Asia-Pacific Public Services Summit Publishes Summary Notes

The Summary Notes of the Asia-Pacific 2004 Public Services Summit: Connectivity and Competitiveness - New Models for e-Government in China, Asia-Pacific, and the World is now available online. The Summit was organised by UNDP-Asia Pacific Development Information Programme together with China's State Council Informatization Office (SCITO), Cisco Systems and UNDP China and held in Beijing on 15 - 16 July 2004. The Summary Notes provides a synthesis of the ideas, discussions and findings derived from the Summit. It provides a summary of the intellectual content that was generated (including summit presentations, and thematic papers), and summarizes participants' and experts' thoughts on the present state of, and the way forward for policymakers to design, plan, implement and evaluate their respective e-Government services and roles. [more]