Published Fri, 10/17/2008 - 15:48.
At the end of August, during meetings with the Ministry of ICT and the Swedish Embassy in Kampala, Uganda, it was agreed that SPIDER would host a delegation from the Ugandan Parliament and Ministry of ICT to visit Sweden. The purpose would be to study the potential of a well-developed eSociety, such as Sweden, where the country virtually stops if the internet were to go down. Not only does the Swedish government and parliament use ICT as a tool to increase transparency, communicate with the citizens and provide access to online services, but the average citizens of Sweden also pays the bills online, declares taxes via e-mail or SMS, refers to online services such as http://www.eniro.se/ for finding a telephone number, accessing maps for a certain area or to get the information on best route by public transport or by own car from one address to another.
Spider is hosted by the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University.
