Electronic Government Laboratories(english)

The e-Government Laboratory of the University of Athens (UoA/eGovLab) is a research unit within the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications and a leading academic R&D group for e-government in Greece.

UoA/eGovLab brings together technological skills and know-how from multiple areas of R&D in Information and Communication Technologies (web services and applications, network and security architectures, data and knowledge engineering, software engineering, business process modelling, human-computer interaction) with a focus on deployment and integration of e-Government services. The UoA/eGovLab group, with a current staff of about 10 doctoral and post-doctoral researchers, also provides business planning and operations management know-how for e-Government service schemes, drawing from experience in deployment projects with the Greek public sector.

Recent UoA/eGovLab R&D activities include two IST and a number of national projects:

• SMARTGOV (IST-2001-35399, Feb 2002 - Jan 2004, budget 3.2 mn euro, prime contractor UoA/eGovLab) led to development of a toolset for deploying electronic administrative forms (applications, declarations etc) that incorporate business and operational knowledge of administrative experts.
• CB-BUSINESS (IST-2001-33147, Apr 2002 - May 2004, budget 2.9 mn euro, prime contractor Planet Ernst & Young), has deployed a web-based intermediation architecture for integrated one-stop G2B services from providers in different countries in the context of cross-border business transactions
• PASO (in collaboration with OTE, the Greek Telecommunications Organization, start Jul 2003, budget 1.0 mn euro, prime contractor UoA/eGovLab), is concerned with deployment of PKI service offerings for the consumer and corporate market, as well as for NSPs, ISPs, value-added SPs and the public sector.

UoA/eGovLab has set up and moderates the e-Gov.gr site on e-Government advances and best practices in EU and world-wide. The UoA/eGovLab group has also been involved in the TAXISnet project for web-based services for e-VAT and e-Income Tax forms (eEurope Award for e-Government Best Practice 2001). Past R&D experience of the UoA/eGovLab group includes more than 10 other EU (IST, ESPRIT) and national projects.

Assoc. Prof. Panagiotis J. Georgiadis(Director)

Dr Panagiotis Georgiadis, is Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of Athens, holds a B.Sc. in Physics, an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science. He has been a regular member of the Senate of University of Athens (1992-1994), Director of the Computer Systems & Applications Division of the Department of Informatics (1994-1996) and Secretary General for Information Systems by the Greek Ministry of Finance (20/4/1997 - 16/1/2002). Assoc. Prof. P. Georgiadis lectures on Operating Systems, Information Systems Analysis, Software Engineering, Simulation Systems and Network Performance Evaluation at undergraduate and graduate courses. His research interests include Distributed Systems, Simulation and Management of Information Systems. He has authored more than 50 scientific articles in international journals and conferences, and contributed in national and European research projects.

http://www.e-gov.gr/uoalab/what.php