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E-Awareness seminar for Asian Parliamentarians

The first of the e-Awareness seminar series for Asian Parliamentarians (e-ASSAP) will be held at the Colombo Plaza on July 21st and 22nd. About forty parliamentarians from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka will attend the seminar.

This e-awareness seminar series of parliamentarians is planned to assist countries to succeed in their respective Information & Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) and aims at sensitizing Asian parliamentarians and senior-decision makers managing Parliamentary Affairs to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as powerful tools of development. In today's world where ICTs are making considerable impact on political, economic and social structures, it is increasingly important that elected representatives take on an imperative role in the management of change within their communities specially where ICT is used for development.

Among the topics that are being discussed are ICT and society which focuses on technology evolution and its impact on society; issues and challenges in ICT induction such as change management, technology, process re-engineering; knowledge gap issues; social, employment and income generation issues; ICT policy framework development; which includes infrastructure, content, security, legal issues; citizen service and business issues; and the role of Parliamentarians in ICT for development, highlighting vision and leadership for policy evolution, the role of leaders as agents of change, and the use of ICT for local area development. Case studies representing "best practice" from various countries in the region are also being presented.

This seminar is being organised by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (APDIP) in collaboration with Sarvodaya and Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) with funding from the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC).

The inaugural ceremony is being held on July 31st and Milinda Moragoda, Minister of Economic Reforms, Science and Technology will deliver the keynote address. Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Michael Perera, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Leader of the Opposition and Miguel Bermeo-Estrella, Resident Representative of the UNDP will participate.

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