Partners

Present in more than 40 countries on the five continents, approximately 35% of the income came from its international activity during 2004 (25 % Europe, 3% USA, 4% Latin America and 3% Other). Its position was strengthened by a network of delegations & permanent offices, which enables the company to acquire great knowledge of the markets where it operates, as well as by international agreements and strategic alliances.

Indra´s background in Elections/Polls dates back to 1978. Since then, Indra has undertaken the responsibility for the design, development and implementation of almost all election processes held in Spain with more than 70 electoral references, being the main customer the General Office of Domestic Policy and Election Processes of the Ministry of Interior.

At national level, Indra has carried out all the General and Local elections (Mayors of almost 9000 municipalities), the majority of the elections for the 17 Regional Governments Parliaments and all referenda and elections for the European Parliament. Since the beginning of the 1990´s Indra has undertaken more than 30 national and regional elections in Latin American countries, including Venezuela, Argentina, Nicaragua, etc.

Most of Indra´s solutions came from participating in research and development programs. Indra is highly aware of the importance of the Community´s R&D activities. The company has participated in a large number of European projects since 1986, because it is convinced that research and expansion are the key factors in any corporate development. Some important projects in the last years have been:

• ESPRIT/20588 REFINE (96-98)
• ESPRIT/6083 UNITE (92-96 Coord)
• ESPRIT/20344 CARES (96-98)
• IBEROEKA/IB-38 IMPACTO (94-98 Coord)
• TELEMATICS/TR1007 CAPITAL (96-98)
• TELEMATICS/AD1014 SPACE (96-98)
• TELEMATICS/AD1005 EUROVET (96-98)
• TELEMATICS/IE8030 GISEDI (98-01)
• SPRI/23287 ADDE (97-99)
• TELEMATICS/AD4002 EULEGIS (98-00)
• IST200, etc

The role in the project

The broad experience of INDRA in designing, developing and deployment of different customized Internet products customized to the user requirements, and the previous development of the System OPINA and Internet Voting System, guarantees its capacity to modify these systems to comply with the maximum levels of accessibility.

The development will be executed by Indra, but the contribution of all the partners is essential and the results will be a consequence of the whole process efficiency.

During the customización of the user requirements, a partner of each place will manage the functionality to cover all the requirements. Each partner must follow all the process of meetings and be prepared for collaboration that will be considered necessary. All will acquire the necessary knowledge to be able to offer the service of help and maintenance to the personnel who will administer the system from the client.

Indra will assume the following responsibilities and tasks:

Development of the necessary modifications in both systems

The first task will be to analyze, to evaluate and to diagnose both products against to the standards internationally recognized, drafting a document for each system that reflects the level of accessibility of the web system by people with a certain type of disability, detailing for each point of verification, all the conditioners detected and the alternative ways to solve them, so that it allows to improve this accessibility, finally recommendations will be given to the equipment of development and the conclusions will be published.

Later and with the recommendations obtained in the previous stage, the corrections, modifications and improvements will be made on both products.

Once implemented all the necessary actions on products, the objective of the following phase of the development is to verify that the systems fulfil the persecuted result, to facilitate the access and the use of the systems by different user groups (handicapped or not).

For it, Indra will work with different groups and from different perspectives:

• The equipment of experts from Indra S.A.
• The equipment of experts from the partners of the project.
• The Group of Internet Accessibility from the Centre of Tiflotecnica of research, development and application (CIDAT) from the blind national organization of Spain (ONCE).

System Integration, tests and Demonstration Preparation/ Pilot

Once finalized the development and defined all the cases of test, it will begin the accomplishment of the necessary tests to verify the fulfilment of the standards and the improvement in the functionality of the products/systems.

Also a demonstration will be made to obtain the initial "feedback", to identify integration problems and to make the necessary changes.

Finally it will be done the definition of the real pilot and the preparation of a validation plan, defining the criteria to evaluate the results in terms of the system operation, satisfaction and effectiveness.

Demonstration Deployment and Pilot Evaluation

Finally it will be done the deployment of the systems in real situations, making a pilot of e-vote and citizen participation, in each country of the members of the project.

The tasks for the system's deployment to the user sites, the tests and evaluation are:

• To deploy the product to the pilot sites. This task involves both a technical content (installation, performance, verification, etc..) as well as a non-technical content (definition, adapting the user sites, training, etc..).
• To run and monitor the validation tests. The aim is to conduct the test as a simulation of a real system, gathering the results and the user´s feedback for the later analysis.
• To evaluate the results of the validation tests.

The main areas of work of Medius D.O.O. are the application integration based on Java middleware products and J2EE specification. It integrates mission-critical OLTP applications and legacy systems (SAP, BaaN.) with WEB applications and client-server applications by means of introducing centralized services of business such as: WEB services, Java connectors, CORBA business rules, JMS, EJB, etc.

Application development of the mission-critical OLTP and form based applications, using the Internet infrastructure, and their own developed methodology that clearly separates the presentation logic from the application logic by using various object oriented patterns like Model-Controller-View, Access Objects, UseCase and Activity Diagram patterns, Subject-Observer etc., all based on J2EE specification and Java middleware products.

Application development of the multimedia data acquisition tools used for the management of contents, distance learning and knowledge management portals, Web based catalog and the remote enterprise multimedia collaboration systems, all based on the Java middleware and the Open Source products.

A training centre specialized in Java middleware (courses of Corba, EJB, JSP, Servlets), application integration (courses JMS, SOAP, XML, etc), and object-oriented programming (UML, object patterns).

The role in the project

The contribution of all partners is essential in order to be close to the people that will manage the system. It is important to cover the needs and expectations of the cities, regions or states that will implement the systems.

The contribution of Medius to the project will be to customize the products to the specifics needs of other organizations and help them to deploy the solutions developed by the project. It will be executed because his consultants have years of experience in developing Java middleware technology and coordinating successful mission-critical projects in the government area.

During the customization of the user requirements, Medius will provide with any necessary information in order to cover all the user requirements. He will be trained in order to give an excellent customer service to the officers that will manage the systems.

Medius exploitation plans for the results of the project concentrate on the receipt of technology, the customization of the technology to the specific user requirements and its use for promoting new citizens´s services.

Technical contributions

Medius is the responsible of the development of the project web site, and also will perform activities to adapt the systems to be tested in Slovenia, that are:

• User and technical requirements analysis. It will establish a clear understanding of the specifications for the trials:
  • To establish the users requirements.
  • To identify the scope of the trial tests.
  • To compile the required information to run the trial tests.
  • To identify any special service or system required to perform the trials: operation procedures, training, handbooks, etc...
• To make the preliminary test to the modified systems.
• Customization of the module and interfaces.
  • To adequate the initial load of data.
  • To customise the user interface through the web screen. The result must ensure that all the functions are according to the pilots´ format and language.
• Systems integration and local demonstration to get early feedback identify accessibility problems and make the necessary changes.
• Final definition of the tests and preparation a validation plan, defining the criteria to evaluate the results in terms of system accessibility, performance and satisfaction.
  • To deploy the system to the pilot sites.
  • To run and monitor the validation tests.
  • To evaluate technically the results of the validation tests.
• Test the system in Slovenia.
• Medius is also responsible to promote the systems in his country.

EUROGRAPH is based in Bucharest, Romania and operates in all European countries.

EUROGRAPH strives to introduce innovative technology into Romania and to contribute to the competitiveness of the Romanian SMEs in selected areas of economic importance.

EUROGRAPH provides technical, business and strategic consultancy related to the RTD Frameworks (FP6, FP7) of the European Commission, mainly related to the Information Society Technology area, but not excluding others areas.

EUROGRAPH RAM IMPEX SRL was set up early in 1994. In the last 6 years, EUROGRAPH RAM IMPEX SRL has focused its activities on consulting in marketing and management, as well as on promoting the RTD Framework Programmes of the European Commission, on international cooperation within the EC funded research projects and on promoting, supporting and using the Information and Communications Technologies by SMEs and public institutions in Romania.

Company's resources and background

EUROGRAPH's activity is based on a flexible group of 9-12 specialists attracted on a project-by-project and part-time basis to work for company's projects. EUROGRAPH has constantly specialists in the fields like IST, including system analysis and design, programming, fixed and mobile communications, GIS, web design and databases, marketing, advertising, management, foresight

Foresight skills

EUROGRAPH has a good background in foresight, as employees have participated in two EC funded projects (ForSociety - a FP6 SSA project and Forsociety ERA NET - a FP6 CA project), are trained by UNIDO (2003) and PREST (2005) as foresight organisers and practitionnaires and are involved in national foresight exercises.

Technical assistance for FP6 / FP7

EUROGRAPH has focused its activity towards specific support actions, mainly associated to IST EC funded projects related to the improvement of the communication relationships between public administration institutions and citizens within the local communities, eHealth, e-business, knowledge economy, mobile communication, logistics, foresight as well as accompanying measures like organizing scientific workshops and conferences. In 2002 FP6 related activities were started, providing regularly information and appropriate consultation to the newcoming SMEs and research organizations. More than 165 companies have taken advantage of the EUROGRAPH expertise in the field of the EC programmes and the new instruments. EUROGRAPH is itself actually a partner in two FP6 funded projects:

• EPIST - Enhanced participation in IST projects related to eHealth and eInclusion (contract 015920 / 2005) - www.epist.org
• EPISTEP - Enhanced Participation of SMEs in IST European Technology Platforms (contract 023295 / 2005) - www.epist.org

Services

EUROGRAPH offers its 10 years of experience in European sources of funding, in development of proposals and in running of the EC funded projects.

The primary types of services include:

FP6 / FP7 Call identification:

Searching for open Calls and Tenders suitable to a clients' profile

Support for proposal development:

Developing proposals or part of a proposal on behalf of a client including quality check or check for relevance to the specific requirements of the Call or Tender.

Partner search and finding:

Searching for partners on behalf of a client using extensive contacts; obtaining invitations to proposals; assisting in forming consortia

Assistance for proposal and project management:

Negotiations and formulating partnership agreement; administrative and project management in EU funded projects

Assistance via EPIST project in the areas of eHealth and eInclusion:

When the EPIST project will be finished, EUROGRAPH will use the all project instruments to give the most appropriate and suitable support for the Romania IST organizations for the enhancement of their successful participation in the European Commission funding RTD IST related Programmes.

Assistance via EPISTEP project in the areas of the ENIAC, eMobility and ARTEMIS European Technological Platforms:

When the EPISTEP project will be finished, EUROGRAPH will support the participation of the Romanian SMEs to three of the European Technological Platforms: ENIAC, in the field of nanoelectronics, eMobility, in the field of mobile communication based services and ENIAC, in the field of embedded systems.

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