Agenda and Presentations

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Day 1: Policy and Management Issues (Room HVC-210)

09:00 am – 09:30 am	Opening Session Karen L. Haas, Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives John-Mary Kauzya, Chief, PACB/DPADM, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations Marc Bosc, Deputy Clerk, House of Commons of Canada and President of the Association of Secretaries General of Parliament, on behalf of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
09:30 am – 11:00 am	Plenary Session 1 – The evolving concept of transparency in legislatures Chair: Gherardo Casini, Head of Office, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations Marc Bosc, Deputy Clerk, House of Commons of Canada and President of the Association of Secretaries General of Parliament Rogério Ventura Teixeira, Director General, Chamber of Deputies of Brazil Open discussion
11:00 am – 11:30 am	Coffee break
11:30 am – 01:00 pm	Plenary Session 2 – Pursuing a more open parliament: management and organizational challenges Chair: Jeff Griffith, Senior Advisor, Global Centre for ICT in Parliament John Pullinger, Director General of Information Services, House of Commons Bob Reeves, Deputy Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives Open discussion
01:00 pm – 02:30 pm	Lunch break
02:30 pm – 04:00 pm	Plenary Session 3 – Access to parliamentary information, open document standards and the dialogue with civil society Chair: Daniel Poulin, President of LEXUM, and Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Montreal Doru Frantescu, Policy Director, Vote Watch Daniel Schuman, Director, Advisory Committee on Transparency, Sunlight Foundation/Open Congress Open discussion
04:00 pm – 04:30 pm	Coffee break
04:30 pm – 06:00 pm	Plenary Session 4 – Assessing the benefits of open document standards for greater transparency Chair: Andy Richardson, Information Officer, Inter-Parliamentary Union Jim Harper, Director, Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute Bob Reeves, Deputy Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives Open discussion
06:00 pm – 08:00 pm	Welcoming Reception - Remarks by The Honorable John Boehner, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives

Day 2: The approach of the U.S. House of Representatives to transparency
(Room South Congressional Meeting Room CVC-217)

Sessions for Secretaries General, Clerks and Heads of delegations

08:30 am – 09:00 am	Breakfast offered by the U.S. House of Representatives
09:00 am – 09:30 am	Tour House Floor
09:30 am – 10:30 am	Visit to the Rules Committee
10:30 am – 11:00 am	Coffee break
11:00 am – 12:00 pm	Parallel Session A.1 – Current state of technology and recent innovations in the U.S. House of Representatives Chair: Karen L. Haas, Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives Bob Reeves, Deputy Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives Reynold Schweikardt, Director of Technology Committee on House Administration Andrew Weber, Legislative Information Systems Manager, Law Library of Congress Q&A session
12:00 pm – 01:00 pm	Parallel Session A.2 – Future plans to achieve greater transparency through ICT Chair: Bob Reeves, Deputy Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives Hugh Halpren, Staff Director of the Rules Committee Reynold Schweikardt, Director of Technology Committee on House Administration Q&A session
01:00 pm – 02:30 pm	Lunch offered by the U.S. House of Representatives
02:30 pm – 03:45 pm	Parallel Session A.3 – Technology in Members Offices Chair: Bob Reeves, Deputy Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives Matt Lira, Director of New Media, Office of the Majority Leader Steve Dwyer, Director of Online Communications and Technology, Office of the Minority Whip Q&A session
03:45 pm – 04:15 pm	Coffee break
04:15 pm – 05:30 pm	Parallel Session A.4 – Members use of Technology for Strengthening Representation Chair: Karen L. Haas, Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives The Honorable Eric Cantor, Majority Leader

Day 2: Advancing the use of XML for transparency at the national and international level (Room HVC-210)

Sessions for parliamentary staff and experts

09:00 am – 09:10 am	Opening day remarks Gherardo Casini, Head of Office, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations
09:10 am – 10:10 am	Parallel Session B.1 – XML Schemas Joan Miller, Director, Parliamentary ICT, UK Parliament Roberto Bustos Latorre, Director of Communication and Technology, Senate of Chile Q&A session
10:10 am – 11:10 am	Parallel Session B.2 – XML Editors Claudio Fabiani, IT Project Manager, DG Innovation and Technological Support, European Parliament Ashok Hariharan, Programme Officer, Africa i-Parliaments Action Plan, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations Q&A session
11:10 am – 11:30 am	Coffee break
11:30 am – 12:30 pm	Parallel Session B.3 – Storage of XML documents Niels Vesterholt, System Consultant, Parliament of Denmark Sylvia Tosar, Director General and member of the Information Technology Committee, Parliament of Uruguay Q&A session
12:30 pm – 01:30 pm	Parallel Session B.4 – Multichannel dissemination of parliamentary documentation Kirsten Gullickson, Senior Systems Analyst, U.S. House of Representatives Mauro Fioroni, Head of the IT Department, Senate of Italy Q&A session
01:30 pm – 02:30 pm	Lunch break
02:30 pm – 03:30 pm	Parallel Session B.5 – Preservation and authentication: challenges and advantages Soufiane Ben Moussa, Chief of Application Architecture and Development, House of Commons of Canada Q&A session
03:30 pm – 04:30 pm	Parallel Session B.6 – Innovative solutions in the near future Elena Flavia Candia, Programme Manager, IT Department, Chamber of Deputies of Italy Andreas Sidler, Chief Information Officer, Federal Parliament of Switzerland Q&A session
04:30 pm – 05:00 pm	Coffee break
05:00 pm – 06:00 pm	Parallel Session B.7 – The potential of collaboration to advance the use of standards Antonio Esposito, Member of the Board of IPEX and EU Affairs Department Officer, Chamber of Deputies of Italy Monica Palmirani, Member of the LegalXML Member Section Steering Committee, OASIS and Associate Professor, CIRSFID, Faculty of Law, University of Bologna Open discussion

Day 3: Emerging opportunities for inter-parliamentary cooperation to achieve greater transparency (Room HVC-210)

08:30 am – 9:00 am	Group picture
09:00 am – 09:30 am	Opening day remarks
09:30 am – 10:30 am	Plenary Session 5 – Taking ICT in Parliament to the next level Chair: Bob Reeves, Deputy Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives Flavio Zeni, Chief Technical Advisor, Africa i-Parliaments Action Plan, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations Open discussion
10:30 am – 11:00 am	Coffee break
11:00 am – 12:00 pm	Plenary Session 6 – Status and projected developments for open document standards in legislatures Chair: Gherardo Casini, Head of Office, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations Fabio Vitali, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna Co-rapporteurs: Thomas R. Bruce, Director, Legal Information Institute, School of Law, Cornell University Jeff Griffith, Senior Advisor, Global Centre for ICT in Parliament Open discussion
12:00 pm – 01:00 pm	Plenary Session 7 – Areas and modalities of possible inter-parliamentary cooperation for greater transparency Chair: Andy Richardson, Information Officer, Inter-Parliamentary Union Rogério Ventura Teixeira, Director General, Chamber of Deputies of Brazil and Chair of the Executive Committee of the Exchange Network of Parliaments of Latin America and the Caribbean (ENPLAC) Ravi Poliah, Secretary to the Africa Parliamentary Knowledge Network (APKN) and Acting Division Manager: Corporate Services, Parliament of South Africa John Pullinger, Chair, IFLA Section on Library and Research Services for Parliaments and Director General of Information Services, House of Commons, UK Parliament Scott Hubli, Director, Governance Programs, National Democratic Institute Open discussion
01:00 pm – 01:30 pm	Closing Session John-Mary Kauzya, Chief, PACB/DPADM, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations Marc Bosc, Deputy Clerk, House of Commons of Canada and President of the Association of Secretaries General of Parliament, on behalf of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Karen L. Haas, Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
01:30 pm – 02:30 pm	Lunch break
02:30 pm – 05:00 pm	Time for informal networking among delegates

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