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Presentation by Raissa Teodori, Secretary, IFLA Section on Library and Research Services for Parliaments and Head of the Special Collections Office, Library, Senate of Italy

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Presentation by Moira Fraser, Chair of the IFLA Parliamentary Library and Research Services Section and Librarian of the Parliament of New Zealand

The 2009 edition of the World e-Parliament Conference  took place from 3 to 5 November 2009 at the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C.
The Conference is the annual forum of the community of parliaments addressing, from both the policy and technical perspectives, how the use of information and communication technology can help improve representation, transparency, accountability, openness, and effectiveness in the complex parliamentary environment.

The Report of the World e-Parliament Conference 2009 is now available.

The World e-Parliament Conference 2008 took place at the European Parliament in Brussels on 25 and 26 November 2008. The World e-Parliament Conference 2008 represented a unique opportunity for leaders and members of parliaments, parliamentary officials and experts to exchange views at a global level on new technologies and innovation as tools to strengthen the representative, legislative and oversight functions of regional and national assemblies.

(Delegates and observers are listed in alphabetical order under each Country, Assembly or Institution)

• Afghanistan
  National Assembly
  Temorshah QAYOUM (Mr.) - Head of the Library
  Mortaza RAHIMI (Mr.) - General Director of the ICT Department
• Albania
  Assembly of the Republic
  Zana BUFI (Ms.) - Director of Library and Research Services
• Algeria
  Council of the Nation
  Amor SAIDI (Mr.) - Director of ICT
  Allel HADDAD (Mr.) - Director of Documentation and Publications
• Austria
  Parliament
  Elizabeth Dietrich-Schulz (Ms.) – Head-librarian*
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
  Parliamentary Assembly
  Branislav CODO (Mr.) - IT Administrator
  Edina FAZLAGIC (Ms.) - Head of the Library Department
• Canada
  Geralyne DIONNE (Ms.) - Professional Librarian*
• Congo
  National Assembly
  Blaise OBEMBO (Mr.) - Head of the Documentation and Archives Office
• Congo, Democratic Republic of the
  National Assembly
  Willy NYAMANGO (Mr.) - Head of the IT Department
• East African Legislative Assembly (EALA)
  Charlotte KYOMUHANGI (Ms.) - Librarian
• Egypt
  People’s Assembly
  Sawsan AL HENNAWY (Ms.) - Head of the Information Sector
• Ethiopia
  House of the Federation
  Ahmed MOHAMMED (Mr.) - Head of the IT Department
  House of People’s Representatives
  Tewodros ABDISHU (Mr.) - Librarian
  Yemisrach ADINEW (Ms.) - Librarian
• Ghana
  Parliament
  David ADDOW-QUARSHIE (Mr.) - Director of the IT Department
  Gloria AKWORKOR INSAIDOO (Ms.) - Head of the Library
  Emmanuel NKANSAH SEFA (Mr.) - Principal Library Assistant
• India
  Council of States
  Triloknath MISHRA (Mr.) - Deputy Director of the Library and Research Service
• Iraq
  Council of Representatives
  Mayada AL-HACHAMI (Ms.) - General Director of the Research Directorate
  Awfa Zuhair ABU ALHASAB (Ms.) - Head of the Research Section in the Research Directorate
  Mohammad ABBAS HASAN (Mr.) - Head of the Library Section in the Research Directorate
• Jordan
  Sawsan HIJAZIN (Ms.) -  Legislative Strenghtening Program*
• Ireland
  Houses of the Oireachtas
  John McDONOUGH (Mr.) - Library and Research Service, Head of Collections*
• Lebanon
  National Assembly
  Bassel DOHAINI (Mr.) - IT Specialist
  Amal TARHINI (Ms.) - Director of the Library
• Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of
  Assembly of the Republic
  Todorce LUKAREVSKI (Mr.) - Head of the Library
  Kiril SIMEV (Mr.) – Librarian
• Malawi
  National Assembly
  Maxwell S. BANDA (Mr.) - Librarian
  Bridget CHIWAYA (Ms.) - Head of the Library
• Montenegro
  Parliament
  Svjetlana ALIGRUDIC (Ms.) – Librarian
• Morocco
  House of Representatives
  Sidi Mohamed LOUKILI (Mr.) - Head of the Studies and Documentation Department
  Abdellatif ZAOUI (Mr.) - Library IT Specialist
• Mozambique
  Assembly of the Republic
  Julio DA SILVA (Mr.) - Director of parliamentary documentation division
  Nildo ROBERTO (Mr.) - IT Senior
• Pakistan
  Parliamentarians’ Resource Center
  Bushra NAZLI (Ms.) - Manager
• Pan-African Parliament
  Muyoyeta SIMUI (Ms.) - Cataloguist
  Fasil YILMA (Mr.) - IT Systems Administrator
• Serbia
  National Assembly of the Republic
  Marina KRNJETA (Ms.) - Library IT Specialist
  Radmila STOJANOVIC (Ms.) - Head of the Library
• Southern African Development Community Parliamentary Forum
  Bongani MKHALIPHI (Mr.) - Resource Centre Officer
  Ronald WINDWAII (Mr.) - Webmaster
• Tanzania, United Republic of
  National Assembly
  Abdallah HANCHA (Mr.) - Senior Research Officer
  Kileo NYAMBELE (Mr.) - Head of the Library and Research Department
• Thailand
  Senate
  Sangduen PONGPUT (Ms.) - Librarian
• Tunisia
  Chamber of Councillors
  Azza AOUN (Ms.) - Head of the Library
  Chamber of Deputies
  Yasmina HAMMAMI (Ms.) - Director of the Library and Documentation Centre
  Mohamed SAMMOUD (Mr.) - Head of the IT Department
• Ukraine
  Parliament
  Oleksiy SYDORENKO (Mr.) - Director of IT Systems Department
  Parliamentary Development Project
  Ellie VALENTINE (Ms.) - Project Director*

 * Observers

Thanks to libraries, civilisations have gathered and stored evidence of their manual, scientific, artistic, literary, musical as well as religious activity. Assuredly, libraries preserve the bases and the roots of human knowledge. Knowledge transmission today has radically changed: the scope of bibliography has widened immensely. Libraries therefore had to update their role: preservation and access are still the main points to be achieved, though in a new, critical and professional way, in order to assure the adequate standard of the service.

The 25th IFLA Pre-Conference of Library and Research Services for Parliaments was held in Rome from 19 to21 August 2009. The theme for this conference ‒ Digital Information for Democracy: Management, Access and Preservation ‒ is the cutting edge in innovation and development of parliamentary libraries and documentation services.

On 18 August, the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament, the Italian joint Parliamentary Library and the IFLA Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section, held a one-day training titled "Leveraging Technology for Parliamentary Libraries and Research Services".

In recent years, parliaments have begun to exploit advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) to support their many functions and modernize their institutions. However, to date, there has not been an assessment on how these technologies are being employed across the array of activities for which a parliament is responsible.

The World e-Parliament Report 2008 represents a first effort to establish a baseline of how parliaments are using, or planning to use ICT to help them fulfill their responsibilities and to connect to their constituencies. The Report also provides an opportunity for sharing lessons learned and good practices from different regions of the world.