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and digital inclusion carried out in different Ibero American countries with the goal of developing
cooperation projects of common interest was agreed.
Among others, the Lisbon Declaration, contains recommendations to Governments related to “a
more open, transparent and collaborative Administration model, that allows effectively responding to
economic, social, cultural and environmental challenges posed at worldwide level”. For this purpose,
the Declaration considers the use of ICTs to transform the Administration. In this sense, the signatory
countries consider that “the electronic administration and administrative simplification policies shall
contribute, in an articulated manner, to the development public services of higher quality”.
To this effect, the Lisbon Declaration acknowledges that “the development of safe identification and
electronic authentication is another condition for the pretended change, stressing its role in promoting
procedures simplification and fostering the use of electronic services.” Finally, the Lisbon Declaration
acknowledges that “e-government objectives shall go further than mere efficacy and efficiency of
administration processes towards ways that allow social, political, economical changes focused on
human development, equal opportunities and social justice.”
Consequently, the signatory countries of the Lisbon Declaration agreed:
• To foster programs that relate electronic administration to administrative simplification, with the
goal of turning interactions of citizens and business with the Government Administration simpler,
faster and more efficient, reducing operation costs and time, for the exercise of economical
activities, and increasing the efficiency of the Public Administration,
• To interchange experiences between the Ibero American community, in relation to the creation
of unique, physical or virtual integrated systems that should be organized in line with citizens and
businesses demand.
• To interchange experiences relative to the implementation of forms of safe electronic and biometric
identification and of articulation mechanisms for the development of trans-border electronic
services, in the Ibero American context,
• To articulate the interchange of experiences in the use of ICTs to ensure transparency in the
processes of public decision making and to provide with new ways of democratic participation.
• To promote digital inclusion policies and practices and other mechanisms to facilitate the access
to electronic services so that citizens can benefit from ICTs potentialities, in an egalitarian and
universality manner, so that social and territorial cohesion are ensured.
Sectorial Ministers Conferences
In all the sectorial ministers conferences, the issue of social inclusion was dealt with as the axis of
the region public policies, and the use of communications and information technologies for the
deployment of substantive public policies.
In effect, in the X Ibero American Conference of Agricultural Ministers in Mar del Plata, held under
the “Education and Agriculture for the Inclusive Development” theme, the issues dealt with were the
settlement of wide ranging agreements to improve life conditions of rural inhabitants, to promote
family agriculture, to ensure food security and to favour the access to educational systems and a
respectable and paid job.
Additionally, the XII Ibero American Conference of Ministers and High Rank Responsible for Infancy
and Adolescence held in Buenos Aires, stated its commitment to adopt legislation, policies and
institutional practices to facilitate the construction of integral systems for the protection of infancy
and adolescence.
Likewise, the Ministries agreed to set up a virtual platform, on the SEGIB institutional web, to facilitate
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