ICTD and e-Governance Community of Practice Meeting, Tallinn, Estonia, 4-8 December 2006
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This will be a continuation of regional events following the previous meetings held in Kuala Lumpur in 2002 and 2004, and in Baku and Kiev in 2003 and 2004 respectively. The Tallinn event will actually consists of two inter-related, back-to-back meetings. One will be held on 4-5 December and the other on 7-8 December 2006.
Event I (4-5 December 2006)
The first event is a training and brainstorming seminar entitled ‘Understanding the Information Society: Leveraging ICT for Better Governance and MDGs’. Its target audience is UNDP country office colleagues working in the area of governance, especially e-governance and ICT for Development (ICTD). Representatives of other interested organizations may join this meeting as well, which will be organized in the form of a series of lectures delivered by recognized specialists from academe, governments, ICT industry and civil society on key issues of Information Society and the digital and communication revolutions. Lectures will be supplemented by visits to local ICT-savvy Estonian organizations, to see how it all works in real life. The prime objective is to better understand the consequences of the emerging Information Society for the countries and UNDP development work by defining, and debating such issues as e-Government, e-Democracy, e-Business, and e-Networking.
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Event II (7-8 December 2006)
The second meeting is a more specialized e-government event entitled ‘Advancing ICT-enabled Public Sector Modernization and Reform: Identifying e-Government Solutions for Efficient Administration and Friendly Public Service’. In addition to UNDP programme staff from country offices and their counterparts from host governments, other partners from civil society and ICT/telecom industry will take part as well. The goal of this meeting is to learn and agree on how ICT can help change and re-engineer government business processes for public sector modernization and better service delivery at various administrative levels. Specifically, the meeting will explore the role of e-governance in advancing public administration reform through the application of Business Process Analysis and Re-engineering instruments, to improve efficiency at the back-office and increase transparency at the front-end. Special emphasis will be given to planning, designing an implementing related, Web-based, “One Stop Shops’ and Citizen portals.
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Related Links
Meetings' Background Note [PDF, 350kB]
APDIP's Activities and Resources on e-Governance and e-Government
Draft Project Proposal: Pro-poor e-Governance in South Asia - Enhancing basic service delivery for the MDGs [PDF, 1MB]
Capacity Building of Asia Pacific e-Government Initiatives
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