48 Technical Symposium PRESENTATIONS: * Towards a Pragmatic Methodology to Bridge the Gap in e-Government Interoperability * Challenges Facing the South Pacific Islands in Ensuring Universal Access to Communications Services * Priority Access for Public Safety on Shared Commercial LTE Networks The strategic plans of many governments involve the creation of advanced solutions with integrated e-services and one stop service. Policies typically involve obligations such as the universal provision of affordable and reliable access to information services. They also address the security and protection of the nation and individuals. Electronic government interoperability frameworks are vital tools for achieving effective eGovernment and require problems to be solved at the business as well as the technical level. Private sector involvement is seen as increasingly important in overseeing and implementing policies and is essential in innovative schemes where the public safety community shares radio access network resources with commercial providers. Wednesday 26.10.2011 14:00-15:30 LabSpace #4 Efficiency Challenges of eGovernment Technical Symposium Session PRESENTATIONS: * Towards 0-Touch Networks * Network Implications of Cloud Computing * Role of SON in Human Centric Intelligent Society * Design Considerations for Mobility Management in Future Infrastructure Networks With the rapid global growth of the Internet and mobile Internet, the next decade is envisaged to emerge as the decade of the “networked society” and “smart cities”. Robust, reliable and dependable network connectivity is a crucial element to support this vision in which emerging self-organization and self-optimization technologies will play an increasingly expanding role. Robust, mission-critical cloud solutions will require a variety of diverse multi-layer networking technologies, self-service and APIs for network controls. The introduction of autonomic and cognitive capabilities will be necessary to improve the manageability and flexibility of the infrastructure. There is a stringent need to embrace new concepts for future management and control of networked systems. Wednesday 26.10.2011 14:00-15:30 LabSpace #3 New Concepts for Future Networks Technical Symposium Session