University of Athens
Department of Informatics and Telecommunications
Electronic Government Laboratory
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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.