The major challenge for modern government’s lies in making the most of citizens contribution to achieve a self-sustainable development both of mankind and natural resources. What is the key to success? Voting citizens acknowledge a noticeable trend followed by modern nations: the principle of subsidiarity. This states that matters ought to be handled by the smallest (or the lowest) competent authority. This principle forces political decision making into local and regional self government and democracy.

New business objectives

As the globalisation of world economy takes shape, local and regional governments are faced with challenging objectives, namely to keep unemployment levels from rising, to address environment problems, and to create equal opportunities for all in the modern infrastructures of an information society. Such complex problems require enormous amounts of resources to be successfully dealt with. The solution is to enhance collaboration with neighbouring governing structures, as to exploit the full extend of the network concept, both at local, regional and national level.

Education plays a crucial role in modern government priorities, and local and regional authorities are no exception. The key for many of the economic problems (unemployment by and large) lies in raising overall skills levels of the population.

How can we help?

groupVision's meeting facilitation services can assist with both regional and local decision makers in identifying the major strategic objectives and organisational values for this new millennium. In-house workshops can be conducted to forecast trends and find solutions within a joint problem solving methodology, while still involving relevant stakeholders.

Learn more about our consulting practice for more information on a different approach to public administration initiatives that require multiple parties' engagement.

SMART Solutions

SMART Board™ and SMART Technologies group productivity software can assist managers of different local structures to work together and coordinate larger projects, able to deal with current day challenges. Equally, the need to better communicate achievements is a critical task for local and regional governments, products like SMART Actalyst™ can become a noticeable element in a public digital signage infrastructure. Citizens can interact with the information displayed and navigate into the most relevant parts.

Finally, the sustainable development of education curricula and teaching methodologies needs to be accompanied by consistent investments in educational technology.

SMART Board™ interactive whiteboards can become a decisive tool in shaping up a regional education policy, where results are driven by new pedagogical methods and interactive materials. groupVision and SMART Technologies offer their combined expertise to municipalities and regional governments that face ITC investment decisions in Education. We would support research efforts and pilot studies so political decision making can be accomplished with the support of all relevant stakeholders, teachers, students and parents. 

Galicia has been one of the first regions in Spain to adopt the interactive whiteboard in education. It started with a first purchase of 600 units in 2007 and has now at least one interactive whiteboard in each of its schools.

groupVision assisted Red.es (Spain's national procurement agency for ITC) in the deployment of this technology in Galician schools, by offering certified training programs to the whole team of trainers in this region's education authority. Besides this, we supported the creation of an informal user group EDIGA (Encerado Dixital Interactivo Galicia) which was instrumental in establishing peer-to-peer support, training and professional development.

In collaboration with other local entities, this group is actively organizing conferences and seminars that help to establish the best practices in the use of interactive whiteboards in education.

Without any doubt this strategic investment in education in Galicia will reinforce one of this regions' key competitive advantage for foreign investment, a highly dedicated and skilled work force.    

Contact us for more detailed information or to attend our next business development workshop.