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of telecommunications and information technologies alongside the bur-
geoning knowledge and interest in promoting participation of citizens in
civic society means that it is timely to find new answers to old problems. A
great diversity of wired and wireless technologies to enable fundamentally
new ways of working, learning, communicating and influencing are com-
ing on stream with great rapidity. Harnessing these to create desirable digi-
tal futures requires a major shift in culture surrounding the developments
of ICT systems, services and projects. What is needed now for this to hap-
pen is leadership in society and the political will to take action to achieve
this change. How to achieve this is discussed in the final chapter.
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