Objet: e-democracy?, regions of Europe
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:40:24 +0200
De: Michael Macpherson <mjm@berlin.snafu.de>
A: ispo@www.ispo.cec.be

Dear colleagues and friends,

A very recent congress of the Assembly of the European Regions in
Etelä-Pohjanmaa (Ostrobothnia) http://www.epliitto.fi hosted a seminar
with
the following purpose "The main theme of the General Assembly will be
"The
new forms of European governance." The idea of the pre-assembly seminar
is
to look at the needs of developing regional-level administration because
of
the societal changes. The development of the information society will
cause
fundamental changes in industrial structures and spatial development.
New
communication technology will give possibilities to develop new types of
services like e-commerce and telemedicine. Wireless communication,
internet
etc. also give new possibilities to regional and local authorities to
develop their own working methods.

In the development of European level governance it is thus quite
essential
to take into account also the needs which arise from the current and
forthcoming societal development. The purpose of the seminar is to give
some new stimuli for the debate on the main theme of the assembly."

I was asked to give a lecture about "The possibilities of information
technology to improve and develop democracy and democratic processes".

The whole seminar at presently available via WWW as a video.

It's at the Assembly of the European Regions AER web site
http://www.are-regions-europe.org  which links you to
http://www.netpres.com/

THURSDAY 7th DECEMBER 2000
09.00-12.30 (watch the recorded video) LINK
Seminar organised by the Region of South Ostrobothnia

My lecture is in second part of the video. (You need a recent version of
RealPlayer - a free version is available.)

Watch out for Scottish e-government, presented by George Reid MSP
(vice-president of the parliament), and the queen of the United Kingdom
of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland, who follow my presentation ;-)

Sincerely,
Michael Macpherson

Citizens' Initiative I&R
http://iniref.tripod.com/index.html

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Berlin FRG
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