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of “base information system" to be used of
the whole society: public sector, business sector, citizens |
Rolf Ahlfors
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and the institutional network of the Catalan administration. |
Eduard Aibar / Ferran Urgell
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Free is Free Communication? Government Regulation in the
era of Wireless Communication: an international perspective |
Jonathan Aronson
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participation: The project of the Generalitat de Catalunya |
Joaquim Brugué
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Networked city: ubiquitous communication and urban space
under the new technological paradigm |
Federico Casalegno
Networked interactive technologies fundamentally
change the relationship between the urban environment,
the production/diffusion of information and the social
activities.
We first discuss some European project exploring the
new technological paradigm and, secondly, we discuss
the new paradigm focusing on the impact of mobile communication
technologies in cities and communities.
These aspects are crucial for governments in order to
play a significant role to improve democracy and increase
citizens involvement in the city government.
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from the business world |
Carles Casanovas
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in administration and the modernisation of democracy:
The promise of e-governance |
Manuel Castells
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the government and citizens: A virtuous circle
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Marta Continente
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table on e-governance in Catalonia |
Antoni Fernandez Teixidó
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autonomy and wireless communication: networks in Catalonia |
Oriol Ferran i Riera
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and the institutional network of the Catalan administration. |
Jane Fountain
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Ramón García-Bragado
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movements and local authorities networks: main actors
to foster a new governance at local and global level
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Véronique Kleck
The concept of e-democracy, or
electronic democracy, underlines the fascination that
our societies have for these new technologies and the
hope that technologies can solve all our problems. But
the capitalistic economical logic is nowadays dramatically
putting in danger our democracies at the local or global
level.
In this context, citizens’ networks and local authorities
play a fundamental role in the information revolution
and they assure that the use of new technologies will
be politically guided toward the reinforcement of the
democracy.
During our talk, we will discuss some French and European
active citizen’s networks as well as the role of
local authorities in the context of the world summit on
the information society.
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of Internet in Municipal Services and Citizen Participation
in a Broadband Country: Korea |
Dr. John H. Lee,
President Korea Information Strategy Development Institute
For the last 20 years, the Korean Government
has made efforts to usher the Korean society into an
era of a knowledge-based economy: expanding communications
infrastructure, building an e-government framework,
and promoting the Information Technology (IT) industry.
The rapid roll out of broadband services in Korea has
been achieved through a combination of three key factors:
strong Government initiatives, economic motivations,
and socio-cultural factors. According to the ITU, in
2003, Korea was ranked first and third in the world
in terms of high-speed Internet subscription rate per
100 people and proportion of internet users, respectively.
In Korea, the internet allows for improved
civil services via e-Government and balanced regional
development through e-local Government and contributes
to democracy taking root by promoting civil participation.
The creation of an e-Government was necessary for Korea
to adapt to a new emerging paradigm that will change
government practices and services in the 21st century.
Korea is now striving to complete e-Government initiatives
based upon the current information network which is
the most advanced one in the world. The e-Government
of Korea has three main objectives: to develop innovative
government-wide services; to create a market-based government
that supports private business; to build an effective,
transparent, and more democratic government. For realizing
these objectives, the Korean Government has set up 10
major agendas including Digitalized work process, Increased
civil participation in government affairs, and Reinforcing
information security systems, to list a few. These 10
agendas are comprehensive plans of actions for an e-Government
including 31 priority concrete projects, like e-voting,
e-election, and e-local Government. E-local Government
is necessary for promoting decentralization and public
participation. It contributes to improving the quality
of resident’s life, enhancing efficiency of administration
affairs, and supporting revitalization of the local
economy. The e-local Government Project consists of
9 major tasks, such as bridging the digital divide widened
by disproportionate information distribution and rapid
societal changes brought about by advances in technology
and communications; designating ‘Informatization
Model Village’ in every municipality; modernizing
communications equipment of local administrative information
network; and providing high-speed communications service.
Finally, citizen participation in
political and public affairs through the Internet has
become a social phenomenon in Korea. Challenging the
political old guard, Korean netizens are using the internet
to change political and public procedures and practices.
Several recent events in Korea demonstrate this power
of participation online. Netizens have showed the power
that online discussion forums can provide for the grass
roots.
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in administration and the modernisation of democracy:
The promise of e-governance |
Erkki Liikanen
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opening of the talks |
Ernest Maragall
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Democracy in America:
Civic entrepreneurs and activists using the Web as not
only as a tool set but also as an organizational model
to restructure political associations. |
Don Means
The recent history of national
political elections in the US is one that revolves around
mass media. Structurally, it resembles the advertising
industry, using all the modern tools of mass marketing.
For the professional political campaign this has mainly
consists of finding a candidate (product), raising money
from wealthy donors (investors); conducting polls (test
marketing), running ads (running ads).
In 2003/2004 the Internet has disrupted
this formula in much the same way it has altered modes
of commerce since around 1995. Ordinary citizens, like
their consumer alter egos, now have vastly greater access
to sources of comparative information and are increasingly
engaged in sharing their opinions widely and easily.
Though this had been predicted for over
ten years, it is only just now reaching a critical mass
of participants. What was not predicted was that people
would use Internet tools like Meetup.com to organize
locally for national activism.
These phenomena are the basis for a new
grass roots movement in the US that is challenging the
older methods of recruiting, organizing, fundraising,
and mobilizing for political objectives at all levels.
As with other activities in society, the Internet is
enabling a wide variety of decentralized, self-organizing,
rapidly changing political associations.
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Barcelona II model: Internet, intranets, local government
and citizens' information in the city of Barcelona |
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Esteve Ollé
Researcher from the
London School of Economics
The speech will present the general conclusions of the
empiric study focused on technological and organizational
transformation of Barcelona City Council, as well as
some general considerations about e-governance.
The empiric research, part of the Internet Catalunya
Project of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, analyzes
the interaction between technological innovations, organizational
change and public services transformation and the politic
processes in Barcelona City Council during more than
2 years.
Taking as first hypothesis the emergence of a possible
Barcelona II Model (parallel to Barcelona Model, an
internationally recognized example of urban politics
combination), inner transformations of Barcelona City
Council have been studied tied to the innovative use
of the Information and Communication Technologies (TIC),
and have been related to the social and politic changes
that interact with this project.
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table on e-governance in Catalonia |
Artur Serra
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table on e-governance in Catalonia |
Jordi Valls
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