The XX Euro-Mediterranean Conference " e-health for all "

This year the Euro-Mediterranean Conference celebrates its twentieth anniversary in the other side of the Mediterranean and specifically in Hammamet, on 23 September, in the framework of the great “ICT4All” event organized by the Government of Tunisia.

The socioeconomic integration process in the Mediterranean area will be re-launched starting from the concept of sustainability, considering the fact that UN is elaborating the Post-2015 Agenda as the new strategy from the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals.

The title of the event is:

The digital approach to build a sustainable mediterranean development and socioeconomic integration

Organized annually since the Barcelona Agreements in 1995, the conference provides an instrument of reflection about the role that communication and new technologies play in the integration process of the Mediterranean, each year identifying and encouraging initiatives that offer concrete support to furthering the Euro-Mediterranean dialogue.

The XX Euro-Mediterranean Conference will be organized in 3 main sessions:

1. the global strategy to activate an effective development and integration through the new digital services;

2. the Mediterranean platform for e-services, applied by the E-MedMed project for e-health for all;

3. a new alliance between ICT stakeholders and private-public users for the sustainable development goals in the Mediterranean area.

The discussion arising from the 19th edition of the Euro-Mediterranean Conference, held in Venice on 6 September 2013 about the evolution of digital revolution and the related opportunities opened in the Mediterranean region, lead by representatives of governments, international organizations, public and private institutions, media experts, men and women from the field of culture, brought to the conception of the E-Med Med project as a catalytic initiative able to accelerate the process of transition from the traditional e-governance practices to the new digital applications for all.

Based on the Digital Services Global Platform, launched by the Infopoverty Program during its 14th World Conference held at the UN headquarters in NY last April, the E-MedMed project, elaborated by OCCAM, the UN associate observatory on digital era, is promoted by the Italian and French government, in the framework of the Union for Mediterranean, with the participation of Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt and Libya.

The project is an advanced example of practice of telemedicine able to empower the existent infrastructures and the human resources of the South Mediterranean countries, in order to give solution to the general needs of national health policies. This cooperation has been experimented in various African countries, starting from the pilot ICTVillage Model created in Borj Touil in the occasion of the WSIS 2005.

The discussion between the mains stakeholders will be employed to analyze the situation and propose solutions and actions at various institutional levels in order to actively contribute in creating new synergies and take advantage of the opportunity that this particular moment offers to this area, giving at the Mediterranean a new centrality, and ready to accept the challenge that the new generation hopefully present.

Source OCCAM