The agenda of the meeting -which is co-organized with the government of Colombia and the Inter-American Development Bank- will focus on discussing progress, lessons learned and challenges of the region in e-government, and will address critical issues such as cyber security, open data, investment return and the measurement of impact of e-government projects, and the use of social media by governments.
Read more: OAS Co-organizes Ministerial Meeting on E-Government in Cartagena, Colombia
Speaking at a conference on “Best Practices for Civil Registration” in Grenada, Ambassador Ramdin said OAS Member States should demonstrate political commitment to the initiative, which would not only ensure proper birth registration of all citizens, but also facilitate social and electoral inclusion.
Read more: OAS Assistant Secretary General Calls on Member States to Modernize Civil Registries
Thanks to this innovative tool, any government in the hemisphere will have access to a data base of solutions to e-government problems. In the same way, a government with a solution that can be adapted to other countries may place it in a data base and thus easily share with other countries in the region and the world its achievements in the area of electronic government.
Read more: OAS Launches eGobex, a Virtual Electronic Government Space for the Americas