World e-Parliament Conference 2008

Opening and Closing Sessions


	Hans-Gert Pöttering, President of the European Parliament
	Ahmed Fathy Sorour, Speaker of the People's Assembly of Egypt
	Katalin Szili, Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly
	Mechtild Rothe, Vice-President of the European Parliament
	Anders B. Johnsson, Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
	Jeff Griffith, Senior Advisor, Global Centre for ICT in Parliament

Sessions' speakers


	Mohamed Nagib Abou-Zeid, Member of the Shoura Council of Egypt
	Pablo Álvarez, President of the Special Committee on Innovation, Research, Science and Technology, Chamber of Representatives of Uruguay
	Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, President of the Working Group on e-Democracy of the Conference of Presidents of the Regional Legislative Assemblies of Europe (CALRE) and President of the Basque Parliament
	Peter Brown, Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
	Gherardo Casini, Executive Coordinator of the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament
	Vladimir Danchev, Head of the Regional Secretariat for Parliamentary Cooperation in South East Europe
	Zingile A. Dingani, Secretary General, Parliament of South Africa
	Tom Van Engers, Professor of Legal Knowledge Management, University of Amsterdam
	Sergio Falcão, Advisor to the Chief Information Officer, Chamber of Deputies of Brazil
	Soledad Ferreiro, Director of the Library of the National Congress of Chile
	Hernán Figueroa, Director ICT, Chamber of Deputies of Chile
	Assem Genedy, Director, Information Centre, People’s Assembly of Egypt
	Jon Gómez Goikolea, Director of Cabinet of the Speaker of the Basque Parliament
	Miguel Ángel Gonzalo, Head, Coordination and Projects Planning Unit, Cabinet of the Secretary General, Congress of Deputies of Spain
	Kirsten Gullickson, Senior Systems Analyst, House of Representatives of the United States of America
	Eszter Kertészné-Gérecz, Head of the Department for Informatics, Hungarian National Assembly
	Ganyani Khosa, ICT Director, Parliament of Zimbabwe
	Justin Koumba, Speaker of the National Assembly of Congo
	Erick Landaverde, IT Officer, National Assembly of El Salvador
	Juha-Pekka Leskinen, IT Manager, Parliament of Finland
	Ninoska López, IT Analyst, National Assembly of Nicaragua
	Ann Macintosh, Professor of Digital Governance, Institute of Communications Studies The University of Leeds
	Carlo Marchetti, Counsellor, IT Department, Senate of the Republic of Italy
	Fernando Milán Zuber, ICT Director, Chamber of Deputies of Mexico
	Joan Miller, Director of Parliamentary ICT, Parliament of the United Kingdom
	Gertrude Mongella, President, Pan African Parliament
	Karina Newton, Director of New Media, Office of the Speaker, House of Representatives of the United States of America
	Piotr Nowina-Konopka, Director for Relations with National Parliaments, European Parliament and co-Director, European Centre for Parliamentary Research and Development (ECPRD)
	Eliza Roszkowska Öberg, Member of the Parliament of Sweden
	Alessandro Palanza, Deputy Secretary General, Chamber of Deputies of Italy
	Mahesh Perera, Director, Information Systems and Management, Parliament of Sri Lanka
	Rudy Salles, Vice President, National Assembly of France
	Gro Sandgrind, Chair of the IFLA Section on Library and Research Services for Parliaments
	Giovanni Sartor, Professor of Legal Informatics and Legal Theory, European University Institute
	Enrico Seta, Head of International Affairs Office, Research Department, Chamber of Deputies of Italy
	Raissa Teodori, Senior Parliamentary Officer, Library, Senate of the Republic of Italy and Member of the Standing Committee of the IFLA Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section
	Dirk Toornstra, Special Advisor for the promotion of democracy, European Parliament (EP)
	Rogério Ventura Teixeira, Head of the Center for Qualification and Training, Chamber of Deputies of Brazil
	Joao Viegas d’Abreu, Coodinator of the ECPRD Working Group on ICT
	Richard Ware, Director Programme and Project Development, Parliament of the United Kingdom
	Flavio Zeni, Chief Technical Adviser, Africa i-Parliament Action Plan, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs