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RBEC Regional Support Centre
COVERAGE:
Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (RBEC) –
27 Countries
OBJECTIVES:
- Overriding mission:
Meeting in the RBEC region the internationally agreed Millennium Development
Goal No. 8 ‘Develop a Global partnership for Development’,with
focus on Target
12 “Commitment to good governance” and especially Target 18
“In cooperation
with private sector to make available the benefits of new Information
and
Communications Technologies”.
- Development objective:
Utilize a leapfrogging potential of ICTs for social and economic transformation
(understood as e-governance and e-democracy) in order to build on this
basis
modern information- and knowledge-based societies in Europe and the
Commonwealth of Independent States.
PRIORITIES:
Dimensions:
- Access – Meeting the universal service obligation through integration
of equal and affordable public access to ICTs into community development
activities, with special focus on underserved remote areas and disadvantage
vulnerable population groups for poverty eradication and social cohesion.
- Content – Increasing the role of the Web-based content to improve
networking, advocacy, partnership building and outreach through effective
content management and promotion of new ICT-based public service; mainstreaming
ICT into other thematic areas, especially into gender- and environment-related
activities.
- Policy – Formulating effective common regional e-strategies through
policy advice and counseling; strengthening democratic processes through
opportunities offered by e-governance for greater transparency, participation,
empowerment of citizens and accountability of the government.
- Capacity – Enhancing the region’s vast human resource capacities
through egovernance training, research and networking (at e-Governance
Academy in Estonia).
- Partnerships – Promoting public-private partnership (PPP) alliances
to expand ICT infrastructure networks and get access to relevant training
opportunities through building PPP alliances, formulating strategies,
defining roles and developing models.
- Regional cooperation – Expanding regional cooperation, especially
East-East, as an important development objective at all levels, including
central government bodies, communities and border areas.
TOOLS:
- Training of public sector policy makers and their civil society and
private sector counterparts in e-governance
- Public awareness, research, and publications
- Policy development at national and regional levels, including common
supranational (regional/sub-regional) e-strategies and common guidelines
- Capacity building of policy makers and relevant regional/sub-regional
bodies
- Inter-country and inter-regional exchange of experience and best practice
- Networking workshops, conferences, expert group meetings
ADDRESS:
Regional Support Centre
Grosslingova 35
811 09, Bratislava
Slovakia
Tel: +421-2 59337-196
Fax:+421-2-59337-450
http://www.undp.org/rbec
http://www.undp.sk
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