[Chapter-delegates] Announcement - Worldwide Forum on e-Democracy - Issy les Moulineaux, France September 28-29, 2005

[Philippe Batreau]

Dear Chapter Delegates,

Isoc France is one of the partners in 6th Worldwide Forum on e-Democracy on 28-29
September in Issy les Moulineaux, France.

For more details, please check the link below :

http://www.forum-edemo.org/?lang=en

Please help us inform your Chapter members and other people who may be interested in this
event.

More information about this event :

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Worldwide Forum on e-Democracy: >From e-government to e-Democracy, a new society?

Placed under the high patronage of the French President, Jacques Chirac, and on the
initiative of Andre Santini, Member of Parliament and Mayor of the city of
Issy-les-Moulineaux (Paris, France), the 6th Worldwide Forum on e-Democracy will have for
honor guest Brazil, country whose efforts in e-democracy and e-government have to be
underlined. 8 round tables and 5 plenary sessions will allow to talk about all the
subjects which contribute to the development of the Information Society and to measure the
impact of the Internet, the mobile phone or the electronic cards on the democratic and
administrative practices.

Several tens of international and French speakers will present their projects and the
programs that are already developed in their country. We will speak particularly on the
way that e-government is taking, becoming a priority for the majority of the countries,
and we will discuss its consequences on the improvement of the services brought to the
citizens : the electronic indentity cards, the fight against the digital divide, or the
defense of linguistic diversity on the networks...

During the Worldwide Forum on e-Democracy, we will also try to explain the moves which
take place in the relationship between media, citizens and political leaders, confronted
to the explosion of the blogs and of "citizen journalism". Those upheavals already
modified the political scene of South Korea and constitute an important challenge for the
democracies of the 21st century, democracies that have to exist with the growth of the
E-participation and the e-voting in the world.

Special guest of this meeting, Brazil, first country in Latin America on the development
of the Information Society, will give to the public the occasion to confront the
experiences on the two sides of the Atlantic on these subjects.

The Worldwide Forum became, in five years, a real crossroads of international exchanges on
the impact of ICTs on the democratic life. Whereas the ICT’s integrate more and more
largely the public sphere, the governments in France, in Europe and in the world, have
engaged for several years a reflexion on the use of these tools to renovate the democratic
practices and to transform the relations between public citizens and services.

Nearly 1.500 people, representing 39 nationalities, had come to attend the debates of the
5th Forum last September.
http://www.forum-edemo.org/?lang=en

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A member/chapter meeting will take place during this event on Wednesday September 28th.

Let us know if you will be here.

Best regards,

Cordialement,

Philippe Batreau
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