The document discusses using information and communication technology (ICT) to involve more people in tobacco control efforts. It provides examples of how different digital governance models like e-advocacy/mobilization and lobbying models have been applied to impact decision-making processes. Existing tobacco control websites and organizations in Taiwan are also listed. It raises questions about how to better utilize ICT like e-papers and websites to engage more people and fill existing gaps.

1. 用 手指 做 運動 網際網路與菸害防制 報告人：黃怡碧 / TIMA 台灣國際醫學聯盟 日 期： July 11, 2003

2. How can we involve more people in term of tobacco control with ICT (information and communication technology)? 網際網路在你我生活中扮演了什麼腳色 ? Can you live without the internet?

3. 做自己的主人 - Digital Governance Introduction of Digital Governance is a way to ensure that common citizens have equal right to be a part of decision-making processes which affect them directly or indirectly, and influence them in a manner which best improves their conditions and the quality of lives. The new form of Governance will ensure that citizens are no longer passive consumer of governance services offered to them, and instead would have the potential to play a decisive role in deciding the kind of services they want and the structure which could best provide the same. @ Governance in broader terms may be defined as the way society works and is organized.

4. Generic Models Broadcasting/Wider-Dissemination Model (ex. Earth Negotiation Bulletin ) Critical-Flow Model (ex. Human Rights Portal ) Comparative Analysis Model (ex. Human Development Index, UNDP ) E-Advocacy/Mobilization and Lobbying Model Interactive-Service Model (ex. Philippine Customs Reform )

5. E-Advocacy / Mobilization and Lobbying Model Underlying Principle E-Advocacy/Mobilization and Lobbying Model is one of the most frequently used Digital Governance model and has often come to the aid of the global civil society to impact on global decision-making processes .

6. The model is based on setting-up a planned , directed flow of information to build strong virtual allies to complement actions in the real world. Virtual communities are formed which share similar values and concerns , and these communities in turn link up with or support real-life groups/ activities for concerted action. The model builds the momentum of real-world processes by adding the opinions and concerns expressed by virtual communities.

7. The strength of this model is in its diversity of the virtual community, and the ideas, expertise and resources accumulated through this virtual form of networking . The model is able to mobilize and leverage human resources and information beyond geographical, institutional and bureaucratic barriers , and use it for concerted action.

9. Applications This model could be applied in the following possible ways: Fostering public debates on issue of larger concerns, namely on the themes of upcoming conferences, treaties etc. Formation of pressure groups on key issues to force decision-makers to take their concerns into cognisance.

10. Making available opinions of a suppressed groups who are not involved in the decision-making process into wider public domain. Catalysing wider participation in decision-making processes. Building up global expertise on a particular theme in absence of localised information to aid decision-making. http://www .cddc.vt.edu/digitalgov/gov -e-advocacy-models.html

11. The Internet: A Powerful Tool by/of/for Civil Society Email alone can change the world --- International Campaign to Ban Landmines, ICBL ( http://www .icbl .org )

12. Action alert on Asia: for the Meeting of States Parties TAKE ACTION! If you are a youth or student please focus on INDIA AND PAKISTAN and the Youth Against War Treaty. Or, for everyone, please write to NEPAL and SRI LANKA and urge them to ban mine use as part of their peace processes. And/or write to CHINA, SINGAPORE AND VIETNAM and demand that they stop producing mines (or promise never to produce them again). Tell your friends to act too!

13. Earth Day Network

14. Let’s get back to tobacco control…

15. Information/Knowledge is Power -Database Portal/Networking Tobacco Free Initiative, WHO ( http://www.who .int /tobacco/en/) UICC Globalink ( http://www.globalink.org/ ) Tobacco Free Asia ( http://www .tobaccofreeasia .net ) Technical assistance/Service : CDC ( http://www.cdc.gov ) American Cancer Society ( http://www.cancer.org /docroot /home/index.asp ) American Lung Association ( http://www.lungusa.org/tobacco/)

16. Social Advocacy/Campaign: Watchdog/Monitoring/Surveillance Action on Smoking and Health, Thailand (http://www.ashthailand.or.th/) Action on Smoking and Health, UK ( http://www.ash.org.uk /) FCA ( http://www .fctc .org )

17. Youth and Tobacco Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/ Kick Butts Day (http://kickbuttsday.org/) Youth Smoking Prevention (BAT, Philip Morris, JT Int’l)

18. 台灣地區現有菸害防制網站 董氏基金會菸害防制特區 ( http://www.jtf.org.tw/JTF03/New91/03-01.asp ) 國民健康局菸害防制特區 ( http://www .bhp.doh.gov.tw/ch /index .htm ) 台灣國際醫學聯盟菸害防制專區 ( http://en1.url.com.tw/tobacco_free_taiwan/ )

19. What should we do to fill the gap? How can we involve more people with ICT (information and communication technology)? With e-papers? How often? Who are we going to distribute to? With websites? What kind of website? Who are we going to target? Others? Floor Discussion