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Thematic Workshop
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Expert Group Meeting on e-Government and New Technologies:
Towards better citizen engagement for Development
Organised by UNDESA and ITU
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Thursday 13 May 2010,
09:00-17:00
Room K
Friday 14 May 2010
09:00-13:00
Room K
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Description
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This Expert Group Meeting on
“e-Government and New Technologies: Towards better citizen
engagement for Development is co-organised by United Nations
Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) and
International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The Meeting
will focus on the transfer and exchange of ideas from
multi-stakeholders to further discussions on citizen
engagement applications as they pertain to governments, as
well as address issues of knowledge management and
capacity-building within the ambit of e-government. The
Meeting is expected to identify the major issues and trends
in citizen engagement and information services within
e-government programs with the goal of improving effective
and efficient public service delivery. The meeting will
explore ways of utilizing the latest in social networks, web
2.0 technologies and mobile applications by reviewing
existing approaches worldwide and analyzing the structural
and process changes associated with current e-government
development. The experts will present papers on the themes
outlined above, as well as participate in the discussions at
the Meeting. For more details, please
refer to the following documents:
Aide-Mémoire |
Programme |
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Programme
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Day 1
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09:00-10:00
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PLENARY SESSION
The Macro View of E-Government: The Why & How for
good governance through citizen engagement.
Chairman: Dr. Yury Grin,
Deputy Director, ITU Telecommunication Development
Bureau
Keynote speaker: Mr. Sami
Al Basheer Al Morshid, Director of the
Telecommunication Development Bureau of the
International Telecommunication Union
Moderator: Dr. Alan
R. Shark, Executive Director, Public Technology
Institute
Panelists:
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Mr. Ivo Ivanovski,
Minister of Information Society (Former Republic
of Macedonia)
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Dr. Hoda Baraka,
First Deputy to the Minister, Ministry of
Communication and Information Technologies (MCIT)
(Egypt)
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Prof. Dr. Tino
Schuppan, Founder and Chief Executive Officer,
IfG CC-The Potsdam eGovernment Competence Center
(Germany)
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Mr. Yury
Yaroshevich, Senior Expert, Policy Analysis
Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
(Belarus)
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10:00-10:30 |
COFFEE BREAK
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10:30-12:30 |
SESSION One – New
technologies & citizen engagement: Practices and impacts from
country cases
Moderator: Slava
Cherkasov , DPADM/DESA
Panelists:
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Mr. Jovan Kurbalija,
Founding Director, DiploFoundation – “Can Web
2.0 facilitate Global Governance 2.0?”
(Switzerland)
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Dr. K. Jayakumar, Joint
Secretary (Admin), Council of Scientific and
Industrial Research, Ministry of Science and
Technology – “Building Institutional Capacities
for a purposive transformative change to support
e-governance initiatives” (India)
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Ms. Viola Krebs, Director,
ICVolunteers - "Citizen engagement through
cybervolunteerism: the example of E.TIC.net in
Senegal and Mali" (Switzerland)
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Mr. Wojciech Cellary,
Professor, Poznan University of Economics,
Department of Information Technology –
“Non-technical aspects of citizens engagement in
e-government” (Poland)
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Open discussion
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12:30-14:00 |
LUNCH BREAK
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14:00-15:30 |
SESSION Two - New technologies
& citizen engagement: Government strategies,
perspectives and capacities for change
Moderator: Hani
Eskandar, ITU
Panelists:
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Mr. Ionut
Negrescu, Director, European Affairs and
International Relations Directorate, Ministry of
Communications and Information Society - "New
eRomania Strategy and Citizen Engagement"
(Romania)
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Ms. Maria Isabel
Mejia-Jaramillo, General Manager on the Agenda
for Connectivity and e-Government Strategy,
Ministry of Information Technology and
Communications - "Best practices and lessons
learnt developing and implementing a successful
Government Online National Strategy” (Colombia)
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Mr. Tomasz
Janowski, Head, UNU-IIST Center for Electronic
Governance - "EGOV.* - An Action Framework for
Governance 2.0” (UNU/China)
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Ms. Prachi
Sharma, CEO, Samin Tekmindz - "Existing citizen
engagement trends within e-government” (India)
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Open discussion
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15:30-17:00 |
SESSION Three – New
technologies & citizen engagement: Perspectives of
non government stakeholders
Moderator: Slava
Cherkasov , DPADM/DESA
Panelists:
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Mr. Michael Szafraniec,
Operations Manager, Illawarra Community
Services, Inc., Dapto Neighbourhood Centre –
“Engagement in the Information Age” (Australia)
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Mr. Michel Chevallier,
Chancellerie d’Etat – “Citizen engagement and
compliance with the legal, technical and
operational measures in iVoting” (Switzerland)
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Mr. Jonathan Paris,
Political Analyst and Senior Advisor to Sheikh
MBI al Jaber – “A Private Sector Perspective on
Empowering Citizen Stakeholders” (United
Kingdom)
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Mr. Emdad Khan, PhD,
InternetSpeech – “Effective Citizen Engagement
for Economic and Social Development Using Voice
Internet: Fastest & Practical Ways to Bridge
Digital & Language Divides” (USA)
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Open discussion
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Day 22 |
09:00-11:00 |
SESSION Four - New technologies
& citizen engagement: Strategies and capacity
building for knowledge management
Moderator: Hani Eskandar,
ITU
Panelists:
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Mr. James Griffin, Senior
Researcher, IfG.CC-The Potsdam eGovernment
Competence Center - “E-Government Competencies:
Looking beyond Technology” (Germany)
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Dr. Rowena G. Bethel, Legal
Advisor, Ministry of Finance - “New technologies
& citizen engagement: Strategies and capacity
building for knowledge management: e-Democracy”
(Bahamas)
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Paul Crookall, Management
Consultant and Editor Emeritus, Canadian
Government Executive Magazine – “Tools and
Trust: building a citizen engagement savvy
public service (Canada)
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Mr. Endrit Kromidha, PhD
Researcher, Royal Holloway, University of London
– “E-Government frameworks and opportunities
toward better stakeholders’ engagement”
(Romania)
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Open discussion
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11:00-11:300 |
COFFEE BREAK
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11:30-13:00 |
SESSION Five - Creating an
Action Agenda for better citizen engagement through
ICT for development
Moderator: Dr. Alan
R. Shark
Panelists:
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Mr. Rajkumar Prasad, CEO,
Commonwealth Centre for e-Governance –
“E-Government & KM – New Technologies and Trend”
(India)
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Mr. Muoka Reuben, Head,
Media and Public Relations, Nigerian
Communications Commission – “Creating and Action
Agenda for better citizen engagement through ICT
for development” (Nigeria)
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Open discussion
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