Citizen First final international conference
The Old Ground Hotel, Ennis, Co. Clare 25-26 Sep 2008.
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Citizen First... using Technology to include ALL citizens
This Conference was aimed at public, local & voluntary stakeholders working on providing solutions to social exclusion in our communities by exploring the benefits of Information Communications Technologies.
The CitizenFirst activities to date have successfully concentrated on refocusing local and regional activities from organisation driven services to citizen centric services. The project has led to the successful implementation of services which focus and are deployed around the stated and diverse needs of citizens. However, despite the success of the current pilots the consortium acknowledges that some target groups are still at risk of further exclusion with the digitalisation of public services. 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.
The Conference was the final event of the CitizenFirst Project which has involved the collaboration between four North West Europe Regions of Mid-West-Ireland, Cambridgeshire-UK, Eindhoven-The Netherlands and West Flanders-Belgium.
It was of great interest to all regional or local authority officers and politicians involved in, or concerned with, social inclusion, e-inclusion, e-democracy, e-participation and people empowerment.