The ten-year framework of the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament 2011 - 2020 ECPRD Working Group on ICT Annual Meeting 18-19 November 2010 Bucharest,

The ten-year framework of the

Global Centre for ICT in Parliament

2011 - 2020

ECPRD Working Group on ICT Annual Meeting

18-19 November 2010Bucharest, Romania

Origins

• The Global Centre was launched in 2005, with a five year plan, at the World Summit on the Information Society.

• It became operational in 2006.

• It is a joint initiative of the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union supported by a core group of Parliaments and other partners.

• Action Line C1 – The role of public governance authorities in the promotion of ICT for development

• ECOSOC, through the Commission on Science and Technology for Development

• World Summit on the Information Society review 2010 and 2015, and beyond

Link to World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)

Link to the 2005 UN World Summit

•Governance

•Technology for development

•Global partnerships

•and

•(art. 171) .. call for strengthened cooperation between the United Nations and national and regional parliaments, in particular through the Inter-Parliamentary Union...

Mission

•To strengthen the role and capacity of Parliaments in the development of a conducive environment for an inclusive and equitable Information Society

•To help Parliaments harness the potential of ICT to modernize parliamentary processes and practices, improve citizens’ participation and inter-parliamentary cooperation

New mandate•The Global Centre is guided by a high-level Board composed of the UN, the IPU and nine Speakers of Parliament.

•In Budapest, in March 2009, the Board identified guiding principles for the international community for the period 2010 – 2020. They were endorsed in Washington at the World e-Parliament Conference 2009.

•The Board indicated that in the next years the Centre’s work shall be guided by the strategic goals embedded in these guiding principles

e-Parliament Framework

•The e-Parliament Framework 2010-2020 is centered on five key areas that are targeted for specific action over the next ten years .

•The World e-Parliament Report 2010, based on the results of the 2009 Global Survey, provides indicators of the current status of parliaments with respect to these areas (Chapter 10); future surveys will assess progress in subsequent years.

•The Report made it clear that only by acting collectively parliaments can attain the outlined achievements

•Establish national and international policies to create an equitable and inclusive information society (4 strategic goals)

•Enhance the connection between legislatures and constituencies (1 strategic goal)

•Improve the equality of access to the law and the lawmaking process of the country (1 strategic goal)

The five challenges (2011 – 2020)

•Ensure that all legislatures around the world can harness ICT tools in the service of the legislative, oversight and representative functions (5 strategic goals)

•Develop a more robust and well coordinated programme of technical assistance (3 strategic goals)

The five challenges (2011 – 2020)

•For each of the five areas, the Centre identified those activities which could best contribute to the achievement of the strategic goals

•The criteria is to build on the added value that the Centre’s activities can bring to the international community, taking into consideration the successful experience of the past years

Centre’s activities

•To strengthen the role and capacity of Parliaments in the development of a conducive environment for an inclusive and equitable Information Society

•To help Parliaments harness the potential of ICT to modernize parliamentary processes and practices, improve citizens’ participation and inter-parliamentary cooperation

Mission 2011 – 2020(same as before)

• The Centre will continue to promote a structured dialogue with all stakeholders in achieving its mission

• The Centre will continue to act as a catalyst and clearing house for information, research, innovation and technology in parliament, as well as a hub for technical assistance, with the purpose of sharing experiences and best practices.

• The Centre will not substitute and overlap activities of other organizations, but rather multiply their effects when possible.

Three important values

• High-level Board annual meetings

• Advisory Committee annual meetings (advisors of Board members)

• Donor Review Group annual meetings (public and private sector)

• External evaluation every 2.5 years

Governance and reviews

• Increased capacity of parliaments to develop Information Society related policies

• Increased access to international repositories of legal and policy material related to the Information Society and to ICT in Parliament

• Improved access by citizens to the work of parliaments and means of participation in the political dialogue

Expected accomplishments 2011 - 2020

• Improved citizens’ access to the law and enhanced integration of information and documents

• Increased capacity of parliamentary administrations to use and integrate ICT in parliamentary processes

• Increased capacity of parliaments to elaborate strategic plans for the use of ICT

Expected accomplishments 2011 - 2020

• Enhanced exchange of information, experiences and practices among parliaments at the international level

• Increased coordination of external assistance• In addition, more effective monitoring of the

progresses at the global level on the overall guiding strategy

Expected accomplishments 2011 - 2020

Implementation strategy

• Analysis and research services

• Networking, coordination and knowledge sharing services

• Advocacy, awareness and information services

• Capacity development and advisory services

4 functional areas of work

Global Centre’s key activities (1)

Biennual meetings of MPs on the Information Society (global) and biennual meetings of MPs at regional level

Fostering hearings at national level on the status of the information society

Promoting the recognition of the contribution of parliaments in the UN WSIS process

Development and maintenance of the legal repository (portal) + library of reports/docs

Key activities (2) Biennial World e-Parliament Conferences Biennial Global Surveys/questionnaires Biennial World e-Parliament Reports Two trainings each year (+ on-line trainings) Support to parliamentary networks (policy

workshops + initial operations + advisory services)

Guidelines/Handbooks as a result of Working Group mechanisms with parliamentary experts

Key activities (3)

Advisory services to parliaments on request (areas: strategic planning, infrastructures, open standards, new media, recording of proceedings, websites, etc.)

Support to collaborative efforts among parliaments (facilitating twinning arrangements, development of applications, etc.)

Annual consultative meeting with donors, partners and on line mapping of activities

Next challenges (1)

Global Survey 2007 (105 Parliaments)World e-Parliament Report 2008 Global Survey 2009 (134 Parliaments)World e-Parliament Report 2010Global Survey 2011 (??? Parliaments)World e-Parliament Report 2012

Next challenges (2)

Working Group on Technological Options for Capturing and Reporting Parliamentary Proceedings (Handbook as expected outcome in 2011)

Working Group on ICT-based Parliamentary Libraries (Handbook as expected outcome in 2011 with IFLA)

Working Group on ICT Strategic Planning in Parliament (Guidelines as expected oucome 2011)

Next challenges (3)

Supporting the establishment of a formal parliamentary network in Latin America and the Caribbean (2011-2012)

Working Group on Open Standards and XML (Handbook as expected outcome in 2012)

World e-Parliament Conference 2012 Strenthening coherence and coordination of

assistance at global level

ECPRD and the Global Centre

Participate in the questionnaire on “parliamentary proceedings” (30 received, but target of 100 assemblies by January 2011)

Participate in the Global Survey 2011 towards the World e-Parliament Report 2012

Support the growth of the Africa Parliamentary Knowledge Network and the establishment of the network in Latin America and the Caribbean

Lend technical expertise to the Global Centre for assistance to parliaments

Joint work with ECPRD on emerging issues

Information security (new WG for a Handbook?) Document Management System for the

administration of requests to libraries and research services (scope for joint collaborative development/open source ?)

New solutions for delivering documents to MPs (WG with the IFLA Section on Parliamentary Libraries and Research Services ?)

Some references

www.wsis.int (UN WSIS process) www.ictparliament.org (Global Centre) www.apkn.org (Africa’s network) www.akomantoso.org (XML schema) www.bungeni.org (open source PIS)