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KICK-OFF MEETING
Florence Dec. 15th 2008

Profile of partner “PRATO”

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Main contacts for PRATO

Paolo Boscolo
ICT department

Valentina Sardi
Immigration and Citizenship office
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Short profile

• 180.000 inhabitants city area

• 230.000 inhabitants Province area
• Decline of textile Industry
• EU Best Practice Award winners on 2001
• Partner in other EU Projects including.........
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Projects
•SPES and W-SPES (digital signature and PKI)
•CARMEN (CRM in Public Administration)
•EU-Pay (ePayments to Public Authorities)
•FAST
•Other IT eGov initiatives
•Other Tuscany Region eGov initiatives
•….. Others
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• IT infrastructure:
• 1.200 workplaces
• 25 site spread in the city area
• Proprietary fiber optic cables
• In-house IT management
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eGovernment Private Entities:

Civic Network since ‘95

All the economical associations
40 Public subjects
are present on the web
100 Associations on the web
50 Schools
60% of enterprises are on-line
190 Editorial staffs
40.000 Web pages
3rd position at Italian level for
30 Data Banks on-line telematic services
2.500.000 Accesses per month
Advanced IT infrastructure
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Available Technologies
• HTML pages
• CMS (commercial & Open Source)
• eLearning platform
• SMS engine for newsletter & CRM
• e-Mail engine for newsletter & CRM
• T-comunico system (TV screens)
• video server
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31/12/2005
Age Male Female Total
V.A. V.% V.A. V.% V.A. V.%
<18 2.573 24,16 2.397 26,23 4.970 25,12
18-30 3.175 29,81 2.607 28,53 5.782 29,22
31-40 2.837 26,64 2.278 24,93 5.115 25,85
41-50 1.521 14,28 1.221 13,36 2.742 13,86
51-65 436 4,09 508 5,56 944 4,77
>65 108 1,01 127 1,39 235 1,19
Total 10.650 100,00 9.138 100,00 19.788 100,00

Source: Population registry

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Expectations
• To experiment the new applications for already
installed technological platforms.
• To test the re-usability of French partner’s
experience
• To offer its experience to French partner
• To help Municipality to solve social integration
problems
• To contribute to the validation of the proposed
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• To analyse replicability of experiences in this field
across Europe
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Role in the project

WP1: Management
To cooperate to the project management
To produce the planned reports
WP 2: Quality Plan
To cooperate to the definition of QP
To implement the QP
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Role in the project

WP3: Development (Italy)
To adapt the technical platform
WP 4: Development (France)
To cooperate to French tech. platform
WP5: Content
To define the necessary contents
To provide rough material for content production
To evaluate produced contents
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Role in the project

WP6: Deployment
To select user sample
To deliver produced material using Prato
platform
To replicate French platform
To deliver produced material using French
platform
To evaluate the results of piloting
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Role in the project

WP7-8: Exploitation & Dissemination
To contribute to the WPs activities
To create/maintain project web site
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Next important step

Technical:
Define the needs for the technical platform
•this is a preliminary task to start platform
improvement work and to define commercial
telecom service to be subscribed
•in the tomorrow the existing platform in Prato
will be described
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Next important step

Contents:
Define the topics to be covered
•this is a preliminary task to start collection of
specific rough material for train ing
campaigns, samples and specific experts in
the Prato Municipality (and other Authorities if
needed)
•in the today WG the issue will be tackled