FASTeTEN: next project management meeting agenda now available

The next project management board meeting for the FASTeTEN project is planned for April 11, 2008, in Paris, France.

The outline agenda is :

09h30 Welcome

10h00 Follow-up of FASTeTEN review results

10h30 Review of work packages

13h00 Lunch

14h30 Review and update of the project memorandum

15h30 end (approx.)

The meeting is the first since a positive first review of the project by the European Commission. The independent reviewers appointed by the Commission found during the review on 22 January 2008 that the project had made "considerable progress", and offered "promising" initial results. FASTeTEN, coordinated by the Conseil General des Yvelines (Regional Council of Yvelines) in France, started at the beginning of 2007 and will conclude at the end of 2009. The job of FASTeTEN is to examine how the FAST (Fournisseur d’Accès Sécurisés Transactionnels or Secure Access Gateway) secure electronic document exchange system, developed in France, can be deployed for the benefit of administrations and citizens across Europe.

In order to do this, FASTeTEN is preparing two pilot deployments — in educational services in the city of Sheffield, United Kingdom, and in eProcurement in the region of Valencia, Spain. FASTeTEN will streamline the administration of certain aspects of these public services by introducing applications that will allow secure, fully trackable electronic document exchange. This is expected to result in considerable time, effort and money savings.

FASTeTEN has also convened a group of potential future deployers, who monitor the project with a view to streamlining their own public services using the FAST bundle of services, and who will benefit from FASTeTEN’s work to study legal and organisational, as well as technical, barriers. The potential deployers’ group includes public authorities from Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, and Malta.