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

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

Daniel Pimienta NETWORKS & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION FUNREDES

What is common beetween : e.Learning e.Health and e.Government?

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)

P. Education - Evolution of teacher’s 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

P. Education Challenges - Fluent ICT players - Global vs. Local balance (culture is important!) - Process oriented evaluation

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

P. Health Challenges - Fluent ICT players - Global vs. Local balance (culture is important again!)

So, where is the “P” in e.gov and where are the challenges?

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

P. Gov Challenges - Fluent ICT players -Implication of citizen from the design process -Articulation with Local Governments: decentralization

The key word in this new Paradigm is Participation Who shall participate? Multi stakeholder a must!

VAMOS A BILBAO!!!!! "IT4ALL Opportunities & Challenges for Regions in Information Society

C’EST UN NOUVEAU “JEU”, COMPLEXE MAIS NECESSAIRE POUR TOUS LES “E.TRUC” CAR IL FAIT PARTIE DE “P.TRUC”… Approche multisectorielle (Multi stakeholder)

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 jusqu’à la réalisation  L’articulation du e.gov avec la décentralisation (Qu’en est-il du e.govlocal?)

Nous sommes içi dans une zone qui requiert de l’innovation. Comment les partenaires concernés participent-ils? LE MOT CLEF EST PROCESSUS DEMOCRATIQUE Ou peut-on trouver des expériences et des approches? Communautés virtuelles!

Leçons sur les processus democratiques Tirées des expériences de Funredes & Mistica (ICT4D LA&C Virtual Community) (e.dominicana methodology)

E est seulement un catalyseur/enabler de P … mais l’éducation E/P est un besoin urgent! Conclusion e.gov  p.gov aradigme (changement) Articipation (multistakeholder) rocessus (democratique)