08:00 am – 09:15 am

Registration of delegates

Aula dei Gruppi

09:15 am – 10:00 am

Official opening of the World e-Parliament Conference 2012

• Gianfranco Fini, President of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy (VIDEO)
• Anders B. Johnsson, Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union  (VIDEO)
• Thomas Stelzer, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs of the United Nations (VIDEO)
• Abel Martínez Durán, President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Dominican Republic  and Co-Chair of the Board of the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament  (VIDEO)
• Rainer Wieland, Vice President of the European Parliament and Co-Chair of the Board of the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament (VIDEO)
• Maurizio Lupi, Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy and member of the Board of the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament (VIDEO)
• Benedetto Adragna, Senator and Questor of the Senate of Italy Greetings on behalf of the Presidency of the Senate (VIDEO)

10:00 am – 10:30 am

The State of ICT in Parliaments today: the World e-Parliament Report 2012 (VIDEO)
Key note address: Jeffrey Griffith, Senior Advisor, Global Centre for ICT in Parliament

Aula dei Gruppi

Sala del Mappamondo

10:30 am – 12:00 pm

Session A1 - The impact of technology on parliamentary openness and accountability (VIDEO)
Chair: Jennifer Simons, Speaker of the Parliament of Suriname

• Antonio Palmieri, Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy
• Juan José Lucas Giménez, 1st Vice President, Senate of Spain
• Chifumu Banda, Deputy Chairperson of Committees of the National Assembly of Zambia

Session B1 – Bungeni Parliamentary Information and Legislative System: features, architecture and localization (VIDEO)
Chair: João Viegas Abreu, Senior Programme Expert, Global Centre for ICT in Parliament, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations

• Flavio Zeni, Chief Technical Adviser. Africa i-Parliaments Action Plan, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations
• Miriam Ngoka, Programme Officer,  Africa i-Parliaments Action Plan, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations
• Ashok Hariharan, Software Development Coordinator, Africa i-Parliaments Action Plan, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations
• Mario Ruggier, Software Development Officer, Africa i-Parliaments Action Plan, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations
• Fabio Vitali, Co-Chair of the OASIS LegalDocumentML, Committee Professor of Computer Science, University of Bologna

12:00 pm – 01:30 pm

Session A2 - The challenges of today’s participatory media for parliaments and legislators  (VIDEO)
Chair: Abdelouahed El Ansari, Vice President of the House of Representatives of Morocco

• Cedrick Frolick, House Chairperson of the National Assembly of South Africa
• Archy Kirkwood, Chairman of the Information Committee of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom
• Eriko Yamatani, Member of the House of Councillors of Japan
• Ramón Farías Ponce, Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile

Session B2 - Bungeni  Parliamentary Information and Legislative System: the way forward  (VIDEO) 
Chair: Miriam Ngoka, Programme Officer,  Africa i-Parliaments Action Plan, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations

• Shirley-Ann Fiagome, Deputy Director ICT, Parliament of Ghana
• Owino Harrison, Head of ICT Services, National Assembly of Kenya
• Saseeta Ramsahye-Rakha, Ag. Parliamentary ICT Manager, National Assembly of Mauritius
• Cheryl Pinas, Head of the ICT department, National Assembly of Suriname
• Wabwire Julius, Senior Systems Analyst, Parliament of Uganda
• Michael Mukuka, Principal Clerk ICT, National Assembly of Zambia

Open debate

01:30 pm – 03:00 pm

Lunch break

Aula dei Gruppi

Sala del Mappamondo

03:00 pm – 04:30 pm

Session A3 - Innovations in parliamentary communications (VIDEO)
Chair:  Audrey O’Brien, Clerk of the House of Commons of Canada

• Hayono Isman, Vice-Chairman of the Committee for Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation, House of Representatives of Indonesia
• Stephen Clark, Head of Web Communications, European Parliament
• Andy Wiliamson, Consultant, Inter-Parliamentary Union

Open debate

Session B3 - Technology options  for recording and reporting parliamentary proceedings  (VIDEO)
Chair: Damir Davidovic, Secretary General of the Parliament of Montenegro 

• Saseeta Ramsahye-Rakha, Ag. Parliamentary ICT Manager, National Assembly of Mauritius
• Andreas Sidler, Chief Information Officer, Federal Parliament of Switzerland
• Miano Njoka, Software Developer Officer, Africa i-Parliaments Action Plan, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations

04:30 pm – 05:00 pm

Coffee break

05:00 pm – 06:30 pm

Session A4 - Benefits and values of open data for fostering greater transparency in legislatures (VIDEO)
Chair: Jani Makraduli, Vice President of the Assembly of The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

• Paolo Gentiloni, Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy and Elena Flavia Candia, IT Department Officer, Chamber of Deputies of Italy
• Rogério Ventura Teixeira, Director General, Chamber of Deputies of Brazil
• Robert Reeves, Deputy Clerk, House of Representatives of the United States of America

Session B4 - The added value of libraries to parliamentary information: making content more powerful (VIDEO)
Chair: Sonia L'Heureux, Librarian of the Parliament of Canada

• Raissa Teodori, Secretary of the IFLA Section on Library and Research Services for Parliaments and Head of Office, Joint Parliamentary Library of Italy and Moira Fraser, Member of the Standing Committee of the IFLA Section on Library and Research Services for Parliaments
• Alim Garga, Director of the Library of the National Assembly of Cameroon
• John McDonough, Head of Collections, Library and Research Services, Parliament of Ireland

Report on the outcome of the meeting of the high-level Board of the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament  (VIDEO)
Final statement of the Board

• Rainer Wieland, Vice President of the European Parliament and Co-Chair of the Board of the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament

Aula dei Gruppi

Sala del Mappamondo

09:30 am – 11:00 am

Session A5 - ICT Strategic Planning in Parliament: doing more with less (VIDEO)
Chair: Dick Toornstra, Director of the Office for Promotion of Parliamentary Democracy, European Parliament

• Antonieta Teixeira, Director of the IT Department, Assembly of the Republic of Portugal
• Thomas Taimu, Director of the IT Department, National Assembly of Malawi
• Shmulik Hizkiya, Head of the Information Division, and Oz Cohen, Deputy CIO of the Parliament of Israel 

Session B5 - XML applications and services in Parliament (VIDEO)
Chair: Ravi Poliah, acting Division Manager, Parliament of South Africa

• João Holanda, Director of SSALEP, Prodasen, Senate of Brazil 
• Kirsten Gullickson, Senior Systems Analyst, House of Representatives of the United States of America
• Ashok Hariharan, Software Development Coordinator, Africa i-Parliaments Action Plan, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations

11:00 am – 11:30 am

Coffee break

11:30 am – 01:00 pm

Session A6 - Tools and technologies for meeting mobility requirements (VIDEO)
Chair: Carol Mills, Secretary, Department of Parliamentary Services, Parliament of Australia

• Koo Heekwon, Vice Secretary General, National Assembly of the Republic of Korea
• Joan Miller, Director of Parliamentary ICT of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
• Fakhreddine Aouadi, IT Applications Specialist, European Parliament
  

Session B6 - Inter-parliamentary cooperation to achieve an international legislative and parliamentary XML standard (VIDEO)
Chair: Gherardo Casini , Head, Office of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations

• Enrico Seta, Senior Officer, Research Department, Chamber of Deputies of Italy
• Carlo Simonelli, Coordinator of the ECPRD Area of Interest ICT in Parliaments and Head of Office, Central Systems, Chamber of Deputies of Italy
• Monica Palmirani, Co-Chair of the OASIS LegalDocumentML Committee and Professor of Legal Informatics, School of Law - CIRSFID, University of Bologna

Open debate

01:00 pm – 02:30 pm

Lunch break

02:30 pm – 04:00 pm

Session A7 - Delivering information and documents through tablets and mobile devices (VIDEO)
Chair:  James Rege, Chairman of the Energy,  Information and Communication Committee of the National Assembly of Kenya

• Geert Jan Hamilton, Secretary General, Senate of the Netherlands
• Mukul Pande, Joint Secretary, and Pradeep Chaturvedi, Director, Council of States  of India
• Simon Nicholls, Director of Programmes and Development, Parliamentary ICT, Parliament of the United Kingdom

Open debate

Session B7 - Joint open source projects to deliver quality information (VIDEO)
Chair: Bassel Dohaini, Chairman of the ICT Department, Parliament of Lebanon

• Mauro Fioroni,  acting Head of the IT Department, and Carlo Marchetti, Head of the Information Systems Development Office, Senate of Italy
• Claudio Fabiani, Project Manager, Directorate General for Innovation and Technological Support, European Parliament
• Mario Ruggier, Software Development Officer, Africa i-Parliaments Action Plan, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations

04:00 pm – 04:30 pm

Coffee break

04:30 pm – 06:00 pm

Session A8 - Protecting the IT environment and minimizing external threats  (VIDEO)
Chair: Jesus Alfonso Rodriguez Camargo,, Secretary General, House of Representatives of Colombia

• Hernán Figueroa, Director of Information Technology, Chamber of Deputies of Chile
• Stéphan Aubé, Chief Information Officer, House of Commons of Canada

Session B8 - Options for electronic voting systems in plenary and committee rooms (VIDEO)
Chair: Garreth Ferguson, Information Systems Manager, Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago

• Patricio Alvarez, Director of the IT Department, Senate of Chile
• Marian Botocan, IT Director, Chamber of Deputies of Romania
• Umberto Biagi, Senior Advisor, IT Department, Chamber of Deputies of Italy

06:00 pm – 08:00 pm

Tours of the Chamber of Deputies

Aula dei Gruppi

09:00 am – 10:15 am

Session  A9 – e-Parliament, transparency laws and freedom of access to information (VIDEO)
Chair:  Timothy Hamel-Smith, President, Senate of Trinidad and Tobago

• Javier Barrero, 2nd Vice President  of the Congress of Deputies of Spain
• Päivi Lipponen, Chair of the Committee for the Future, Parliament of Finland
• Julio César Valentín Jiminián, Chair of the Committee on Justice and Human Rights of the Senate of the Dominican Republic
• Sérgio Sampaio Contreiras de Almeida, Secretary General of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil

Session A10 – Being open to citizens’ voices, participation and dialogue:  the formal launch of the Parliamentary Monitoring Organisations’ Declaration on Parliamentary Openness (VIDEO)
Chair: Andrew Mandelbaum, Senior Governance Officer, National Democratic Institute

• María Baron, co-Coordinator, Latin American Network for Legislative Transparency, and Executive Director, Directorio Legislativo Foundation
• John Wonderlich, Policy Director, Sunlight Foundation
• Marwa Abou Dayya, Executive Board Member, Nahwa Al-Muwatiniya (Towards Citizenship)
• Gregor Hackmack, co-Founder and  Chief Executive Officer, ParliamentWatch.org
• Aline Pennisi, Vice President, OpenPolis Association
• Anna Scislowska, Project Coordinator, Association 61

Celebrations of the International Day of Democracy – Promoting Tolerance and Peace (VIDEO)
co-Chairs:
Maurizio Lupi,Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy
Thomas Stelzer, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs of the United Nations

Key note addresses:

• Giulio Terzi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy 
• Abdelwahad Radi, President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union 
• Chukwuemeka Nkem Ihedioha, Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives of Nigeria
• Vannino Chiti, Vice President of the Senate of Italy

Statements by Presidents and Speakers of Parliament

Conclusions

• Thomas Stelzer, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs of the United Nations
• Abdelwahad Radi, President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
• Renzo Lusetti, Member of the Bureau of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy