ECPRD - ICT Working Group Meeting 2009
Rome, Senato della Repubblica - Camera dei deputati, 26-27 November 2009

 

ECPRD - ICT Group Seminar 2009
Rome, Senato della Repubblica - Camera dei deputati, 26-27 November 2009


Programme


Annual meeting of the ECPRD Working Group on Information and Communication Technology

26 - 27 November 2009, Rome, Italy

Sala Capitolare of the Joint Parliamentary Library, Piazza della Minerva 38, Rome

"Advanced IT Services for MPs, Citizens and Parliamentary Cooperation"

Thursday, 26 November 2009 (Sala Capitolare, Piazza della Minerva 38)
08:30 - 09:40

Registration of participants
09:40 - 09:45
  • Opening of the ECPRD Meeting
09:45 - 10:00

Welcome address by the Vice President of the Italian Senate, Sen. Emma Bonino
10:00 - 11:00

Opening Session

The Present and Future of Advanced IT Services for MPs and Citizens

  • Welcome address and Copenhagen Conference Report
    João Viegas (ECPRD ICT Coordinator)
  • Parliamentary ICT inside the Italian Parliament
    Mauro Fioroni, Carlo Marchetti, Ciro D'Urso (Italian Parliament)

  • Future ICT for the British Parliament: Keeping pace with expectations
    Richard Ware (British Parliament)

    Electronic Parliamentary Bench - user and technical perspectives
    Carlos Galrão and Pedro Nascimento (Portugal Parliament)

    Citizens' involvement in law making process
    Birute Leonaviciene (Lithuanian Parliament)
11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00

Resumption of proceedings

13:00 - 14:30

Lunch in the Chamber restaurant (Palazzo del Seminario)
14:30 - 14:45

Welcome address by the Vice President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Hon. Maurizio Lupi
14:45 - 15:30

Special Session

ICT at the Service of Cooperation between Parliaments and Institutions

  • Website and cooperation between Parliaments and Institutions
    Alessandro Palanza (Deputy General Secretary - Italian Chamber of Deputies)
  • IPEX project
    Gerard Hilbert (European Parliament), Gianpaolo Araco, Enrico Stronati (Italian Parliament)
  • ECPRD site
    Gerard Hilbert (European Parliament)
15:30 - 16:00

ICT Group family photo and Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30

Resumption of proceedings
19:00 - 21:30 Tour of the Senate and dinner in the Senate restaurant (Palazzo Madama)
Friday, 27 November 2009 (Sala Capitolare, Piazza della Minerva 38)
09:30 - 11:00

Special Session

Multimedia Services in Parliaments, in cooperation with the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament

  • Connecting Parliament and citizens: the challenge of openness, transparency and representation
    Gherardo Casini (Head, UN/DESA Office and Executive Coordinator of the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament)
  • Parliaments and Communication: Preliminary Results from the 2009 Survey of ICT
    Jeff Griffith (Senior Advisor Global Centre for ICT in Parliament)
  • Video Streaming and Video on Demand facilities available on the Website of the European Parliament
    Bernard Muller (European Parliament)
11:00 - 11:30

Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00

Resumption of proceedings
13:00 - 14:30

Lunch in the Chamber restaurant (Palazzo del Seminario)
14:30 - 15:30

The Present and Future of Advanced IT Services for MPs and Citizens

  • Parliamentary ICT inside the Italian Parliament
    Carlo Simonelli, Umberto Biagi, Elena Candia (Italian Parliament)
  • The separation between ICT and information management/policies
    Piet van Rijn, Serien Wiggers (The Netherlands - The Dutch House of Representatives)
  • Online procedure with digital signature for submitting questions to the Government for written answer. Spanish Senate
    José Ángel Alonso Lopez (Spanish Parliament)
  • Recent developments in the Senate of Belgium
    Roger Devriendt (Senate of Belgium)
15:30 - 16:00

Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00

Closing of proceedings

  • ICT Group Organizative Matters
    João Viegas (ECPRD ICT Coordinator)
17:00 - 18:30 Tour of the Chamber of Deputies