July 05, 2008

Technology for All Citizens, Ennis - 25-26 September

The final event of the Interreg IIIb project Citizen First which has linked Mid-West Ireland (under the Mid-West Regional Authority as Leads) with partners in Cambridge, Eindhoven and West Flanders will take place in September. Citizen First’s activities to date have concentrated on refocusing local and regional activities from organisation-driven services towards citizen-centric services. The project has led to the successful implementation of services that focus and are deployed around the stated and diverse needs of citizens. However, some target groups remain at risk of further exclusion with the digitalisation of public services and in the last year, the project has been working closely with these target groups to further gain the participation of hard to reach, marginalized groups and people with special needs. While primarily aimed at local & voluntary stakeholders working on providing solutions to social exclusion by exploring the benefits of ICT, this event should also be of interest to all regional and local authority officers and politicians concerned with, social inclusion, e-inclusion, e-democracy, e-participation and people empowerment. http://www.citizen-first.net/

Posted by iroronan at July 5, 2008 07:17 PM