During its annual meetingn held in Luxembourg City on May 30, the Steering Committee of Global Cities Dialogue, an international association non-profit making for local elected representatives on Information Society, published a report on mobile services implemented within the network members.
Around André Santini, Chairman of the GCD, mayor of Issy-les-Moulineaux (France) and Minister of State for Civil Service, Paul Helminger, mayor of Luxembourg City and MP, Ndiawar Touré, mayor of Rufisque and MP (Senegal), Adriano Alessandrini, mayor of Segrate (Italy) and vice-president of the GCD for Europe, Pekka Sauri, Deputy-mayor of Helsinki (Finland) and representatives of the cities of Bremen and Cologne, in Germany, Metz in France, and Riga in Latvia.
International Association non-profit-making, Global Cities Dialogue is an open and free platform for all local elected representatives who want to work together to accomplish this commitment of dialogue on the building of the Information society which enlivens this network since its foundation in Helsinki, in 1999.
A report on mobile services within the GCD cities was introduced in Luxembourg, a city exemplary in this domain. Inhabitants can buy their bus ticket, pay the parking and buy official documents by SMS and use Mesh WiFi network to achieve especially developed services. This GCD report shows that WiFi networks development everywhere in the world, including in Africa and in Latin America and that mobile services concern a broad palette of activities: local information, public transport, security, tourism, parking, or health, as in Korea. Téléchargement mobile_services.pdf
An agreement of collaboration was also signed with Politech Institute, the European centre on political technologies, which think about the modernization of political life in the information society.
Finally, the Steering Committee arranges to meet to all GCD members in Lyon for the next General Assembly meeting on the occasion of international Conference on Digital Solidarity organized by the Worldwide Agency of Digital Solidarity, at the instigation of the Senegalese President Wade and at the invitation of the president Sarkozy, on November 24th and at the European show room on technologies, ICT 2008, who takes place from 25 till 27 November.
