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A VIRTUAL DESKTOP TO SUPPORT THE MOBILE ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE.Piloting in the Lithuanian Parliament

Birutė LeonavičienėAnalystDepartment of Information Technologies and TelecommunicationsSEIMAS of the REPUBLIC of LITHUANIA

ECPRD ICT Meeting18 - 19 October 2007, Ljubljana (Slovenia)

A virtual desktop to support the mobile elected representative (eRepresentative)

Objective

Make legislative services more effectiveproviding a secure and mobile working enivonment for elected representatives.

A virtual desktop to support the mobile elected representative

eRepresentative desktop must support MPs to:

•Obtain personalised, specific, filtered data ‘anywhere, any place and any time’;

•Collaborate with each other securely and conveniently;

• Influence the legislative process in a timely convenient and secure manner.

eRrepresentative provide

•Inter-assembly search and retrieval•Track committee legislative actions•Committee events notification•Secure discussion space•Remote e-polling for committees•E-voting.

A virtual desktop to support the mobile elected representative

Why we are interested in ... ?

Information System of the Seimas

Legal informatio

n subsystem

Subsystem of

plenary sittings

Subsystem for

audio/video recording

and management

Subsystem of

photo/ video

document archiveTHE SEIMAS OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA

SOCIETY (Citizens)

INTERNET

Website content management system

News agencies

Public information subsystem

s

•Subsystem for storage, management and search of information provided by the media and information agencies; •Subsystem for classification support of the IS;•Correspondence management subsystem; •Subsystems to ensure support and security of internal operations of the Seimas.

Internal information subsystems

A virtual desktop to support the mobile elected representativeThe reasons to take part in e-Representative:

• There is a need for collaborative tool for committee members to share views on issues from in-person committee meetings;

• There is a need to extend mobile platform for MPs;

• There is a need to increase MPs’ opportunities to consider matters related to draft proposals in other Parliaments’ experiences.

A virtual desktop to support the mobile elected representativeServices to be piloted: •Committee event notifications;•Track committee legislative actions;•Inter-assembly search and retrieval.

A virtual desktop to support the mobile elected representativeIntended Committee•eRepresentative was presented to the

Committee of the Development of Information Society;

•Solid decision to take part in.•User panel:

7 MPs;3 Advisers;~3 observers (ITTD).

Other interested in MPs.

Information System of the Seimas + eRepresentative

Legal informatio

n subsystem

Subsystem of

plenary sittings

Subsystem for audio/video recording and management

Subsystem of

photo/ video

document archive

Website content management system

eRepresentative

Public information subsystem

s

Internal information subsystem

s

Other subsystems

e-Representative will be incorporated into existing IS

Information System of the Seimas + eRepresentative

What was done?•Software tools for exchanging data

between the Seimas Legal Acts database and the eRepresentative repository were designed.

Information System of the Seimas eRepresentative

Available content:▫ Laws;▫ Decisions.

Commitee’s documents:▫ Agendas;▫ Minutes;▫ Other working documents.

A virtual desktop to support the mobile elected representative

•May, 2007 – alfa version was released.•November, 2007 – beta version expected.

Expectations of eRepresentative...• Committee Event Notification and Committee

Workspace would enable committee members to be better prepared for meetings by increasing opportunities to share and consider amendments and their colleagues’ positions on related issues.

• Inter-parliamentary search agent increases representatives’ opportunities to consider matters related to draft proposals, drawing on other parliaments’ experiences.

A virtual desktop to support the mobile elected representative

Thank you for attention!

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