People, energy, ecommerce and digital culture
There are many projects which are improving people’s lifestyle for the invention of E-commerce. Among those a project name ‘The Greenstar project’ works with people in traditional cultures to express the voice of the community to the world through original music, artwork, photography and video and other arts. Income from this “digital culture” provides income for an ongoing, community-driven process of literacy, local business, education and training, public health, and environmental programmes. To deliver these services efficiently and quickly, moreover this project has designed a portable community centre.
They used solar power generated by large photovoltaic panels; the centre can drive a satellite or wireless link to the internet, a water purifier, a small clinic, a vaccine cooler, a classroom, and a digital studio. The people of each village are encouraged to develop an e-commerce website, and they employ local musicians, teachers and art professional to record the voice of the community. Greenstar packages the materials for various markets, both direct to the consumer, and through licensing to businesses. This formula provides new jobs and skills, strengthens local culture and language, and affirms people’s independence. Villagers own the Greenstar Village Center themselves, and become shareholders in Greenstar digital products available direct to the internet consumer from the Greenstar World Gallery include music, paintings and drawings, photographs, video, poetry and stories, as well as new art forms such as animated panoramas. These products are also licensed by businesses, as “digital premiums” to communicate with customers and motivate their participation in a wide range of "green" programmes, including alternative energy, textiles and clothing, and interactive entertainment.
Source: www.greenstar.org
The overall goal of the project is to create transparent, equal and accessible environment for public procurement procedures and to reduce financial, organizational and time resources, spent by the companies in public procurement procedures. The companies receive information for small-scale procurement procedures, send their offers and participate in the whole tendering process via internet. The only technical requirement is to use digital signature for registration in the system and submission of offers and related documents.
The Bulgarian Ministry of Finance have implemented this feature together with a whole package of useful resources such as a number of national budget & national debt issues, tax information, various statistics and highlights on Bulgarian and European Union legislative basis. The merit of the website is the good structure of the information and it certified origin as well as several user-friendly features as search & interactive tools.
The overall concept of the website and the services provided has proven his efficiency and usefulness for citizens making use of internet. Main benefits of the online activities are their interactivity and the absence of censorship. The value added in terms of empowerment is also notable - transparency and democratic expression are highly stimulated and political issues in particular are discussed freely in public. Contributions and solutions have been suggested and given for consideration directly to the Public Authorities without institutional intermediate.
Source: WSIS Stocktaking Database and the website of the activity
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