7 - 9 July 2008, Lotte Hotel Seoul, SEOUL, KOREA
SEOUL, South Korea, July 1 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- From 7 to 9 July 2008,
World e-Government Mayors Forum will take place in Seoul with the
participation of mayors and governors from some 40 cities across the globe.
Along with the heads of the cities, CIOs and IT experts of cities from every
continent, including Amsterdam, Ankara, Barcelona, Beijing, Berlin, Bonn,
Helsinki, Jakarta, Manila, Nairobi, Perth, San Francisco and Sao Paulo, will
get together in Seoul to discuss future perspectives of e-governments and ways
to boost further collaboration between the cities.
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Hosted by Seoul and co-sponsored by UNDESA and UNGC, the Mayors Forum will
be held under the theme World e-Government-its present and future, building up
a model of e-government cooperation, aiming to provide a platform to share
outstanding models of each e-government practice, promote exchanges and
cooperation between the cities, and present fresh vision for future e-
governments.
Presided by the Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon, Welcoming Dinner on 7 July will be
the first official event of the Forum, while Mayors Roundtable on the
following day will highlight the entire forum by serving as a discussion
ground for the mayors and other representatives. Besides, Dr. Nicholas
Negroponte, who is well-known for his roles as a chairman of One Laptop Per
Child (OLPC) Association and a founder of MIT Media Lab, will deliver a
keynote remark. Another keynote speaker during Opening Ceremony is Mr. Guido
Bertucci who is a director of Division for Public Administration and
Development Management (DPADM) of UNDESA.
Above all, the mayor of Seoul and other leaders of participating cities
will jointly proclaim Seoul IT Declaration, whose main points are to come up
with practical ways to reinforce e-government collaboration. In addition,
participating cities will discuss an issue of forming a cooperation body
between e-governments.
Within the framework of the cooperation body, prospective member cities
will launch and carry out wide-ranged yet specific on- and off-line joint
projects, including projects on sharing outstanding models of e-governments,
narrowing the digital-divide, enhancing administrative productivity and
transparency by utilising IT, and formulating and disseminating strategies on
eco-friendly IT or Green-IT.
For further information, visit the official website of World e-Government
Mayors Forum at http://wegmf.seoul.go.kr .
Contact:
Ms. Jeeyoung, Kim
Tel: +82-2-6361-3116
Email: jeeyoung@seoul.go.kr
SOURCE Seoul Metropolitan Government
Ms. JeeYoung, Kim, +82-2-6361-3116, or jeeyoung@seoul.go.kr
