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 A meeting on Parliaments in the Information Age: mobilizing stakeholders around concrete initiatives was held on 24 May, at the Palais des Nations, in Geneva, as part of a cluster of events related to the implementation of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).
fThe meeting was organized by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in their capacity as facilitators of the “Subgroup on ICT in Parliament of Action Line C1”, within the framework of the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament. The purpose of the meeting was to bring together stakeholders undertaking activities in the area of ICT and Parliaments to exchange experiences, create synergies and facilitate collaboration. Special attention was placed on Open Source in Parliament and on Africa, as well as on the preparation of a Global Report on ICT in Parliament. A final session was dedicated to presentations of ongoing initiatives and technical assistance programmes. Report
Agenda
Participants Parliaments and WSIS Implementation ......................................... PRESENTATIONS ......................................... Opening remarks - Patrizio Civili, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)
- Anders B. Johnsson, Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
Keynote addresses
The role of parliaments in advancing the Information Society Chair: Anders B. Johnsson, Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) - Mincho Viktorov Spasov , Vice President of IPAIT and Member of the National Assembly of Bulgaria - The International Parliamentarians’ Association for Information Technology (IPAIT)
- Enrico Seta, Senior Advisor, Chamber of Deputies of Italy – Outcome of the International Conference “The policymaking role of Parliaments in the development of the Information Society”
Parliaments and Open Source Chair: Gherardo Casini, Executive Coordinator a. i. of the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament - Flavio Zeni, Chief Technical Adviser, UNDESA - Open Source and open standards in Africa: “The Africa i-Parliaments Action Plan”
- Armando Roberto Cerchi Nascimento, Senior ICT Adviser, Department of Information and Documentation of the Federal Senate of Brazil – The Interlegis Project
The Global Centre for ICT in Parliament - Gherardo Casini , Executive Coordinator a.i. of the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament Overview of the work plan for 2007/2008
- Jeffrey Griffith , Senior Advisor of the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament - The Global Report on ICT in Parliament
Presentations of Parliament-to-Parliament and donor-funded projects and activities in the ICT and Parliament domain Co-Chairs: Geoff Q. Doidge, House Chairperson of Committees and ICT of the National Assembly of South Africa; Patrizio Civili, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) - Enrico Seta, Senior Advisor, Chamber of Deputies of Italy
- Dirk Toornstra, Special Advisor for the promotion of democracy, European Parliament (EP)
- Mauro Massoni, Head of the Multilateral Office, Directorate General for Development Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy
- Ross Ferguson, Director eDemocracy Programme , Hansard Society
- Rut Martinez, Basque Parliament/CALRE Working Group on e-Democracy
- Makane Faye, ICT, Science and Technology Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
- Thomas Huyghebaert, Global Programme for Parliamentary Strengthening, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- Elisabet Lindquist Michailaki , Representative of the Swedish Parliament and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
- Mats Lindberg, Good Governance in the Information Society Programme, Council of Europe
- Josta de Hoog, Director of Politix
Next steps and closing remarks - Patrizio Civili, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)
- Anders B. Johnsson, Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
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