Ingrid Götzl
TeleCities President, City of Vienna

TeleCities is a network of about 120 European cities, including metropoles, small and medium-sized cities. The network co-operates Europe-wide on issues relating to the Information Society and is chaired by the City of Vienna; key business partners are joined as associate members. The TeleCities profile is based on a combination of networking activities, on research and high-level strategic work which targets on the definition of Information Society initiatives, and resulting policies of European cities.
A short outlook of a city on its way towards a "New Digital City" is given using the City of Vienna as an example, presenting its strategic objectives, the state of the art of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and some policy related projects.
Finally, the interdependencies between New Digital Cities and a New Technologies´ Network are demonstrated by giving a short decription of the TeleCities network and its actual projects.

Ms Gotzl has been working for the Vienna City Administration/IT section since 1982. Responsible as project manager for numerous IT projects in the sectors of Budget Clearing, Welfare and Healthcare. Since 1996 she has been working in the Chief Executive Office/ICT Management and Policy, where she is the executive officer for Human Resources/IT and EU related ICT matters. Ms Ingrid Gotzl has received a BSc Honors Degree of the University of Derby in 2001 for her thesis on introduction and use of telework in public administration with special emphasis on organisational aspects and the relationship between telework and eGovernment. Having been appointed as representative of the City of Vienna to the TeleCities Steering Committee since 1998, Ms Gotzl has been holding the office of TeleCities Presidency since January 2001 as deputy for the Mayor of Vienna. Furthermore, Ms Gotzl represents the City of Vienna in the Austrian Association of Cities and Towns/IT section.

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