opening statement during the international seminar on e-governance in asia, beijing, china

Since the beginning of World Wide Web, governments have been caught up with what geeks call the “Web 1.0” era.  We have seen e-mails slowly replacing snail mail and letters, websites speeding up publishing of vital information, and bits and pieces of data being stored handily in computers. Computer programs, instead of personnel, provide much of the work for governments to get going.

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