Researcher Svein Ølnes and professor Arild Jansen, University of Oslo, have written the paper "The nature of public e-services and their quality dimensions" published in Government Information Quarterly vol. 33, issue 4.

Emergency management has become a problem for authorities across the world because the frequency of disasters such as floods, landslides, earthquakes, and even riots have considerably have increased.

Norstella, a foundation for e-Business and trade procedures, arranged a conference on blockchain technology 26th of October. Researcher Svein Ølnes was invited to talk about the potential of Bitcoin and blockchain technology in public sector.

The book is written by professor Rajendra Akerkar from Vestlandsforsking and Dr Priti Srinivas Sajja from Sardar Patel University, India

Vestforsk conducted a questionnaire among people in Germany, France, UK, and USA about their booking habits and preferences.

New Book by Otto Andersen.
Energy technologies in the future must be based on renewable sources of energy and they must be sustainable. This book provides insight into unintended negative impacts and how they can be avoided.

Vestforsk arranges the fifth seminar on ISO 15926 and Semantic Technologies in Sogndal these days. Invited researchers and practitioners in the field meet to present and discuss different issues under this year's topic Big Data. ISO 15926 is an ISO standard for semantic information modelling in oil and gas.

Title: Assistance to life-cycle assessment of ethanol-blended gasoline

Title:
In silico toxicological assessment of ethanol-blended gasoline exhaust

Styret for regionalt Forskingsfond på vestlandet har tildelt Vestlandsforsking kr. 200 000 til et forprosjekt for å se på hvordan klimaendringer og klimapolitikk kan påvirke vestlandsjordbruket.

Vestlandsforsking is 25 years and we are celebrating this by offering a series of seminars on semantic technologies. The series starts Thursday 11th of Nov and will continue until June 2011. All seminars will be streamed and the video will also be available for download afterwards. More information about the dates for the seminars in 2011 will follow later. The topics to be presented in 2011 are also subject to changes.
We would like to thank Difi, the Resource network for e-Government (Verdikt) and ABM Utvikling for sponsoring this series. The seminars will be held in English.

Clim-ATIC invited to its international project conference in Florø, Norway, 26-27 October 2010. It was streamed live here at wnri.no.

Food is an integral part of tourism, but there is seldom a focus on
how food can affect the sustainability of the tourism sector.

The conference” ISO 15926 and Semantic Technologies” took place in Sogndal September 9. – 10.

In the weeks to come, we will publish podcasts on local adaptation to climate change.

Vestlandsforsking participated recently at the Nano2010 conference in Clemson, USA, where a large number of participants contributed with presentations of their work on nanoparticles in the environment.

The County Governor could generally do more to follow up and ensure that preventive work is carried out in the wake of extreme weather events, as shown by a study of the Norwegian County Governors' departments of civil protection and emergency planning.