This Report is an overview of a two day seminar in Brussels, February 12 and 13, 2004, on E-democracy organized by the eGov unit of the Information Society Directorate-General of the European Commission. The focus of the seminar was how good policies, effective legislation, wide citizen participation,cooperation between governments, legislative assemblies and outside groups,such as NGOs and the citizen at large, and information and communicationtechnologies can reinforce and strengthen democracy. This Report was prepared by Thomas B. Riley, who was a Rapporteur at the seminar. 

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