iemens IT Solutions and Services is the E-Poll project leader (co-ordinator). It is responsible for the over-all project management with the aim of ensuring a proper co-ordination across tasks and part-ners and achieving the overall project objectives within time and budget constraints.
It has been stated that Siemens IT Solutions and Services will be in charge of the administrative and techni-cal management of the project since it has developed in the past years specific competencies in this sector, having been and being now project co-ordinator also in EU funded projects. This responsibility will be accompanied by proper resources and expertise, to ensure the achievement of the project results.
The work carried out in WP7 - Project Management is addressed to provide effective project management at all stages, providing regular progress reports to the European Commission, to supervise the technical progress of the project and to establish and maintain effective commu-nication between project partners, workpackage leaders and other project participants.
In addition, Siemens IT Solutions and Services is responsible for WP3 - Rollouts Set-up. In this role it per-forms activities, at local/central level, in order to launch the e-vote rollouts on the basis of the E-Poll platform. This entails setting up the organization and technology tuning: procurement of devices/services needed, a proper customisation of the services to be delivered, definition of features in the user interface, etc.
Siemens IT Solutions and Services will drive the verification of the possible business model (procurement carried out at local or national level).
Siemens IT Solutions and Services is the responsible partner in:
WP3, Roll Out Set-up;
WP7, Project Management.
Moreover it is involved in:
WP1, Regulations and specifications;
WP2, Infrastructure;
WP4, Rollouts;
WP5, Assessment and dissemination.
WP6, Rollout to further deployment.
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talian Ministry of Interior contributes to the E-Poll project with its knowledge as being the Authority in charge of all the election operations, either national or local.
In the project it represents at the same time the headquarter of the E-Poll Italian rollout and one of the buyer.
It is responsible for WP4 - Rollouts. Italian Ministry of Interior will identify the pathway for rollout activities. Since the target is very high (with reference to citizens involved in electoral events) this activity is very challenging.
Since the initial E-Poll pathway in Italy has been already identified, Italian Ministry of Inte-rior is the natural candidate in managing this responsibility.
Italian Ministry of Interior contributes to all the other workpackages also involving other Ital-ian validation authorities, i.e. CNIPA Centro Nazionale per l'Informatica nella Pubblica Am-ministrazione (National Centre for Informatic in Public Administration).
Italian Ministry of the Interior is the responsible partner in:
WP4, Rollouts.
Moreover it is involved in:
WP1, Regulations and specifications;
WP2, Infrastructure;
WP3, Roll Out Set-up;
WP5, Assessment and dissemination;
WP6, Rollout to further deployment;
WP7, Project management.
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elecom Italia is responsible of WP2 - Infrastructure. In this workpackage activities are car-ried out in order to prepare the rollout scenarios in each country. It is necessary to activate the nodes allowing to properly start the next phase at European level. In order to do so, the whole consortium has to define a proper methodology for standardise the process, and formulate a charter of e-vote providers to be contacted in order to start calculating efforts of workforce devoted to sales, post sales and maintenance. Subsequently, each country has to implement the methodology at the local level, and to adapt the business to national specific regulations.
Telecom Italia is the responsible partner in:
WP2, Infrastructure.
Moreover it is involved in:
WP1, Regulations and specifications;
WP3, Roll Out Set-up;
WP4, Rollouts;
WP5, Assessment and dissemination;
WP6, Rollout to further deployment;
WP7, Project management.
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rench Ministry of Interior provides the consortium with its expertise all the project lasting. More particularly the Ministry co-ordinates the WP5 - Assessment and dissemination.
The main objective is, after each rollout, to collect and evaluate feedback coming from any of the stakeholders involved in the E-Poll deployment. Therefore, French Minsitry of Interior will drive a consolidated assessment, able to return a clear picture of the E-Poll deployment. It will also coordinate activities lead to promoting e-voting services at European level, mainly through dedicated workshops.
This WP includes also the extension of the Consortium with other entities, in order to enlarge the E-Poll network up to other potential investors.
The Ministry of Interior ensures the coordination of a Project Steering Committee gathering the Executive Task Force also by selecting consultants well-reputated for having lead similar projects and for having a great expertise in this field, but also because these consultants are used to work with the Ministries.
French Ministry of Interior is the responsible partner in:
WP5, Assessment and dissemination.
Moreover it is involved in:
WP1, Regulations and specifications;
WP2, Infrastructure;
WP3, Roll Out Set-up;
WP4, Rollouts;
WP6, Rollout to further deployment;
WP7, Project management.
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xperian is responsible for WP1 - Regulations and Specifications. As stated before, WP1 will produce a sort of guideline, useful for the Countries within the Union interested in going ahead with e-voting. The guideline will cover also local national issues and logistic concerns. Experian will manage the setting-up and will coordinate the activities of the three national Committees, warranting that all the major stakeholders are invited to contribute their inputs.
Experian is the responsible partner in:
WP1, Regulations and specifications.
Moreover it is involved in:
WP5, Assessment and dissemination;
WP7, Project management.
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the Ministry of Justice coordinates WP6 - Rollout to further deployment. In this workpackage the main role is to define a final deployment scenario of the E-Poll service at a European level.
The aim of this phase is to allow partners and public decision-makers, to have a relevant set of criteria and figures formulated in a buyer perspective. In this phase the Ministry of Justice leads the individuation of relevant sets of criteria and figures which allow partners and public decision-makers, to invest onto E-Poll having a clear and tailored view of the future action for its full deployment.
The effort coordinated by Ministry of Justice consists in picking-up experiences and data coming from the rollout of E-Poll and evaluate the opportunity to use it in other contests, minimising the investment for a new use.
In this perspective a goal should be taken into consideration: the difficulty related to the replication which comes up from the fact that buyers (customers) of E-Poll, in many cases, are not the final beneficiary of its service.
Goal of the WP is also to indicate practical barriers that prevent the services across and between international, national and regional borders. Having in mind the peculiarities of the voting processes in each European country, a law and normative benchmarking will be performed.
The Ministry of Justice is the responsible partner in:
WP6, Rollout to further deployment.
Moreover it is involved in:
WP1, Regulations and specifications;
WP3, Roll Out Set-up;
WP5, Assessment and dissemination;
WP7, Project management.
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