Egm report e-Government and New Technologies: Towards Better Citizen

Moderator: Vyacheslav Cherkasov, DPADM/DESA 

Panelists:  

•  Mr. Michael Szafraniec, Operations Manager, Illawarra Community 

Services, Inc., DaptoNeighborhood Centre,  “Engagement in the 

Information Age” (Australia)  

•  Mr. Michel Chevallier, Chancelleried’Etat, “Citizen engagement and 

compliance with the legal, technical and operational measures in iVoting” 

(Switzerland)  

•  Mr. Jonathan Paris, Political Analyst and Senior Advisor ofMBI 

Foundation, “A Private Sector Perspective on Empowering Citizen 

Stakeholders” (United Kingdom)  

•  Mr. Emdad Khan, PhD, InternetSpeech, “Effective Citizen Engagement for 

Economic and Social Development Using Voice Internet: Fastest & 

Practical Ways to Bridge Digital & Language Divides” (United States)  

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position to be able to develop, influence and implement international action agenda. The NGO 

sector is crucial to development of citizen engagement and the use of ICT to enable e-

governance. There is an important role that NGO actors have to develop engagement and e-

governance resources and training to build government expertise and citizen capacity.