ELECTRONIC GOVERNANCE AND ELECTRONIC DEMOCRACY: LIVING AND WORKING IN THE CONNECTED WORLD

PREFACE

This paper was prepared under the auspices of the Commonwealth Secretariat, London, UK. Research and writing of this paper was also made possible with contributions from:

• Government Telecommunications and Informatics Services, Public Works and Government Services Canada
  
• Information and Technology Services, Fisheries and Oceans Canada,
  
• Office of Learning Technologies, Human Resources and Development Canada
  

Thanks are also extended to those who assisted in the research, writing and preparation of this document. These include Rogers W'O O'Kot-uma, Chief Programme Officer, Management and Training Division of the Commonwealth Secretariat, London for his approval to use his paper on E-Government and E-Governance; Professor Valerie Steeves, School of Law, Carleton University for her opinion piece on privacy, human rights and the emerging panoptic state; David Keeshan (dkeeshan@idirect.ca), Second Wind Consulting, for his excellent research and work, and Murray Long, Murray Long & Associates, (murraylong@HOME.com) Ottawa, Canada for his work on chapter three; and David Goldberg of DeeJGee consulting, (deegee_98@hotmail.com) Glasgow, Scotland, for his research for the chapter on data protection and privacy. Thanks are also extended to Dr. John Onunga, Chair, Information Technology Systems Association, Nairobi Kenya, for proving the summary of their September 2000 workshop in Nairobi and to Kate Norman, Company Secretary for her work on the Electronic Library Workshop, London, UK. April 2001.