Jeremy Millard
Jeremy Millard is director of the not-for-profit consultancy Third Millennium Governance, as well as having senior research positions at the Danish Technological Institute in Denmark and Bradford University in the UK. He has over forty years’ global experience on issues ranging from governance, technology, open and social innovation, participation and democracy, sustainable and socio-economic development and tackling poverty and exclusion. He also works on assignments relating to the sharing and circular economies, urbanization and nature-based solutions for growth and urban development. He has taught, presented and published extensively in these and many related fields. His clients include governments, the European Commission, United Nations, OECD and World Bank, as well as many non-profits and companies around the world. He works with partners to develop new business and social innovation models of change at organizational, spatial and societal levels. His aim is to ensure that technology and governance serve both people and planet, and that benefits are widely spread to maximise smart, sustainable and inclusive growth providing prosperity and welfare for all through open governance institutions and processes.
Recent e-government related activities include on-going assignments for both the United Nations, regarding their biennial eGovernment Survey and public service strategies, and for the European Commission in developing social sciences and humanities research and innovation programmes for FP7 and H2020. He was also recently a member of the EC’s Policy Forum on Digital Entrepreneurship, and undertook a study on back-office developments in support of user-centred e-government strategies for the OECD. He continues to work with the UN on social development and technology issues for the 2030 sustainable development agenda, and with ESCWA on open government, e-participation and integrated service delivery across the Arab Region. In addition, he is currently working with the World Bank in India and South Korea on smart green city development, and recently developed open government and e-participation road maps for the Western Balkan countries, advised the Georgian government on their e-Georgia strategy, and co-authored a knowledge societies policy handbook for UNESCO. He works with partners to develop new business and social innovation models of change at organizational, spatial and societal levels. Jeremy also works on many social innovation projects and programmes, including the recent TEPSIE and SI-DRIVE projects, including being responsible for digital social innovation aspects, as well as the current Social innovation Community project. His aim is to ensure that technology and governance serve both people and planet, and that benefits are widely spread to maximise smart, sustainable and inclusive growth providing prosperity and welfare for all through open governance institutions and processes.
Recent e-government related activities include on-going assignments for both the United Nations, regarding their biennial eGovernment Survey and public service strategies, and for the European Commission in developing social sciences and humanities research and innovation programmes for FP7 and H2020. He was also recently a member of the EC’s Policy Forum on Digital Entrepreneurship, and undertook a study on back-office developments in support of user-centred e-government strategies for the OECD. He continues to work with the UN on social development and technology issues for the 2030 sustainable development agenda, and with ESCWA on open government, e-participation and integrated service delivery across the Arab Region. In addition, he is currently working with the World Bank in India and South Korea on smart green city development, and recently developed open government and e-participation road maps for the Western Balkan countries, advised the Georgian government on their e-Georgia strategy, and co-authored a knowledge societies policy handbook for UNESCO. He works with partners to develop new business and social innovation models of change at organizational, spatial and societal levels. Jeremy also works on many social innovation projects and programmes, including the recent TEPSIE and SI-DRIVE projects, including being responsible for digital social innovation aspects, as well as the current Social innovation Community project. His aim is to ensure that technology and governance serve both people and planet, and that benefits are widely spread to maximise smart, sustainable and inclusive growth providing prosperity and welfare for all through open governance institutions and processes.
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Rethinking smart cities
The concept of smart cities, using ICT to provide, interconnect and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of basic urban infrastructures and human settlements more generally, is increasingly important. In most developed countries, and increasingly in the developing economies, the integration of ICT solutions to govern, support and manage a city’s assets, buildings, institutions, utilities, organizations and people, is emerging. For example, smart cities aim to coordinate and thus optimize transportation systems, hospitals, power plants, water supply networks, waste management, law enforcement, and other community services to increase both the efficiency and effectiveness of services. Digital government enables city officials to interact directly with each other as well as with citizens and businesses, link these to city infrastructures to improve the management of urban flows, and enable real time responses to problems. Through the use of sensors integrated with real-time monitoring systems, data is collected from both people and things through the IoT. The data is then processed and analyzed to enhance the quality, performance and interactivity of urban services, which thereby reduces both costs and resource consumption.
However, any adequate model for the smart city must also focus on the smartness of its citizens and encourage the processes, and especially social innovation processes, that make cities important. The danger of a one-size fits all, top-down view of urban development is underscored by the diverse needs of the inhabitants as individuals, households, neighborhoods, communities, organizations and businesses – that bring the city to life. Cities are, by definition, engines of diversity, so focusing solely on streamlining utilities, transport, construction and unseen government processes can be massively counter-productive. Instead, smart cities will be smart because their citizens have found new ways to craft, interlink and make sense of their own and each other’s assets, data and other resources through, for example, digital social innovation.
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eGovernment in 2020 and beyond
To unleash the potential that will bring the connection of worlds of public administration and private sector
Why not to miss the presentation?
You will find out how does think a visionary behind the politics of European Commission! Our discussion today will Jeremy Millard in future transform into EC regulations filling hundreds of project all over European Union.
Speaker: Jeremy Millard was a leader of evaluation of eGovernment Action Plan 2010 impacts and took part in e-Government Vision Study 2020 for EC. His presentation will focus how to fully unleash the potential of eGovernment. Now that western EU states have fully integrated public administration a man has to ask what will come next. The answer is another integration. The integration of worlds of public administration and private sector. Due to this integration development of public value and effectivity of public and private institutions will reach completely new level.
Executive Summary:
Jeremy Millard will discuss how ICT can enable a new open governance framework led by the public sector to become much more efficient and effective by linking and integrating the worlds inside government, as well as linking and integrating these with the worlds outside government for the specific purpose of creating public value. Although the public sector can in principle create public value on its own, its potential to do so is greatly enhanced and extended by direct cooperation with other actors, or by facilitating public value creation by other actors on their own. As the only institution backed by democratic accountability, government is best placed to address the many risks involved and will need to retain basic roles including setting overall quality standards, providing mechanisms for resource sharing, and determining legal frameworks. In other words, the public sector does not have a monopoly on public value creation, but it does have in most situations the prime role in ensuring that public value is created. Existing and new ICT is transforming the ability of government to act in these ways.
