Winter update

Somen Bannerjee and the Members of the EKTG Main Board send you all Greetings for a Happy End to the Year. Some of you will be spending time following your special beliefs and religions from the nations you are from.

Yesterday some of us met a wonderful family group who told us they lived in London but originally were from Lithuania. The young children where all jumping up and down with excitement as they told us they were next going to see Father Christmas. Each child has a small card to present to Father Christmas as they knew he would be arranging either for himself or one of his elves to drop down the chimney on Christmas morning with their favourite present they had wanted for months.

Clearly the children were well rehearsed in their preparation for the man with the large white beard and the smart red jacket.

Whatever the End of Year Festivals means for you, EKTG can hope that there is a good collaboration that after all is the whole purpose of EKTG.

Later in the last EKTG Newsletter of 2025 you will find many important sections of Information. One near the beginning is a notice from our International Ambassadors who have agreed to organise two and maybe more seminars in 2026. We do hope that you will join these seminars and maybe suggest topics and speakers. We do hope that you will want to collaborate with these very important on-line seminars.
The first will be about barriers to technology. This will be held on a Tuesday, February 24th at 4PM. The second one will be about statelessness on March 24th at 4pm.

There has been considerable debate about the increasing numbers of people who are not accepted any nation and are constantly having to prove who they are. There are discussions about a third seminar in April, but more information about all of these will be circulated to you all again in 2026.

The EKTG Main Board and all our component parts do send you all Good Wishes for a Happy and Peaceful New Year.
For many nations peace is not an experience they are familiar with. War and destruction are far more familiar.

We do very much look forward to any news and views you have. Please tell us your ideas and views soon.

EKTG was established by the Main Funding Body in Brussels in 2010 to help lead the use of technology forward. This has proved a much harder task than anybody imagined.
PLEASE do collaborate with us or this will never happen.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Autumn update

The EKTG Main Board and other parts of the Organisation have been busy working on your behalf.

We are also delighted to welcome our new International Ambassador from Holland, Tim van Rees, based in Amsterdam.

International Ambassadors play an important part in our work and are especially able to tell us about activity in their country. There are whole areas of the world where we do not have an International Ambassador. This is particularly in the Far East and the Southern Nations. Why not tell us of some suitable people in those parts of the world. Maybe volunteer yourself?

Currently the International Ambassadors are being asked to help us with new work.
There is a plan to revise an event at the Japanese Embassy in London. We have asked Professor David Cope, from Cambridge University to take an active part with this. David Cope has earlier connections with Japan and is the holder of a Special High Honour, the Order of the Rising Sun. More will be shared with you about this planned event.

The International Ambassadors are also being asked about the possibility of further EKTG events, further EKTG Webinars, further EKTG Courses. Your views about all these things are very welcome. We are planning an International Ambassadors Meeting in mid October so do let us have your views.

Somen Bannerjee, Chairman of the EKTG Main Board

Important announcement

Somen Banerjee and members of the EKTG Main Board are pleased that, following considerable pressure from our readers, the EKTG website is now once again called EKTG.net

In our last notice we told you we are currently planning our Spring Newsletter and we would welcome your contribution to this newsletter. You may want to tell everybody about some service or development in your service or your organisation.
You may want to inform readers about some new equipment. What ever your interest or views, we want to hear about them.

Please send your contributions by March 20th, 2025 to: ektgwebmaster@gmail.com

There has been considerable activity internationally about technology. Sadly little of this is based on that excellent work done in Estonia every day, as was referred to in the EKTG December Newsletter by "Raguraman PADMANABHAN, (EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST)" <raguraman.padmanabhan@nhs.net>
We are asking a couple of our experts from Estonia to contribute other short papers based on their experience.

The EKTG Main Board Members have been considering the many tasks they are responsible for during the year.
We will have an item about the tasks list in the EKTG Spring Newsletter.

What will you contribute to the Spring Newsletter?

About EKTG

The first meeting of European Knowledge Tree Group (EKTG) took place in Denmark in September 2010, followed up by a Symposium at the London School of Economics (LSE) later that year.

The European Knowledge Tree Group mission is for the advancement of health and saving of lives through the advancement of the use of eTechnology worldwide. EKTG does this by making educational and training opportunities available for the development of individual capabilities, competences, skills and understanding of the use of information technology in the field of eTechnology.

These opportunities will be made available to professional practitioners in health, social care and wider sectors. EKTG defines eTechnology literacy as “the ability to seek, find, understand and appraise from digital sources and apply the knowledge gained’.

The EKTG also seeks to cooperate with like-minded organisations in order to source funding to achieve its aims.

The EKTG and its International Ambassadors work towards the better use of technology.

Download a copy of our History

On 19 February 2020 we became registered as a Charity, number 1188061.

If you would like to participate in the EKTG’s activities, you can become a supporter and/or a contributor by:

supporting the collection of data and information on eTechnology and eHealth pilot projects
contributing to submissions related to eTechnology and eHealth on national and European level
promoting innovation and practical solutions in eTechnology and eHealth
helping to interlink universities, research institutes, companies, patient and senior citizen organisations to discuss and test eTechnology and eHealth solutions
attending EKTG events
sponsoring/raising funds for enable EKTG activities