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  1. [verwijderd] 17 september 2007 15:16
    Galileo Funding Solution Remains Elusive
    Monday, September 17, 2007

    European government and industry officials have begun to doubt whether a political consensus exists in Europe to complete the Galileo satellite navigation system.

    In public and private comments here Sept. 11, officials said the main government backers - Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain - appear far apart on how best to finance the 30-satellite constellation and the remaining portion of the associated ground network.

    Decisions at the European Union's executive commission and among EU governments in the coming weeks will determine whether any kind of Galileo network - with or without the special features that had set it apart from GPS - will be built.

    Attending a meeting here organized by the French IFRI foreign-affairs institute, officials noted that Galileo's expected in-service date has been pushed back by one year every year since the program was approved in 2001.

    Originally foreseen as operational in 2008, Galileo will not be completed until 2013 at the earliest, officials said - and only then if decisions on its financing are made in the coming months.

    Carlo des Dorides, head of the concession department at the European GNSS Supervisory Authority - a government body that oversees Galileo development - said Galileo construction and deployment is a 53-month program, whenever it begins. "If the green light is not given until next year, then further delays are unavoidable," des Dorides said.

    The program's backers have been regrouping since June, when the European Commission decided to scrap the original idea of having substantial private-sector participation in Galileo's financing.

    That means European governments must provide the estimated 2.4 billion euros ($3.3 billion) to complete the system on their own. Finding this money quickly in ways that will not infringe on European Commission regulations will not be easy and carries the risk of aggravating the differences in approach between the nations taking the biggest role in the program.

    The European Commission is scheduled to issue recommendations on Galileo financing Sept. 19. European transport ministers then will review the proposals Oct. 2, with European heads of state to be asked for their view in mid December. Officials said mid-2008 is the earliest feasible date for full approval of the new financing.

    As an illustration of how far the program has to go, one of the lead European Commission officials responsible for Galileo put the state of the debate this way: "Does Europe want or need its own satellite navigation system? Would we build the system even if we had to finance it publicly? Let's focus on the strategic questions," said Matthias Ruete, the European Commission's director general for energy and transport. European transport ministries are taking lead responsibility for financing Galileo.

    Ruete admitted that having to ask questions like this in late 2007 is surprising given the years of debate - and investment - that have gone into Galileo. The European Union and the European Space Agency already have spent some 1.5 billion euros on the program.

    If Galileo - the first major infrastructure program decided by the European Union - is abandoned, it will not be the first European space project to be shunted aside after $1 billion had been spent. In the mid-1990s, the European Space Agency shelved a planned astronaut-carrying space plane after its member governments, led by France, had spent a similar amount.

    Ruete said the biggest current threat to Galileo is the inability of certain European governments to set aside their usual struggles on behalf of their national industries on behalf of the project's general welfare. Still worse, he said, is the fact that individual European governments have multiple opinions.

    "We have 27 member states," Ruete said. "For each member state, we have five or six different authorities, all driving in different directions."

    Expressing hope that Galileo still might be saved, government and industry officials here sought to marshal arguments in favor of the project that they hope will resonate with government authorities.

    For Ruete, Galileo should be seen not as a money-making project so much as one that gives Europe independence in navigation, positioning and timing technologies that are ever-more important to modern societies.

    "Do we want to make more and more critical applications dependent on a system over which we have no control?" he asked, referring to the U.S. GPS satellite navigation and timing system, which by itself has created a global industry with annual revenue of several billion dollars.

    Gard Ueland, president of Kongsberg Seatex of Norway, a manufacturer of navigation gear and a member of Galileo Services, an association of companies backing Galileo, said U.S. companies have advantages in the use of GPS that non-U.S. companies do not have.

    But Ueland also conceded that the advantages of U.S. companies were mainly seen when GPS was first introduced more than a decade ago.

    David Iron, an expert on public-private partnerships at LogicaCMG of Britain, said Galileo is worth the investment even if the European Commission estimates of the jobs it will create - 150,000 - are unreliable.

    "If you take one-fifth that number - 30,000 jobs - you still generate some 600 million euros in economic activity and that covers the cost of the system," Iron said. "Galileo is justified on the tax-return basis alone."

    Mark Dumville, a director at Nottingham Scientific Ltd. of Britain, a developer of navigation software, said the only argument for Galileo that stands full scrutiny is based on strategic independence for Europe, and the quasi-military signal, called PRS, that Galileo is intended to carry.

    Dumville said that most other pro-Galileo arguments evaporate given the fact that both China and Russia are building global navigation systems that, when used in combination with GPS, will improve accuracy and signal reliability for users worldwide - just as would the combination of GPS with Galileo
  2. [verwijderd] 17 september 2007 20:44
    17 September 2007
    Major ITS conference will take place between 21st and 25th September 2009

    LogicaCMG, a major international force in IT and business services, today confirmed its sponsorship of the 16th intelligent transport systems (ITS) World Congress in Stockholm, Sweden between 21st and 25th September 2009.

    LogicaCMG offers systems and services from road pricing and traffic management through to safety and security and environmental management. It has long-term relationships with many world-leading organisations and was recently referred to as "an innovator and a leader" in ITS in a report by leading research organisation Ovum1. LogicaCMG has also developed a genuine understanding of the issues affecting the movement of goods and people and the related flows of information and money.

    Thomas Ivarson, Sales and Marketing Director for the Nordics at LogicaCMG, said: "We are delighted to confirm our sponsorship of the ITS World Congress 2009. The Congress attracts delegates from all over the world and with the theme of ITS in Daily Life, it has a specific objective to provide a safer, more integrated transport system that is accessible to all and has a reduced impact on the environment."

    Cees de Wijs, Group Director Intelligent Transport Systems, said: "As a leading global industry player with solutions to help achieve that objective, we are committed to innovation that will make potential ITS applications a commercial reality. That’s why it is so important for us to continue our history of participation in ITS events with a major role in the ITS World Congress 2009, and why we regularly contribute to the global debate on ITS with presentations, white papers2 as well as real life demonstrations."

    LogicaCMG enables private and public sector organisations to develop and manage modern transport infrastructure through the intelligent use of technology. It develops and delivers:

    • real-time traffic information services

    • large scale access control and ticketing services for public transport

    • infrastructure monitoring systems in rail

    • next-generation road pricing services

    • business consulting services

    • logistics systems and services

    • asset management solutions

    • applications management.

    LogicaCMG also contributes key capabilities on mobile messaging, Galileo-based location based services and large-scale billing and payment clearing systems. Via membership of national ITS communities in the UK, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Sweden and Australia and its prominent position within several long term ERTICO3 programmes LogicaCMG will drive future innovation together with clients from both the public and private sectors.

    NOTES TO EDITORS

    1. Ovum research report on LogicaCMG (outsourcing competitor analysis) by Ian Brown; August 2007

    2. Please visit www.logicacmg.com to download a free copy of LogicaCMG’s white paper "Moving towards sustainable transport"

    3 ERTICO represents the interests and expertise of around 100 Partners involved in providing Intelligent Transport Systems and Services (ITS). It facilitates the safe, secure, clean, efficient and comfortable mobility of people and goods in Europe through the widespread deployment of ITS.

    More information about the ITS World Congress 2009 is available at www.stockholm2009.se

  3. Robevis 18 september 2007 22:59
    Wall Street: grootste stijging voor Dow in ruim vier jaar
    14 min geleden
    In New York zijn de belangrijkste graadmeters dinsdag fors hoger gesloten. Het besluit van de Federal Reserve om het belangrijkste rentetarief onverwacht met 50 basispunten te verlagen tot 4,75%, zorgde voor een rally in aandelen

    Zouden wij dan morgen ook een paar centjes mogen stijgen, ongeacht ex-dividend?
  4. [verwijderd] 18 september 2007 23:33
    Zal mooi meegenomen zijn om een paar centjes te stijgen en evengoed dividend uitgekeerd krijgen.

    Onderstaande is ook positief.

    di 18 sep 2007, 18:14
    ICT inzetten voor de zorg
    door Alfred Monterie
    AMSTERDAM - Komend jaar moeten de voorbereidingen klaar zijn voor het landelijke elektronisch patiëntendossier, dat in 2009 zijn beslag moet krijgen. Medio 2008 zullen alle huisartsenposten en te minste de helft van de apotheken zijn aangesloten op dit informatiesysteem.


    Minister Ab Klink (Volksgezondheid) vindt dat ICT, veel meer dan nu het geval is, kan bijdragen aan een betere zorg. Ook kan hiermee een vermindering van de werkdruk worden bereikt. Dankzij elektronica in de woning kunnen mensen langer thuis wonen. Tegelijkertijd wordt zo arbeid bespaard.

    In 2008 komt Klink met maatregelen om de zorg door inzet van ICT efficiënter te maken. Met minder mensen moet een betere zorg mogelijk zijn.

    Bericht van site logicacmg:
    www.logicacmg.com/Netherlands/350233246

    Zorg
    Als zorgprofessional vindt u: zorg kan altijd beter! U bent pas tevreden als mensen weer gezond thuis zijn. U doet er alles aan om dat te bereiken. Elke dag weer. Wat dat betreft lijken we meer op elkaar dan dat u misschien op het eerste gezicht zou denken. Uw ICT is onze zorg. En wij zijn pas tevreden als u uw werk beter kunt doen dankzij onze systemen, oplossingen en advies.

    Het hele zorgveld
    Wij zijn actief in het hele zorgveld. Van het Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport tot zorgaanbieders en van koepelorganisatie tot zorgverzekeraar, overal komt u onze medewerkers tegen.

    In ziekenhuizen richten we ons onder andere op de selectie en invoering van het Elektronisch Patiënten Dossier (EPD), het inrichten en verbeteren van de processen, loon & salarisverwerking en outsourcing. Tevens realiseren wij de uitvoering van projecten gericht op Medicatie Dossiers en Diagnose Behandel Combinaties. Kortom, LogicaCMG richt zich op ontwikkelingen die voor uw bedrijfsvoering van essentieel belang zijn.

    Samen met u

    Bij alle opdrachten en projecten die wij voor onze klanten uitvoeren, staat ‘samenwerken’ centraal. Samen met u gaan we op zoek naar het best passende antwoord op uw vraag. Samen met u maken we het projectplan en voeren we het project zo goed mogelijk uit. Het gaat er tenslotte om dat uw organisatie en uw patiënten er beter van worden, dat u uw mogelijkheden optimaal benut. Daar helpen wij u graag bij.

  5. [verwijderd] 19 september 2007 15:47
    Brussel vindt geld voor Galileo project
    wo 19 sep 2007, 12:45

    De Europese Commissie heeft binnen de EU-begroting een bedrag van 2,4 miljard euro gevonden om Galileo, het megaproject voor satellieten, te kunnen voortzetten.

    De commissie vond 2,1 miljard euro bij de landbouwfondsen die dit jaar en volgend jaar niet gebruikt worden. Daarnaast wordt er 300 miljoen euro verschoven binnen het budget voor onderzoek en ontwikkeling.

    Brussel moest nieuw geld vinden toen een consortium van grote bedrijven zich terugtrok uit het project, dat in totaal 3,4 miljard euro gaat kosten. Nederland, maar ook andere EU-landen weigerden de Europese Commissie nieuw geld te geven om het financiële gat te dichten



  6. [verwijderd] 19 september 2007 15:55
    Ministerie van Verkeer en Waterstaat
    GEANNOTEERDE AGENDA
    TRANSPORT, TELECOM EN ENERGIERAAD VAN 2 OKTOBER 2007 ONDERDEEL TRANSPORT

    De eerste Transportraad onder Portugees Voorzitterschap kent weinig verrassingen. Belangrijk onderwerp op de Raad zal Galileo zijn.

    De Commissie komt eind september met een mededeling die een antwoord moet geven op de door de Raad gestelde voorwaarden voor het nemen van een besluit over de bouw van Galileo. Tezamen met deze mededeling zal een voorstel voor een wijziging van de financiële verordening worden uitgebracht waarin ook de extra middelen zijn opgenomen die nodig zijn omdat de Publiek Private Samenwerking niet mogelijk bleek. Zowel de mededeling als de verordening zijn op moment van schrijven nog niet uitgebracht.

    -Presentatie van de Commissie en een eerste gedachtewisseling

    De Commissie zal eind september een mededeling uitbrengen die een antwoord moet geven op de door de Raad gestelde voorwaarden voor het nemen van een besluit over de bouw van Galileo. Tezamen met deze mededeling zal een voorstel voor de wijziging van de financiële verordening worden uitgebracht waarin ook de extra middelen zijn opgenomen die nodig zijn omdat de Publiek Private Samenwerking niet mogelijk bleek. Dit betreft naar verwachting een extra bedrag van 2.4 miljard, naast de al in de Europese begroting opgenomen 1 miljard. Tijdens de Raad zullen deze documenten worden gepresenteerd en is discussie mogelijk.
  7. [verwijderd] 20 september 2007 21:58
    LOGICACMG DEMONSTRATES LEADERSHIP IN POST AND LOGISTICS SOLUTIONS AT POST-EXPO 2007
    20 September 2007


    LogicaCMG today announces that it will attend POST-EXPO 2007, which will be held in Barcelona from 2 – 4 October, 2007. LogicaCMG will exhibit its capabilities in the postal and logistics sector at the exhibition, including business innovation and outsourcing non-core activities as well as expertise in using mobile technology to improve postal supply chains. As part of this activity Marcel Mourits, Managing Consultant at LogicaCMG, will deliver a presentation on ‘Changes in Postal Organizations and how to cope with them" on 3 October. LogicaCMG will also sponsor an executive lunch on 3 October. The three-day POST-EXPO event attracts more than 4,000 top level attendees from 100 different countries and is recognised as the world’s premier event for the postal, mailing and parcel industry.

    LogicaCMG’s 30 years of system integration expertise means that it understands the complexities of designing and integrating systems in the postal and logistics sector. It has a particularly impressive track record of using mobile technology to improve supply chains. Andreas Rapp, Group Director for Post and Logistics at LogicaCMG, said: "Postal and logistics companies are facing a challenging business environment. We believe that the business pressures are so great that by 2015 there will be a much reduced number of postal companies in Europe. To survive and thrive, market players need to reduce costs, develop new business models and build customer intimacy. LogicaCMG is ideally positioned to help postal and logistics companies to address these challenges and turn them into opportunities." For more information about POST-EXPO 2007 please visit www.postexpo.com/

  8. [verwijderd] 23 september 2007 12:20
    LogicaCMG and VPI launch OnePlan solution
    Dubai : Sat, 22 Sep 2007

    LogicaCMG has tied up with VPIsystems to offer the OnePlan planning solution to its wireline and wireless carrier customers.

    OnePlan will complement LogicaCMG's existing suite of OSS and BSS solutions, and fully integrate into customers' existing infrastructures.

    Aimed at carriers, enterprises, network operators and even equipment vendors, OnePlan designs and dimensions a network across all layers (access, metro and core) and across IP-based and legacy technologies.

    With the addition of OnePlan, LogicaCMG further strengthens its comprehensive telecommunications solution, taking customers seamlessly from service creation to delivery, said an official spokesman.

    LogicaCMG will manage the OnePlan integration and the overall implementation, including aligning the solution with existing systems and developing new business processes.

    LogicaCMG's next-generation business support systems are designed to create flexibility and provide the fast time-to-market required for new services and convergence. OnePlan will ensure this flexibility and speed is not achieved at the loss of control.LogicaCMG's new partnership will have significant potential in the Middle East's increasingly liberalised telecommunication market.

    The benefits of LogicaCMG's value added business service, combined with VPIsystem's resource planning software, will provide an important resource to regional carriers, network operators and equipment vendors.

    'LogicaCMG with are confident that the inclusion of VPIsystems OnePlan into our global OSS portfolio will provide operators with the ability to plan, build and transform networks in line with their business, aspirations,' said managing director, Telecoms and Media at LogicaCMG, Thomas Breuer.

    'With the liberalisation of the telecom market in the region, LogicaCMG and its international partners can play a key role in providing value add service to the growing industry,' said managing director, Telecom and Media, Middle East and Africa, LogicaCMG, Dr Mohsen Mohseninia.

    TradeArabia News Service

  9. [verwijderd] 24 september 2007 08:36
    Funding for Galileo System Is Proving Elusive In Coming Weeks, Europe To Determine Future of Satellite Program

    BRUSSELS — European govern¬ment and industry officials have begun to doubt whether a political consensus exists to complete the Galileo satellite navigation system.
    In public and private comments here Sept. 11, officials said the main government backers — Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain — appear far apart on how best to finance the 30-satellite constellation and the remaining portion of the as¬sociated ground network.

    Decisions at the European Union’s executive commission and among EU governments in the coming weeks will determine whether any kind of Galileo net¬work — with or without the special features that had set it apart from GPS — will be built.
    Attending a meeting here organ¬ized by the French IFRI foreign-af¬fairs institute, officials noted that Galileo’s expected in-service date has been pushed back by one year every year since the program was approved in 2001.
    Originally foreseen as operational in 2008, Galileo will not be com¬pleted until 2013 at the earliest, of¬ficials said — and then only if de¬cisions on its financing are made in the coming months.

    Carlo des Dorides, head of the concession department at the Eu¬ropean GNSS Supervisory Authori¬ty, a government body that over¬sees Galileo development, said building and launching it will take 53 months from the time it begins.
    “If the green light is not given un¬til next year, then further delays are unavoidable,” des Dorides said.
    The program’s backers have been regrouping since June, when the European Commission decided to scrap the original idea of having substantial private-sector partici¬pation in Galileo’s financing.

    That means European govern¬ments must provide the estimated 2.4 billion euros ($3.3 billion) to complete the system on their own. Finding this money quickly in ways that will not infringe on European Commission regulations will not be easy and carries the risk of aggra¬vating the differences in approach between the nations taking the biggest role in the program.

    The European Commission is scheduled to issue recommenda¬tions on Galileo financing Sept. 19. European transport ministers then will review the proposals Oct. 2, with European heads of state to be asked for their views in mid-De¬cember. Officials said mid-2008 is the earliest feasible date for full ap¬proval of the new financing.

    One of the lead European Com¬mission officials responsible for Galileo described the debate.
    “Does Europe want or need its own satellite navigation system? Would we build the system even if we had to finance it publicly? Let’s focus on the strategic questions,” said Matthias Ruete, the European Commission’s director general for energy and transport. European transport ministries are taking lead responsibility for financing Galileo.
    Ruete said having to ask ques¬tions like this in late 2007 is sur¬prising given the years of debate — and investment — that have gone into Galileo. The European Union and the European Space Agency al¬ready have spent about 1.5 billion euros on the program.

    If Galileo — the first major infra¬structure program decided by the European Union — is abandoned, it will not be the first European space project to be shunted aside after $1 billion had been spent. In the mid-1990s, the European Space Agency shelved a planned astro¬naut-carrying space plane after its member governments, led by France, had spent a similar amount.

    Ruete said the biggest current threat to Galileo is the inability of certain European governments to set aside their usual struggles on behalf of their national industries for the project’s general welfare. Still worse, he said, is the fact that individual European governments have multiple opinions.
    “We have 27 member states,” Ruete said. “For each member state, we have five or six different authorities, all driving in different directions.”

    Expressing hope that Galileo still might be saved, government and in¬dustry officials here sought to mar¬shal arguments in favor of the proj¬ect that they hope will resonate with government authorities.
    For Ruete, Galileo should be seen not as a money-making project so much as one that gives Europe in¬dependence in navigation, posi¬tioning and timing technologies that are ever more important to modern societies.

    “Do we want to make more and more critical applications depend¬ent on a system over which we have no control?” he asked, refer¬ring to the U.S. GPS satellite navi¬gation and timing system, which by itself has created a global industry with annual revenue of several bil¬lion dollars.
    Gard Ueland, president of Kongs¬berg Seatex of Norway, a manufac¬turer of navigation gear and a mem¬ber of Galileo Services, an associa¬tion of companies backing Galileo, said U.S. companies have an ad¬vantages in the use of GPS that non-U.S. companies do not have.
    But Ueland also conceded that the advantages of U.S. companies were seen mainly when GPS was first introduced more than a decade ago.

    David Iron, an expert on public-private partnerships at LogicaCMG of Britain, said Galileo is worth the investment even if the European Commission estimates of the jobs it will create — 150,000 — are unreli¬able.
    “If you take one-fifth that number — 30,000 jobs — you still generate some 600 million euros in econom¬ic activity and that covers the cost of the system,” Iron said.

    Mark Dumville, a director at Britain’s Nottingham Scientific, a developer of navigation software, said the only argument for Galileo that stands full scrutiny is based on strategic independence for Europe, and the quasi-military signal, called PRS, that it is intended to carry.
    Dumville said most other pro-Galileo arguments evaporate given the fact that both China and Rus¬sia are building global navigation systems that, when used in combi¬nation with GPS, will improve ac¬curacy and signal reliability for users worldwide — just as the combination of GPS with Galileo would.
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