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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
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| 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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