International Workshop on "eParliament: managing innovation"
Organization:
Global Centre for ICT in Parliament
eParliament: managing innovation
10 October 2007
Conference Room B - International Telecommunication Union
Geneva, Switzerland
The International Workshop, organized by the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament, aimed to explore the issues and challenges that parliaments have to face in keeping up with the impact of new technologies and highlight the skills, technologies and approaches required to harness ICT opportunities. The Workshop was aimed at parliamentary staff and officials who work in the ICT-related domain, such as IT administrators, legislative staff, knowledge managers and librarians.
Agenda
| 08.30 am – 09.00 am |
Registration |
| 09.00 am – 09.30 am |
Welcoming remarks
- Gherardo Casini, Executive Coordinator, Global Centre for ICT in Parliament
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| 09:30 am – 11.00 am |
Session 1 – Managing knowledge and innovation in Parliament
Chair: Geoffrey Q.M. Doidge, House Chairperson: Commitees, National Assembly of South Africa
Presentations:
- Joao Viegas d’Abreu, Director ICT, National Assembly of Portugal and Chair of the ECPRD Working Group on ICT
Open discussion |
| 11.00 – 11:30 |
Coffee break |
| 11.30 am – 01.00 pm |
Session 2 – Using open standards to share knowledge and information
Chair:Jeff Griffith, Senior Advisor, Global Centre for ICT in Parliament
Presentations:
- Giovanni Sartor, Professor of Legal Informatics and Legal Theory, European University Institute
- Guenther Schefbeck, Head of the Parliamentary Documentation Department, Parliament of Austria
Open discussion |
| 01.00 pm – 02:30 pm |
Lunch break |
| 02.30 pm – 04.00 pm |
Session 3 – Collaborative software and content development
Chair: Mincho Spassov, Member of Parliament, National Assembly of Bulgaria and President of IPAIT
Presentations:
- Armando Roberto Cerchi Nascimento, Senior ICT Adviser, Secretary of Information and Documentation, Federal Senate of Brazil
- Flavio Zeni, Chief Technical Adviser, Africa i-Parliament Action Plan, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Open discussion |
| 04.00 pm – 04:30 pm |
Coffee break |
| 04.30 pm – 06.00 pm |
Session 4 – Are legislators and citizens ready for new technologies?
Chair: Eliza Roszkowska Öberg, Member of the Committee on Transport and Communications, Parliament of Sweden
Presentations:
Open discussion |
| 06.00 pm – 06:15 pm |
Closing remarks
- Gherardo Casini, Executive Coordinator of the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament
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| Attachment | Size |
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| Agenda | 95.47 KB |
| Agenda (Version française) | 95.22 KB |
| Use of Mobile Technology in ECPRD Parliaments, by João Viegas Abreu, Director ICT, National Assembly of Portugal and Chair of the ECPRD Working Group on ICT | 493.61 KB |
| Legislation in the information society, by Giovanni Sartor, Professor of Legal Informatics and Legal Theory, European University Institute | 367.59 KB |
| E-Parliament: Legislative Standards and Good Practice, by Guenther Schefbeck, Head of the Parliamentary Documentation Department, Parliament of Austria | 278.09 KB |
| E-Parliament – Managing Innovation: Interlegis Case, by Armando Roberto Cerchi Nascimento, Senior ICT Adviser, Secretary of Information and Documentation, Federal Senate of Brazil | 521.86 KB |
| Collaborative software and content development, by Flavio Zeni, Chief Technical Adviser, Africa i-Parliament Action Plan, UNDESA | 4.44 MB |
| eRepresentative: A virtual desktop to support the Mobile Elected Representative, by Vasilis Koulolias, Executive Director, Gov2u | 1.67 MB |
| Are legislators and citizens ready for new technologies? by Ivar Tallo, Senior Programme Officer, UNITAR | 4.14 MB |
| Statement by Ross Ferguson, eDemocracy Programme Director, Hansard Society | 21.64 KB |
International Telecommunication Union
Place des Nations
Geneva, GE
1211
Switzerland
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