Agenda - World e-Parliament Conference 2008
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25 November 2008
08:00 – 09:30 |
Registration |
09:30 – 11:00 |
Inaugural Session
- Mechtild Rothe, Vice President of the European Parliament
- Katalin Szili, Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary
- Ahmed Fathy Sorour, Speaker of the People's Assembly of Egypt
- Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations
Keynote address
- Anders B. Johnsson, Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
Presentation
- Jeffrey Griffith, Senior Advisor of the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament
The state of ICT in Parliaments: a global perspective
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11.00 – 13.00 |
Plenary session I - Strengthening democratic institutions in the information society: the politics of e-parliament
Chair: Ahmed Fathy Sorour, Speaker of the People's Assembly of Egypt
Discussants:
- Gertrude Mongella, President, Pan-African Parliament
- Silvia-Adriana Ticau, Member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, European Parliament
- Pablo Álvarez, Special Committee on Innovation, Research, Science and Technology, Chamber of Representatives of Uruguay
- Wellars Gasamagera, Member of the ICT Steering Committee of the Senate of Rwanda
- Alexandros Dermentzopoulos, Member of the Permanent Committee on Technology Assessment, Hellenic Parliament
Open discussion
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13.00 – 14.00 |
Lunch break |
14.15 – 15.00 |
Special event: Parliamentary Web TVs
Moderator: Cecilia Matanga, ICT Officer, Southern African Development Community Parliamentary Forum
Presenters:
- Sergio Falcão, Advisor to the Chief Information Officer , Chamber of Deputies of Brazil
- Hernán Figueroa, Director ICT, Chamber of Deputies of Chile
- Michael Shackleton, WebTV, Project Manager, European Parliament
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Parallel sessions |
15.00 – 16.30 |
A - Open standards for managing parliamentary documents: case studies in the use of semantic technologies
Moderator: Flavio Zeni, Chief Technical Advisor, Africa i-Parliaments Action Plan, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
- Kirsten Gullickson, Software Engineer, House of Representatives of the United States of America
- Sergio Falcão, Advisor, IT Department, Chamber of Deputies of Brazil
- Richard Ware, Director Programme and Project Development, Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Choi Jin-Ho, Vice Director General of the Inter-Parliamentary Affairs Bureau, National Assembly of the Republic of Korea
- Ian McDonald, Deputy Principal Clerk, House of Commons of Canada
Open discussion
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B - Websites for parliaments and committees: practices and standards
Moderator: Jeffrey Griffith, Senior Advisor, Global Centre for ICT in Parliament
- Assem Genedy, Director, Information Centre, People’s Assembly of Egypt
- Bernard Muller, Parliamentary Information Systems, Directorate General for Innovation and Technical Support, European Parliament
- Ninoska López, IT Analyst, National Assembly of Nicaragua
- Erik Landaverde, IT Officer, National Assembly of El Salvador
Open discussion on Guidelines for Parliamentary Websites
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C - Meeting the information needs of members of parliament
Moderator: Eliza Roszkowska Öberg, Member of the Parliament of Sweden
- Raissa Teodori, Senior Parliamentary Officer, Library, Senate of the Republic of Italy and Member of the Standing Committee of the IFLA Section on Library and Research Services for Parliaments
- Bridie Nathanson, European Parliaments Research Initiative (EPRI)
- Juha-Pekka Leskinen, IT Manager, Parliament of Finland
- Martin Atkinson, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
Open discussion
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16:30 – 18.00 |
D - Parliamentary documents in a regional context: how open standard can promote harmonization
Moderator: Giovanni Sartor, Professor of Legal Informatics and Legal Theory, European University Institute
- Peter Brown, Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
- Tom M. Van Engers, Professor of Legal Knowledge Management, Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam
- Monica Palmirani, Associate Professor of Legal Informatics, CIRSFID, University of Bologna
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5:00 p.m. Special Event Open Desktop in Parliament
Moderator: Abdoulaye Sene, Member of the National Assembly of Senegal
Presenters:
- Rudy Salles, Vice President, National Assembly of France
- Ganyani Khosa, ICT Director, Parliament of Zimbabwe
- Carlo Marchetti, Counsellor, IT Department, Senate of the Republic of Italy
Open discussion
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E - Engaging citizens to enhance the dialogue: concrete experiences
Moderator: Edward Baliddawa, Chairman of the ICT Committee, Parliament of Uganda
- Ann Macintosh, Professor of Digital Governance, Institute of Communications Studies The University of Leeds
- Soledad Ferrero, Director of the Library of the National Congress of Chile
- Karina Newton, Director of New Media, Office of the Speaker, House of Representatives of the United States of America
- Fernando Milán Zuber, ICT Director, Chamber of Deputies of Mexico
- Jon Gómez Goikolea, Director of Cabinet of the President of the Basque Parliament
Open discussion
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26 November 2008 |
Parallel sessions |
09:00 – 11:00 |
F - Building systems for managing parliamentary documents
Moderator: Chafiq Rachadi, Member of the House of Representatives of Morocco
- Eszter Kertészné Gérecz, Head of the Department for Informatics, National Assembly of Hungary
- Enrico Seta, Head of the International Affairs Office, Research Department, Chamber of Deputies of Italy
- Miguel Ángel Gonzalo, Head, Coordination and Projects Planning Unit, Cabinet of the Secretary General, Congress of Deputies of Spain
- Strashimir Strashimirov, Expert, Directorate of Information and Communication Systems, National Assembly of Bulgaria
- Jamal Darwish, Expert, Federal National Council, United Arab Emirates
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G - IT infrastructures in Parliaments: old and reliable, new and flexible
Moderator: David Addow-Quarshie, Director, ICT Department, Parliament of Ghana
- Ravi Poliah, ICT Manager, National Assembly of South Africa
- Joao Viegas d'Abreu, Coordinator, Working Group on ICT of the European Centre for Parliamentary Research & Documentation (ECPRD) and Director, IT Department, Assembly of the Republic of Portugal
- Hernán Figueroa, Director ICT, Chamber of Deputies of Chile
Open discussion
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H - Organizational challenges: staffing and staff development
Moderator: Jean-Marc Laforest, Director-General for Innovation and Technological Support, European Parliament
- Joan Miller, Director, Parliamentary ICT, Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Rogério Ventura Teixeira, Head of the Center for Qualification and Training, Chamber of Deputies of Brazil
- Mahesh Perera, Director, Information Systems and Management, Parliament of Sri Lanka
Open discussion
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Plenary sessions |
11.00 – 13.00 |
Plenary session II - Meeting the needs of parliaments in developing countries: the role of development partners and the instruments for assistance
Chair: Justin Koumba, Speaker, National Assembly of Congo
Discussants:
- Gherardo Casini, Executive Coordinator, Global Centre for ICT in Parliament
- Linda Mauperon, Member of Cabinet, European Commissioner for Information Society and Media
- Dominique Dellicour, Head of Unit "Governance, Human Rights, Democracy and Gender", EuropAid, European Commission
- Mauro Massoni, Head, Multilateral Office, Italian Development Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Olivier Pierre-Louveaux, Parliamentary Development Expert, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Open discussion
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13.00 – 15.00 |
Lunch break |
14.15 – 15.00 |
Special event IPEX - Interparliamentary EU Information Exchange
Moderator: Dick Toornstra, Director, Office for the Promotion of Parliamentary Democracy, European Parliament
Presenters:
- Alessandro Palanza, Deputy Secretary General, Chamber of Deputies of Italy
- Piotr Nowina-Konopka, Director for Relations with National Parliaments, European Parliament and co-Director, European Centre for Parliamentary Research and Development (ECPRD)
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15.00 – 16.30 |
Plenary session III - Opportunities for regional and global cooperation: benefits and barriers to parliamentary cooperation
Chair: Anders Johnsson, Secretary General, Inter-Parliamentary Union
Discussants:
- 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
- Mohamed Nagib Abou-Zeid, Member of the Shoura Council of Egypt
- Gro Sandgrind, Chair, Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section, IFLA
- Piotr Nowina-Konopka, Director for Relations with National Parliaments, European Parliament and co-Director, European Centre for Parliamentary Research and Development (ECPRD)
- Vladimir Danchev, Head of the Regional Secretariat for Parliamentary Cooperation in South East Europe
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16.30 – 17.00 |
Closing session
- Gherardo Casini, Executive Coordinator, Global Centre for ICT in Parliament
- Mechtild Rothe, Vice President of the European Parliament
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