Fifth Caribbean Ministerial Consultation on

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• Fifth Caribbean Ministerial Consultation on
  Regional Cooperation for e.Government Capacity
  Building
• UNDESA/CARICAD/Gov. of ITALY
• Porters, St James,
• BARBADOS
• 17-18 June 2004

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• E.GOVERNMENT
• Multi-stakeholder partnership
• and
• participative democracy
• a view from civil society

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Daniel Pimientapimienta_at_funredes.orgNETWORKS
DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATIONFUNREDEShttp//funredes
.org
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What is common beetween
e.Learning e.Health and
e.Government?
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Paradigm (change)
Participation (proactive)
Process (democratic)
ICT is just a tool but ICT is the
enabler/catalyst of a deep paradigm change
(which is required anyhow)
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P. Education
- Evolution of teachers role facilitators of a
learning-practice process
- New relationship/process between education
stakeholders network, group practices
- New relation with space and time
asynchronous, life long learning, distance
education, pervasive education

• New economical equation (in the long range only!)
  leading to democratization

• Centered in people and communities (not in
  education)

• Sharing/building knowledge capacity rather that
  top-down filing information

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P. Education Challenges

• Fluent ICT players

- Process oriented evaluation
- Global vs. Local balance (culture is important!)
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P.Health
- Evolution of roles for health players teams
- New relationship/process between health
stakeholders
- New relation with space and time asynchronous
follow-up, life long health, pervasive health care
- New economical cost (in the long range only)
democratization
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P. Health Challenges

• Fluent ICT players

- Global vs. Local balance (culture is important
again!)
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So, where is the P in e.gov and where are the
challenges?
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P.Gov
- new roles for politicians facilitators of
social dialog
- new relationship between stakeholders
participative democracy
- new relation with space and time active
transparency, accountability, e.votatation,
- new economical cost for the administrative
processes
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P. Gov Challenges

• Fluent ICT players

• Implication of citizen from the design process

• Articulation with Local Governments
  decentralization

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The key word in this new Paradigm is
Participation
Who shall participate?
Multi stakeholder a must!
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VAMOS A BILBAO!!!!! ? "IT4ALL Opportunities
Challenges for Regions in Information
Society http//www.bilbaoit4all.com http//www.it4
all-regions.org/
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Approche multisectorielle (Multi stakeholder)
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P.TRUC
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LA SOCIÉTÉ CIVILE A BEAUCOUP A APPORTER Á SE
NOUVEAU JEU Les défis principaux du e.Gov sont

• La participation active de la société civile
  depuis le design jusquà la réalisation

• Larticulation du e.gov avec la décentralisation
• (Quen est-il du e.govlocal?)

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Comment les partenaires concernés participent-ils?
LE MOT CLEF EST PROCESSUS DEMOCRATIQUE
Nous sommes içi dans une zone qui requiert de
linnovation.
Ou peut-on trouver des expériences et des
approches?
Communautés virtuelles!
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Leçons sur les processus
democratiques Tirées des expériences
de Funredes Mistica
http//funredes.org/mistica (ICT4D LAC Virtual
Community)
http//wsis.funredes.org (e.dominicana
methodology)
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Conclusion
e.gov ? p.gov
P
aradigme (changement)
Articipation (multistakeholder)
rocessus (democratique)
E est seulement un catalyseur/enabler de P mais
léducation E/P est un besoin urgent!