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To access links, see Steven Clift's blog: http://dowire.org/notes/?p=287 Post: Conf - World eGov Forum - Paris - 18-20 Oct 2006 Ooops, for those on the e-mail version I let through an announcement without editing it for the blog. Normally everything on the Newswire@ should come with my e-mail listed. The World eGov Forum combines the previous Worldwide e-Democracy Forum. Ironically, this year's agenda looks to have more e-politics than the previous conferences which had more content focused on e-government than e-democracy. I wonder if they will webcast parts of the conference? Anyone know? Cheers, Steven Clift http://dowire.org >From their site: World eGov Forum objectives: to accelerate and facilitate Good Practices The objectives of this world premiere is to accelerate and facilitate Good Practices exchanges both among represented administrations (as of today 42 countries are registered to the conference and the workshops) and citizens as main stakeholders in the actual democracy. The first edition of the World e-Gov Forum is the result of the merger of the European e-Administration Forum and the World e-Democracy Forum. This summit is in line with the WSIS (World Summit of Information Society) were the concept of � digital citizenship � has been launched for the first time ever. With the creation of the World e-Gov Forum, we are committed to disseminate this � digital citizenship � as we are convinced that it is the main tool that will contribute to eliminate the digital divide. We are convinced the fact that no citizens are left behind, and that access to the knowledge society will lead to a profound reengineering of Administrative processes and to citizen�s empowerment in politics. Our aim is to facilitate the move from the � closed � Information society to the � open � knowledge one. Our committments are : - Fighting the digital divide - Generate new citizen�s trust and confidence in their institutions - Stimulate e-Democracy - Promote innovation at all levels of the Public Sector - Highlight worldwide digital solidarity - Contribute to a transparent Internet governance. Last presidential elections in South Korea have been heavily impacted by Internet, to such a point that today�s president is seen as � The Internet elected one �. From our Guest of Honor, we�ll have a lot to learn from this recent experience. France and Europe will have elections very soon, what will happen with Citizen and Politics� blogs? The mid-term elections in the US will also be impacted by this new kind of "homo-democraticus?. The World e-Gov Forum is the place where we�ll learn exchange on these new phenomena. On the other hand, the question for Public Authorities is to know if they are ready to close the gap with digital citizenship and transversal services. These themes, among others, will be addressed in Issy-Les-Moulineaux from October 18 to 20th. This summit is based on 20 parallel sessions and 3 plenary ones, during which we�ll have the opportunity to listen to main leaders in e-Democracy and e-Government The World e-Gov Forum is committed to take into account news ideas and new approaches. We are the new think tank determined to enrich the work of International organizations such as OECD, e-Forum, UN, EU, UNESCO, the World Bank... This world wide event will be held on a yearly basis to express its ideas and recommendations and to reinforce its willingness to have � universal digital citizenship � becoming a reality. *** Democracies Online Newswire - http://DoWire.Org *** To comment/for links: http://dowire.org/notes/?p=287 To network: http://groups.dowire.org Submit posts: http://dowire.org/submit Member profile for Steven: http://groups.dowire.org/main/contacts/stevenclift ----------------------------------------- Group home for Newswire - Steven Clift's blog posts by e-mail: http://groups.dowire.org/main/groups/newswire Replies go to members of Newswire - Steven Clift's blog posts by e-mail with all posts on this topic here: http://groups.dowire.org/topic/136115 For digest version or to leave Newswire - Steven Clift's blog posts by e-mail, email [email protected] with "digest on" or "unsubscribe" in the *subject*. Newswire - Steven Clift's blog posts by e-mail is hosted by Democracies Online - http://dowire.org.
