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This presentation discusses how ICT can help parliamentary institutions overcome the economic and political crisis, and improve transparency and effectiveness. It highlights the Italian Senate's strategies for reducing costs, improving efficiency, and increasing transparency through technological and organizational innovations.
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PARLIAMENTS ON THE NET X“Mobility, Transparency and open parliament: best practices in Parliamentary web sites” ICT for a more Trasparent, Open and EffectiveParliament: how ICT can help face the crisis! Ing. Mauro Fioroni – Servizio Informatica – ItalianSenate Madrid, May 31st – June 1st 2012
Questions • 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?
The admninistrative parliamentary contribution against the crisis There’s onlyone way out: Tecnological, Organizzative and RegolatoryInnovationin orderto • Cut down on parliamentaryrunningcosts • Improveeffectivenessof legislative assemblies and parliamentaryadmninistration • Increasetransparencyofparliamentaryactivities
Italian Senate: how we’re facing the crisis! 1 – Cut down on costs: how? • Towards the“paperless Parliament”: • 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
Italian Senate: how we’re facing the crisis! 2 – Improve effectiveness: how? • 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
Italian Senate: how we’re facing the crisis! 3 – Increase transparency, how? • Compliance to Open Government principles • 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
Italian Senate: how we’re facing the crisis! 2012 Senate “Anticrisis” Project examples: • “Dematerialization” and print-on-demand: all Senators needs for parliamentary work on Intranet! • 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) • …………………………………
“Dematerialization” and print-on-demand: all on Intranet! Authenticated access from https://collaborazione.senato.it COLLABORATION AREA AND SOCIAL NETWORK Tools
Committee Offices use a collaboration tool with web file sharing interface Well known tool, new use Each Committee Off. owns its “area” Content organization is “private” Access is authenticated Senators access the documents securely from tablets/netbooks/PCs WiFi in Committees No more distribution of printed docs Less photocopies copies of dossiers only on-demand printed only pages that they draft “Dematerialization”: all acts and dossier on Intranet! Committee Office Bill 1 Dossier 2 Senator
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
www.senato.it/ebook Download standard predefined ebooks: Last press review All agendas (Assembly and Committees) All last issued acts … Selectdocumentsof interest and create anebook “on demand” Bills Reports Agendas Non-legislativedocs …
Anyquestionsabout the future parliaments and the crisis? In any case … betternot stay stillwaiting! .. As them: Thanksforyourattention! mauro.fioroni@senato.it