|
Home » News and Events
» News
WISeKey organizes a high level meeting in Geneva between Government and Business
Leaders
A high level official delegation from the Biscayan Government, comprising the
Honourable Mr. Iñaki Hidalgo, Minister of Economy and Public Affairs (Regional Government
of Biscay), members of its cabinet and a group of Bizcayan business leaders visited
Mr. Pierre-Francois Unger Minister of Economy and Health of the State Council of
the Republic and Canton of Geneva as well as business counterparts.
.jpg)
Geneva, February 8th, 2007. The visit was aimed at studying the Geneva experience
in electronic government, e-voting and the Geneva Security Forum (GSF) as well as
exchanging opinions, experiences and best practices learned from the deployment
of eGovernment services on their respective regions.
The delegation also learnt about the advantages of WISeKey technologies and how
to apply them in further advancing Bizcayan’s eGovernment systems using cutting
edge technologies and methodologies developed by WISeKey and Microsoft for a new
paradigm in citizen-centric e-government services.
The visit began with a meeting with Minister Unger, who gave a comprehensive review
on how the Geneva Government was processing eGovernment projects and cyber administration,
including its main components, the process of deploying the system to citizens and
obstacles encountered by the deployment process. He also placed great emphasis on
involving the health sectors and other stakeholders from the out set of the eGovernment
process.
The discussions will continue in Bilbao this year, as per the extended invitation
to the Geneva authorities made by Mr. Hidalgo.
The delegation also held a meeting with a representative of the Geneva State Chancellery,
in charge of the eVoting project which was developed by the State’s Centre
of information technologies (CTI) with two companies operating in Geneva, Hewlett-Packard
and WiseKey. The delegation ended its visit with extended meetings with Mr. Roger
Tondeur, CEO MCI Events on possible cooperation with the Bilbao Exhibition Center,
and Mr. Philippe Doubre, Secretary General World Trade Center to discuss the possible
implementation of a World Trade Center in Bilbao.
At the end of the visit, after visiting the United Nations headquarters in Geneva
and CERN, the Biscayan delegation praised the Geneva eGovernment experience and
expressed thanks and gratitude for the support that WISeKey is providing to both
cities in developing the required infrastructures and technologies to compete on
international markets in the area of security and egovernment.
Please contact Daniel Ybarra, VP Corporate Communications, for more
informations
Back to News | Top of page
|