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Digital systems for effective grievance redressal: The case of Lokvani

Short description: Lokvani (http://sitapur.nic.in/lokvani) is an e-governance initiative that attempts to reduce citizens' travel to government offices for accessing information, entitlement processing and grievance redressal.

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ICT-enabled decentralisation: The Ente Gramam and e-krishi projects of the Kerala State IT Mission

Short Description: Ente Gramam is a project of the Kerala State IT Mission under which community web portals, with contextually appropriate, locally generated content, have been developed in over 100 Gram Panchayats and 10…

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ICTs for Community Empowerment and Action by Youth

Context: Since independence it has been the hope and expectation that the country's youth shall show a spirit of community-orientation and volunteerism towards the difficult task of…

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Rajiv Gandhi Sewa Kendras as village information and knowledge centres enhancing transparency and accountability in governance (as part of NREGA scheme)

 

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Moving beyond capacity building mode to ICT-based resource support system for elected representatives

 

Context: Decentralisation has been…

IT for Change was asked to provide inputs in the area of e-governance and ICTD to UNDP as it was developing its plan for the programming period of 2013-18. Upon thorough study of the e-governance and ICTD scenario in India and interweaving of UNDP's general priorities and outlook with the same, IT for Change came out with a detailed document…

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The following is a list of 43 civil society organizations, 10 of them with ECOSOC status, and many more individuals, who supported the joint civil society input to the CSTD Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation, which can be seen here

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Urgente! Se necesita su apoyo para impulsar una visión progresista de la sociedad civil en el Grupo de Trabajo de la ONU que formulará recomendaciones para la democratización de la gobernanza global de…

 A civil society input to the UN Working Group looking at institutional mechanisms for global governance of the Internet

(Please write to itfc@itforchange.net before 12 noon GMT on 31st August if you will like to endorse this statement)

 

Response to the questionnaire issued by

CSTD Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation

 

The following is a joint submission by a group of 46 civil society organizations, 10 of them in consultative status with UN ECOSOC, and many more individuals.