PARLIAMENTS ON THE NET X
“Mobility, Transparency and open parliament: best practices in
Parliamentary web sites”
ICT for a more Trasparent, Open
and Effective Parliament:
how ICT can help face the crisis!
Ing. Mauro Fioroni – Servizio Informatica – Italian Senate
Madrid, May 31st – June 1st 2012
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Questions
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Economic crisis, political crisis and crisis
in trust of parliamentary institutions:
how can we get out?
What contribution can be given by
parliamentary administrations to
overcome the forementioned crisis?
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The admninistrative parliamentary
contribution against the crisis
There’s only one way out:
Tecnological, Organizzative and
Regolatory Innovation in order to
1. Cut down on parliamentary running
costs
2. Improve effectiveness of legislative
assemblies and parliamentary
admninistration
3. Increase transparency of
parliamentary activities
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Italian Senate: how we’re facing the crisis!
1 – Cut down on costs: how?
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Towards the“paperless Parliament”:
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From 2013 only print-on-demand:
• No predefined official acts in circulation
• From 115 to 20 million copies (-83%)
• Press review only on-line
Electronic subscription to official acts (bills,
amendments, and so on ..)
• dossier and acts for parliamentary sittings available in
real time on Intranet
Cloud computing and Virtual desktop
Functional integration and sinergy between the Houses
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Italian Senate: how we’re facing the crisis!
2 – Improve effectiveness: how?
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Process reengineering in the administrative area
(new documental system)
New Intranet Portal for parliamentary work
(emphasis on new collaboration and social
networking tools)
Increasing electronic exchange amongst other
institutions
E-Learning
Fewer employees (from 1050 to 900) with a block
on new public competitions
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Italian Senate: how we’re facing the crisis!
3 – Increase transparency, how?
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Compliance to Open Government principles
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The whole Information System on the web
New Linked Open Data services (dati.senato.it)
Improve usability of on-line parliamentary
services (mobile computing, E-book, easy
access to and from social networks, ..)
Improve the parliamentary WebTV
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Italian Senate: how we’re facing the crisis!
2012 Senate “Anticrisis” Project examples:
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“Dematerialization” and print-on-demand: all Senators
needs for parliamentary work on Intranet!
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Sitting documentation available on netbook/tablet via WiFi
both in the Hall and in the Commissions
Integrated agendas
Electronic signature to subscribe to acts
All electronic acts processed in standard XML format during
parliamentary work
The new Intranet Portal: collaboration and social
networking on the internal network
All parliamentary acts in E-book format (project Scriba)
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“Dematerialization” and print-on-demand:
all on Intranet!
Authenticated access from
https://collaborazione.senato.it
COLLABORATION AREA AND
SOCIAL NETWORK Tools
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“Dematerialization”:
all acts and dossier on Intranet!
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Committee Office
Committee Offices use a
collaboration tool with web file
sharing interface
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Bill 1
Dossier 2
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Each Committee Off. owns its
“area”
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WiFi in Committees
No more distribution of printed
docs
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Senator
Content organization is “private”
Access is authenticated
Senators access the documents
securely from
tablets/netbooks/PCs
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Well known tool, new use
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Less photocopies
copies of dossiers only on-demand
printed only pages that they draft
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Digital Signature
to subscribe Parliamentary Acts
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The New Intranet Portal
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The new Intranet Portal(2)
Agenda Senato
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The new Intranet Portal(3)
The integrated Agenda
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All parliamentary acts in E-book format
Project Scriba
An Open Source Engine
to generate e-books of
parliamentary documentation in
ePub format starting from HTML,
XHTML, XML, PDF documents
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www.senato.it/ebook
Download standard predefined
ebooks:
Last press review
All agendas (Assembly and Committees)
All last issued acts
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Select documents of
interest and create an
ebook “on demand”
Bills
Reports
Agendas
Non-legislative docs
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Share parliamentary resources
on Social Networks
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Any questions about the future parliaments
and the crisis?
In any case … better not stay still waiting! .. As them:
Thanks for your attention!
[email protected]
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