News & Events
| BROADBAND EVENTS | LOCATION | DATE |
| Workshops - Inclusion of People with Special Needs & eCommunities | Eindhoven, Netherlands | 20 May 2008 |
| eInclusion Workshop - eAging & Hard to reach groups | Ennis, Co.Clare, Ireland | 19 March 2008 |
| Second International Citizen First Conference | MidWest Ireland. | 25-26 September 2008 |
CitizenFirst Project
Final international conference 25-26 September 2008
Old Ground Hotel, Ennis Co.Clare, Irealnd.
CITIZEN FIRST
'using Technology to include ALL Citizens' This Conference is 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 is 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.
This should be of 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.