Programme

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ANNOTATED AGENDA

Tuesday 28 June

	Plenary session
08:00 – 09:00	Registration
09:30 – 10:00	Opening ceremony Mr. Ramón Farías, Member of the Chamber of Deputies, Chile Mr. Martin Chungong, Secretary General, Inter-Parliamentary Union H.E. Mr. Osvaldo Andrade, Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Chile
10:00 – 11:00	Launch of the World e-Parliament Report 2016 The findings of the World e-Parliament Report 2016 show how digital and social technologies have led to and supported deep changes in the operational environment and cultural landscape of parliaments. The digital parliament is now a living entity that is linked to those it serves in ways that were hard to imagine when the first World e-Parliament Report was published in 2008. Moderator: Mr. Ramón Farías, Member of the Chamber of Deputies, Chile Mr. Andy Williamson, author, World e-Parliament Report 2016
11.00 - 11:30	Coffee
	Policy Track	Technical track
11.30-13.00	Discussion of findings of World e-Parliament Report Moderator: Mr. Ramón Farías, Member of the Chamber of Deputies, Chile Mr. Mushahidullah Khan, Senator, Pakistan Mr. Javier de Andrés Blasco, Director of ICT, Chamber of Deputies, Spain Ms. María Baron, Executive Director, Fundación Directorio Legislativo, Argentina	ICT strategic planning The challenges parliaments face are not simply ones of technology adoption; many are strategic and need to be addressed at a systemic level. To resolve this challenge, there needs to be a stronger focus on articulating, addressing and resolving the strategic barriers. Moderator: Mr. Soufiane Ben Moussa, Chief Technology Officer, House of Commons, Canada Mr. Rob Greig, Director of Parliamentary Digital Service, United Kingdom Mr Than Zaw Oo, Director, ICT Directorate, and Mr. Oakkar Maung, Union Hluttaw, Myanmar Mr. Owino Harrison, Chief ICT Officer, Parliament, Kenya
	12.30 Innovation in parliaments #1 Each day, a 30-minute segment will be opened for parliaments that wish to present one recent innovation. Each parliament will have a maximum of 5 minutes to show to their peers what they have done, why and how they have done it, and what impact the innovation has had. Also during this segment, there will be a daily update on progress in the Hackathon. Mr. Cristiano Ferri Soares de Faria, Hackathon Coordinator Ms. Elina Forsström, Head of IT, Parliament, Finland Mr. Rovil Kumar, Senior IT Officer, Parliament, Fiji
13:00 – 14:30	Lunch
14:30 – 16:00	The goals of an “e-parliament” today It is increasingly accepted that governance institutions aren’t changing/adapting as quickly as society and technology. The challenge for parliaments in the coming decades will involve being more nimble in the face of rapid socio-economic and technological change. This session will focus on what parliaments are, or need to be, doing to prepare themselves. Moderator: Mr. Najib El Khadi, Secretary General, Chamber of Representatives, Morocco Mr. Cedric Frolick, Member of the National Assembly, South Africa Mr. Patrice Martin-Lalande, Member of the National Assembly, France Ms. Birgitta Jónsdottir, Member of Parliament, Iceland	Legislative document management Digital technologies and their underlying processes now allow parliaments to create systems that underpin the legislative, representative and oversight work of parliaments. This session looks at recent innovations in the field of legislative document management, including developments on open standards, and both XML- and non-XML based systems. Moderator: Mr. Carlo Marchetti, Head of Information Systems Development, Senate, Italy Mr. Esteban Sanchez, Head of Technology Operations, Chamber of Deputies, Chile Ms. Shirley-Ann Fiagome, ICT Director, Parliament, Ghana Mr. János Tóth, Head of IT Department, Parliament, Hungary
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee
16:30 – 18:00	Digital parliamentarians: Tools, opportunities and challenges for elected representatives This session will investigate the technologies being used by parliamentarians inside and outside the parliamentary chamber to connect with citizens, including young people. It will also touch on ways to build awareness and create incentives for all parliamentarians to use digital technologies. Moderator: Mr. Javier de Andrés Blasco, Director of ICT, Chamber of Deputies, Spain Mr. Lebbius Tobias, Member of the National Assembly, Namibia Mr. Rómulo Mesquita, Director General, Chamber of Deputies, Brazil	Workshop: Creating ICT infrastructure in a low-resource environment A hands-on session that will put participants to work, giving them an opportunity to discuss how parliaments can develop appropriate ICT systems in a situation of low budgets and low commercial contracting capacity. Moderator: Mr. Soufiane Ben Moussa, Chief Technology Officer, House of Commons, Canada

Wednesday 29 June

	Policy Track	Technical track
09:00 – 10:30	Openness: building commitment to openness It is perhaps too early to say that openness is ‘business as usual’ for parliaments, but it is certainly clear that making information accessible to people outside parliament is increasingly happening in digital, and specifically machine-readable, ways. The session will explore new and emerging forms of commitment to openness in legislation and parliamentary rules and practices. Moderator: Mr. Duarte Pacheco, Member of Parliament, Portugal Mr. Hernán Larraín, Senator, Chile Ms. Hajer Bouzemmi, Member of Parliament, Tunisia Mr. Robert Reeves, Deputy Clerk, House of Representatives, United States of America Ms. María Baron, Executive Director, Fundación Directorio Legislativo, Argentina	Recent developments in parliamentary websites The website has become one of the primary channels for parliaments to communicate, share information and engage with the public. Today, the proliferation of mobile devices, the social web and higher bandwidth capabilities mean that websites increasingly include audio, video, data, are more interactive and are designed to work cleanly on a wide range of devices. This increases the complexity of planning, managing and resourcing a parliament’s web-estate, as well as the costs of operating it. Moderator: Mr James Rege, Member of Parliament, Kenya Mr. Duo Shuhua, Deputy Secretary-General of the Standing Committee of the National People´s Congress, China Ms. Constanza Sozzani, Coordinator Web Content, and Ms. Patricia Vaca, Sub-Director, Content, Senate, Argentina Mr. Erdinal Hendradjaja, Parliament, Indonesia
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee
11:00 – 13.00	Openness: making use of open data At first, it was assumed that if parliaments made their data available, people would come and get it. More recently, it has become clear that there is still much to do to make open data “profitable” and usable in a constant and reliable way. The session will also question parliament’s ability to access and use data from the executive branch of government and elsewhere in its own research activities. Moderator: Ms. Kirsten Gullickson, Senior Systems Analyst, House of Representatives, United States of America Ms. Dubravka Filipovski, Member of Parliament, Serbia Mr. Rodrigo Obrador, Head, Department of Legislative Services and Documentaries, and Ms. Karem Orrego, Section Coordinator, History of Law and Parliamentary Work, Library of Congress, Chile Mr. Peter Reichstädter, CIO, Parliament, Austria	Workshop: Citizen engagement strategies and social media A hands-on session to help parliaments analyze their citizen engagement strategies. Social media is now more widely used amongst parliaments than third-party television or radio. Yet the use of social media tools within parliaments has to be appropriate, and finding the balance with traditional methods of engagement takes practice and fine-tuning. Facilitator: Mr. Andy Williamson, author, World e-Parliament Report 2016
11:00 – 13.00	12.30: Innovation in parliaments #2; Hackathon update Mr. Duo Shuhua, Deputy Secretary-General of the Standing Committee of the National People´s Congress, China Mr. Xavier Armendariz, ICT coordinator, National Assembly, Ecuador Mr. Fakhreddine Aouadi, Innovation Officer, European Parliament Mr. Cristiano Ferri Soares de Faria, Hackathon Coordinator
13:00 – 14:30	Lunch
14:30 – 16:00	Trends in citizen input to the work of parliament Numerous participatory processes are being developed in law-making. What are the most effective ways to connect parliaments and citizens? To what extent do these processes address the digital divide within countries, which leaves many men and women feeling angry and excluded from the political process? Moderator: Ms. Emma Allen, Director of Digital Development, Parliament, United Kingdom Mr. Dae-Hyun Kim, Deputy Secretary-General, National Assembly, Republic of Korea Ms. Rebecca Rumbul, Head of Research, MySociety Ms. María Luisa Sotomayor, U-Report / UNICEF Global Innovation Center	Cyber security Cyber security is of increasing importance at the current time. This session will look at the steps parliaments are taking to guarantee the integrity of their proceedings and consultations. Moderator: Ms. Antonieta Teixeira, Director of Informatics Centre, National Assembly, Portugal Mr. Ian McKenzie, Assistant Secretary, Infrastructure and Services Branch, ICT Division, Parliament, Australia Mr. Mahesh Perera, ICT Director Parliament, Sri Lanka Mr. János Tóth, Head of IT Department, Parliament, Hungary
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee
16:30 – 18:00	Tour of Parliament buildings, and demonstration of the e-parliament technologies in Chile

Thursday 30 June

	Policy Track	Technical track
09:00 – 10:30	Working together: national partnerships There is a range of models for good collaboration between parliaments, civil society and other partners, including multi-party working groups, parliamentary inquiries, formal commissions and other mechanisms. This session will help to identify lessons learned in establishing successful partnerships. Moderator: Mr. Pierre Rodrigue, Principal Clerk House of Commons, Canada Mr. Giorgi Kldiashvili, Institute for Development of Freedom of Information, Georgia Mr. Pedro Markun, LabHacker, Brazil Mr. Juan Manuel Casanueva, SocialTIC, Mexico	Unconference The Unconference opens a space for small group discussions with a focus on problem-solving and practical solutions.
		Plenary room	Committee room
		Session #1: Complementary strategies between web and social media + Proposed by: Ms. Constanza Cozzani, Coordinator web content, & Ms. Patricia Vaca, Sub-director content, Senate, Argentina	Session #1: Making citizen participation count + Proposed by: Ms. Maria Luisa Sotomayor, U-Report / UNICEF Global Innovation Center
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee
11:00 – 13:00	Working together: global and regional collaboration Globalization of politics requires parliaments all over the world to cooperate and exchange information. The session will learn about existing forms of inter-parliamentary collaboration, and discuss perspectives for developing common approaches, including open source software solutions, and open standards for legislative document management, including XML. Moderator: Mr Pierfranceso Sabbatucci, European Parliament Mr. Greg Brown, National Democratic Institute Ms. Sylvia Tosar, DG, Chair of TCIP, Parliament, Uruguay	Session #2: Investing in cloud technology + Proposed by: Moez Kloula, ICT Expert, UNDP Tunisia Session #3: e-Petitions + Proposed by: Mr. Bouchra Zouini, Press and Communications Division, Chamber of Councils, Morocco	Session #2: Designing reusable data for PMOs and others. + Proposed by: Kirsten Gullickson, Systems Analyst, US House of Representatives, and Mr. Teddy Nyambe, Head of IT, National Assembly, Zambia Session #3: Making use of Big Data + Proposed by: Mahdi Faghihi, ICT manager, Islamic Parliament of Iran
	12:30 Innovation in parliaments #3 Mr. Teo Kok Seong, Member of Parliament, Malaysia Mr. Owino Harrison, Chief ICT Officer, Parliament, Kenya Mr. Ian McKenzie, Assistant Secretary, Infrastructure and Services Branch, ICT Division, Parliament, Australia Mr. Emanuel Correia, Director of Informatics, Parliament, Cabo Verde
13:00 – 14:30	Lunch
	Plenary session
14:30 – 15:30	Feedback from the conference; lessons learned and future perspectives; presentation of the results of the Hackathon Moderator: Mr. Ramón Farías, Member of the Chamber of Deputies, Chile Mr. Andy Williamson, lead author, World e-Parliament Report 2016 Mr. Cristiano Ferri Soares de Faria, Hackathon Coordinator
15:30 – 16:00	Conclusions and closing ceremony Mr. Ramón Farías, Member of the Chamber of Deputies, Chile Mr. Martin Chungong, Secretary General, Inter-Parliamentary Union