for enhancing learning and skill development.
Title of the presentation: Digital Governance Tomorrow: Extrapolation or Discontinuity? Establishing a Dialogue on Identity and Behaviours in a Digital Society
Abstract: The presentation will first outline the scenarios on ICT for future governance and policy modelling for Europe at the horizon 2030 designed by the JRC-IPTS as part of the FP7 Support Action CROSSROAD - A participative roadmap on Electronic Governance and Policy Modelling. This will be complemented by presenting key results of the pan-European survey on Digital Identity recently conducted by the European Commission, and on which the JRC-IPTS played a crucial role. The findings of the survey on European citizens' perceptions of digital identity in the Information Society of today will be compared with the prospective 'shapes' of Digital Governance tomorrow. Gaps and challenges will be highlighted confronting the current situation characterised - in general terms - by an absence of dialogue among ICT-empowered citizens and governments' officials, that can be witnessed for example in the political turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as in the bottom up protests in many European countries, from the riots in the UK to the indignados in Spain. The presentation will conclude with some thoughts on the potential of social media for governance in relation to citizens' engagement and participation, with a specific focus on the interplay between identity management and possible ICT-enabled behavioural change in the future digital society.
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