Archives for May 27th, 2005

CONFERENCE TECHNOLOGY CAN ‘PUT FACE’ ON E-GOVERNMENT

Headlines, PublicNet: 27 May, 2005

Moves towards e-government do not provide enough opportunities for people to participate in the democratic process, according to a firm that specialises in electronic conferencing. Genesys Conferencing says although the turnout at the recent General Election was slightly up voter apathy is still a big issue.The company’s vice president, Nigel Dunn, said the issue needed to be addressed immediately through a simple extension of e-government. The 2005 targets for e-government, which aim to provide better and more cost-effective access to information and services, failed to provide opportunities for public to participation.

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FIRST STEPS TO NATIONAL SPATIAL ADDRESS INFRASTRUCTURE

Headlines, PublicNet: 27 May, 2005

Plans have been unveiled for a new national spatial address infrastructure, which will build on work already carried out by Ordnance Survey, local councils and other organisations to provide a single national database that will be maintained through a framework of address and property identifiers. The plans have been announced by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Ordnance Survey and the Improvement and Development Agency for local government.The system will take forward what has been achieved so far by Local Government, OS, the National Land and Property Gazetteer and Royal Mail. A joint prospectus is available on the ODPM website, setting out the details of the proposal and asking for comments from interested parties.

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Volunteering In Retirement

Features, PublicNet: 27 May, 2005

By Justin Davis Smith and Pat Gay Volunteering benefits society in terms of the delivery of essential services and the combating of social exclusion. The authors looked at the motivation for retired people to volunteer and what might be done to promote a greater willingness to volunteer by this expanding group. They challenge organisations to broaden their base of recruitment to include those groups of older people currently under-represented as volunteers. They also challenge government and other policy-makers to rethink both pre- and post-retirement education and the whole lifelong learning debate.

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