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
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
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
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

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

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

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

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

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

 
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

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

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

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

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)
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
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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