Philippe Borremans
PR Manager
tel: +32.2.225.2773
philippe_borremans@be.ibm.com
http://www.ibm.com


Eric Goderniaux
Project Manager
IBM Business Consulting Services
Woluwe Garden
Woluwedal 22
B-1932 St-Stevens-Woluwe
Belgium
eric_goderniaux@be.ibm.com

IBM

IBM Germany is the European Center of Competence for Set Top Box and Residential Gateway Solutions and will extend these solutions with open-standards based, multimodal and replicable e-Government applications, to enable the domestic and worldwide dissemination of the SAFIR solution.
IBM Czech Republic, Voice Technologies and Systems group will develop new adaptive and multilingual version of the Embedded ViaVoice speech recognition engine and port it to different platforms. It is targeting mobile and embedded devices with limited resources CPU and small footprint.
IBM Belgium will perform the Administration Management of the project and the Financial Coordination. IBM Belgium is contractually the Project Coordinator of SAFIR

Charles Kemper
CEO
tel: +32.2.529.5812
press@voice-insight.com
http://www.voice-insight.com

Voice-Insight

The Voice-Insight role within the Safir project is to allow the robust and easy voice enabling of existing data using the company's proprietary patented VQL technology.
We are pleased and honored to collaborate with prestigious partners out of 8 European countries.

Excelsiorlaan 44-46
B - 1930 Zaventem
phone +32 2 724 51 11
fax +32 2 724 50 60
e-mail: info.proton@st.com
website: www.st.com/proton

STMicroelectronics

STMicroelectronics is a global leader in developing and delivering semiconductor solutions across the spectrum of microelectronics applications.
A chipcard is accepted as a light-weight, but powerful, device that can not only store a lot of data, but also can provide a high level of security for data transfers or transactions. STMicroelectronics is putting its extensive know-how in the area of smart card systems and solutions at the disposal of the SAFIR consortium to research the requirements and develop the software needed to port multiple biometric data on a smart card and allow secure authentication of cardholders that want to access e-government databases. ST will base this solution on its Proton Prisma smart card technology.

SYNERGIUMS S.A.:
Directeur du projet Safir : Alain Lefèvre
Email : alain.lefevre@synergiums.com
Tel. : +352 27 62 08 201
Web : www.synergiums.com

SYNERGIUMS S.A.

SYNERGIUMS’ team is specialized in:  

• Generic and specialised process modelling.
• Model, manage and index data.
• Analyse and utilise the information by means of semantic treatment, ontology and bibliometrics.
• Model, work out, manage and disseminate geographical information.
• Secure and manage process and data access. 

Mijntje Spaapen, PR and Communication, Geodan Mobile Solutions
+31 20 5711319
mijntje.spaapen@geodan.com
http://www.geodan.com/mobilesolutions

Geodan Mobile Solutions

Geodan Mobile Solutions will develop on its strong position in the public order and safety market to develop the SAFIR technology for the Police and emergency sector. SAFIR voice and graphics technology will lower the barrier to the full use of mobile technology and devices by providing easy and intuitive interfaces, which are crucial in emergency, time-critical situations

Adonis KONTOS, President
38 KIFISSIAS AV.
15125 MAROYSSI-ATHENS
Greece
Tel.:00302106198866,
Fax:00302106198825
marathon@otenet.gr

Marathon Data Systems

F. Leruth
MRW-DGPL-Service Carto
Rue Van Opré 95, B - 5100 Jambes, Belgique +32(0)81323261
f.leruth@mrw.wallonie.be

L. Heymans,
MET-D.432-Topo & Carto
Bd du Nord 8, B - 5000 Namur, Belgique
+32(0)81773347,
lheymans@met.wallonie.be
http://cartographie.wallonie.be

Contact presse:
Hugues BAYET
hugues.bayet@gov.wallonie.be
http://egov.wallonie.be

Ministère de la Région Wallonne

The Walloon Region's role in the EC SAFIR project is to provide and improve the InfraSport geodatabase as a support for databases quality research.
This should permit high technological access (VQL) to the information trough the e-Gov portals taking into account multilinguism aspects and ontologies.

Mr. Alessandro ANNONI
Via Fermi 1
21020 Ispra - Italy
T.P. 262
Tel +39 0332 786166
Fax +39 0332 789803
alessandro.annoni@jrc.it
www.jrc.it

EC-DG JRC

Being part of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, the Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) provides scientific and technical support to EU policies for the protection of the environment contributing to a sustainable development in Europe. Among other tasks, the IES is responsible to define new methods to promote harmonized collection, handling, assessment and dissemination of spatial data, to set-up a European Spatial Data Infrastructure and to provide support to national civil protection activities, in particular for weather driven natural hazards. This justifies the high interest of the JRC in the SAFIR results. The foreseen new technologies and new services could significantly modernize civil protection practices, improve the coordination in cross border areas (through common multi-lingual platforms) and increase citizens' security within the enlarged European Union.

Paul-Adrien Slegers
Managing Director
Avenue d'Andrimont 62
1180 Brussels
Belgium
Tel.:+32 2 349 03 21
Fax: +32 2 345 30 48
info@jpass.net
http://www.jpass.net/

JPASS International

Mrs. Iliana Philipova
Executive Director
24 Hristo Botev Str., 3000 Vratsa, Bulgaria
+359 92 660273, 660271
+359 92 626308
philipova@bitex.com, cci-vr@bitex.com
http://cci-eic-vratsa.bitex.com

Chamber of Commerce and Industry Vratsa

The CCI Vratsa will be involved in developing a questionnaire regarding the Bulgarian perception on the e-government/e-work/e-business concept in the country and particularly in Vratsa region. It has to make a synthesis of the needs/opportunities evaluation in the above-mentioned fields of activities. Being an organization with a large number of members the Chamber will organize events (such as meetings, seminars, conferences, etc) to promote the new conception of exchanges and work and its quick adaptation. As a project partner who is a part of a number of Europe-wide networks it will also have a specific role in the project dissemination to federate other chamber of commerce support in whole Europe.

Address: 49 "Vladajska"str., Sofia 1606, BULGARIA
Phone: +359 2 9887095
Fax: +359 2 9887095
Website: www.nbt-ad.com
Name of the contact person: Svetoslav Sotirov
Emails: sotirov_s@nbt-ad.com; mail@nbt-ad.com; MinchevP@nbt-ad.com

New Bulgarian Technology AD

NBT AD will participate in organization and coordination of the pilot partners selection process. We will perform technical and applicability research and describe the existing user applications, extract and specify the concrete needs, analyze with a view of pertinence, perform preliminary assessment of efficiency and benefits. We will also analyze the available and needed information, specify the data to be constantly updated and define the means, rules and procedures for this purpose.

VDA

Elena Stoylova
Head Department "Regional development, planning and European Integration"
Vratsa District Administration-Bulgaria
+35992661427
obl-vr@m-real.net
http://oblast.vratsa.bg/

Vratsa District Administration

Vratsa District Administration - provides local authorities with the necessary information concerning any ongoing and pending projects for which they are eligible to apply, such as: funded by Social Investment Fund, National Employment Programs, Delegation of the European Commission, PHARE Cross - Border Cooperation and other pre-accession funds. Provides possibilities to implement new models, services, information sources and results from different projects. Realize the international contacts on regional level.

Marc Vuylsteke
Tel 02.529.58.10
mve@ulearn2b.com
Ulearn2B.com
EEBIC Building
Avenue J Wybranlaan 40
B-1070 Brussels - Belgium

Ulearn2B

Ulearn2B offers a global service that includes the design, development, and implementation of modular solutions for competence based learning using specially designed technological training methods.
Ulearn2B combines top quality pedagogical design, with advanced technology integration and management systems.

Authorised representative persons:
Hervé FEUILLIEN, Directeur Général - hfeuillien@cirb.irisnet.be

Robert HERZEELE, Directeur Général Adjoint rherzeele@cirb.irisnet.be
Project Coordinator: Sorin CIOCEA, Directeur du Département Télématique - sciocea@cirb.irisnet.be

Web : http://www.cirb.irisnet.be
Phone : 02/282 47 70
Fax : 02/230 31 07

CIRB

The contribution of the CIRB will be to put his technical expertise in Telematics Developpement and GIS into the Safir Project. Indeed, the CIRB owns UrbIS, which is the GIS database of the Brussels Region. The interest of the CIRB in the Safir project is to have new ways of completing the UrbIS towards voice interface to facilitate its use by the publics agents.

Arjan van Hessen,
Researcher Speech & Language Technology
Drienerlolaan 5
7522 NB Enschede
the Netherlands
+31 (0) 621 888 146
a.j.vanhessen@ewi.utwente.nl
www.cs.utwente.nl\~hessen

University Twente

The University Twente is working already for a couple of years in the field of speech enabled man-machine communication, spoken dialogues and spoken document retrieval. The specific role of the university in the Safir project is consultancy, input of its academic knowledge about speech, language and dialogue technology and its academic network. The university will try to lower the gap between industry and academia in the field of speech-enabled services.

Elsa DELACROIX
Press Relations Manager
160, bd de Valmy - BP 82
92704 COLOMBES Cedex - FRANCE
Tél : +33 (0)141303582
Fax : +33 (0)141304186
elsa.delacroix@fr.thalesgroup.com
www.thalesgroup.com

Thales

SAFIR will allow to integrate in systems of information and communication that we develop for the forces of civil safety the vocal command. This innovation will offer to the users, as the fire brigades for example, an ergonomic and friendly access to the information which they need, so improving their efficiency in their mission.

Mr. Richard Fausten
BASF IT Services GmbH, EB-ME - Q920, 67059 Ludwigshafen, Germany
Phone: +49 621 60-91412
Fax: +49 621 60-78817
Richard.Fausten@basf-it-services.com
http://www.basf-it-services.com

BASF IT Services

BASF IT Services, a BASF Group company, is among the leading IT service providers for the process industry in Europe. The company employs some 2,400 employees and recorded an annual turnover of €405 million in 2007. The company’s key strengths are Business Solutions, Managed Services and Business Process Outsourcing. This expertise is based on years of experience in providing solutions to the world’s leading chemical company, BASF. Today, BASF IT Services operates one of the world’s largest networks and approx. 3,600 servers for some 60,000 users in more than 280 locations. The globally active company is committed to standardising and developing customer-orientated, solutions. BASF IT Services is certified under the international quality management standard ISO 9001:2000 and the international standard for information security ISO 27001:2005.

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