Report of the Regional Workshop - Escap

Annex II: Group activity two
• Timely and accurate data
• Improves quality of data
• Information is power, it financially rewards/benefits stakeholders
Side benefits that encourage stakeholder participation:
• Compressed information storage
• Minimizes information damage
• Promotes online services, saves time and energy
• Online consultancy
• Online job application
• Better governmental functioning
• Minimizes corruption due to quick generation of reports
from various levels of stakeholders
• Improved governmental and inter-departmental coordination
• Enlightenment of people in lower social class (women/
illiterate people)
• Facilitates online interaction with facilities like webcam
• Better emotional aspects
• Improves bottom-up approach and reduces gap between
organizations involved
• Better and more concise communication through use of
symbols
• Improves research and analysis activities
• Possibility of obtaining reports even from remote and dangerous
areas
• Decreases gaps between “haves” and “have nots”
• Increases knowledge of global economy and transaction
• Increases freedom of information
• Reduces cost through economies of scale
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