The Inter-Parliamentary Union published the Social Media Guidelines for Parliament. Prepared with support from the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament the Guidelines draw on lessons learned by parliaments so far and on good practice in the social media sphere. The objective is to encourage more widespread, more efficient and more effective use of social media by parliaments.

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The 2012 Law Via the Internet (LVI 2012) took place at the Cornell Legal Information Institute (Ithaca, New York) from 7 to 9 October 2012 and covered themes on free and open access to legal information: open government and e- participation, legal publishing, open access and sustainability, applications, data management, etc.

 

• Orden del día y el orden del día anotado (PDF)

13 de septiembre
08:00 – 09:15	Inscripción de los delegados

La Conferencia Mundial de 2012 sobre el Parlamento electrónico está organizada conjuntamente por las Naciones Unidas y la Unión Interparlamentaria, a través del Centro Mundial para las TIC en el Parlamento, y hospedada por la Cámara de Diputados de Italia en Roma.

The school provided knowledge of the most significant ICT standards emerging for legislation, judiciary, parliamentary and administrative documents. The course provided an understanding of their impact in the different phases of the legislative and administrative process, awareness of the tools based on legal XML standards and their constellations, and the ability to participate in the preparation and use of standard-compliant documents throughout law-making process.
This year the course took place in Ravenna, Italy, on 10-15 September 2012.
It was followed on 17-18 September by a Akoma Ntoso Developers Workshop.

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The Reports, prepared by the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament, intend to help legislatures to harness the potential benefits of ICT for their work and establish key goals and priorities for exploiting this valuable resource. While providing evidence of the complexities of e-parliament, the Reports suggest ways to overcome some of the obstacles to the effective use of technology in parliamentary settings.

The European Union’s cyber security agency, ENISA held a special event to discuss how Europe’s “digital society” can be kept safe for all citizens.

El Centro Mundial para las TIC en el Parlamento ha sido informado por el Senado de Italia que un servicio en línea para la conversión de documentos electrónicos en formatos "ebook" ha sido lanzado recientemente en el sitio web del Senado con el fin de aumentar el acceso a la información parlamentaria desde dispositivos móviles. El servicio está disponible gratuitamente en http://www.senato.it/ebook.

The White House has released the software code for its IT Dashboard and TechStat toolkit. The initiative was coordinated through Civic Commons, a code-sharing project incubated within Code for America that helps governments share technology for the public good, with support from OpenPlans.

The Africa i-Parliament Action Plan convened a workshop to localise the Bungeni Parliamentary Information System and Akoma Ntoso Standards to the requirements of the different Portuguese speaking parliaments in Africa.

Parliamentary documents such as committee reports and texts of debates and hearings are fundamental records of the legislature. These documents must be prepared quickly, efficiently and accurately. They must be distributed easily and then amended, revised and redistributed just as easily. And they must be archived effectively to ensure availability and long-term preservation. The findings of the 2010 edition of the World e-Parliament Report indicate that timely public availability of such legislative records is a key ingredient for a more open, transparent and accountable legislature, and therefore a cornerstone of healthy parliamentary democracies.

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Panelists

Moderator: 

Flavio Zeni, Chief Technical Advisor, Africa i-Parliament Action Plan, UN/DESA

Panelists: 

Bungeni Team, Africa i-Parliament Action Plan, UN/DESA

Job Pierre, Chief of IT Services, Chamber of Deputies of Haiti

Clement Nyandiere, Director, Information and Research Services, National Assembly

Bungeni is an open source Parliamentary and Legislative Information System that aims to make Parliaments more open and accessible to citizens, virtually allowing them “inside parliament”, or “bungeni” in Swahili.

Panelists

Moderator: 

Zwelethu L. Madasa, Clerk of the Pan-African Parliament

Panelists: 

Radhakrishna Lutchmana Padayachie, Deputy Minister of Public Service and Administration of the Republic of South Africa

Jeffrey Griffith, Senior Advisor, Global Centre for ICT in Parliament

1. Governing at a time of technological changes
2. An overview of the findings of the World e-Parliament Report 2010