Information Technology, Publishing and Exhibitions (TEPEX) is organizing a workshop on E-Parliament. The aim of the workshop is to build the capacity of members of the legislative to use ICTs in discharging their mandate. The topics of the workshop include:
1. Understating ICTs for Legislative Functions
2. ICTs AND National Development
3. ICTs in Legislative Work
4. the Concept and Requirements of e-Parliament
5. the Internet as a Reference Library for Legislators
6. developing a Member/Constituency Website
7. ICT Policy Issues
8. Getting Prepared to Go Online.
The workshop will take place from the 8th to 9th June 2005 at Rockview Hotel, Abuja, Nigeria. For more details contact [email protected]

As spaces of production, diffusion and legitimation of knowledge, universities around the world have for more than a decade, logically found themselves at the heart of the debate on the knowledge society, and of the wave of reforms it stirred up. The Cahiers de la Recherche sur l'Éducation et les Savoirs wishes to throw a comparative and critical light on the on-going transformations of universities and higher education fields of countries in both the North and the South. The proposed thematic issue will, in particular, seek to understand the impact of the above trends on the structure of national HE systems.

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