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eRepresentative is co-financed under the IST Programme of the European CommissionPartners: Catalonian, Dutch, Hungarian and Lithuanian parliament, Westmeath County Council, Napier

University ITC, HP, Scytl and Gov2U



• Make systems able to share information on a broad enough scale

• Allow representatives to work away from Parliament with more robust security

• Provide the right information at the right time, applying ‘intelligent agent’ technologies in the Parliamentary environment

• Stimulate inter-assembly collaboration by enabling them to share documents

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A virtual desktop to support the mobile elected representative

February 2006 – January 2008

EC contract FP6-2004-26985



• Work remote, save and easy in legislative process, for example drafting a law, discussing amendments and voting.

• Smart technology to manage data overloads.

• Enable seamless use ‘virtual’ desktop with current parliaments’ systems and workflow.

• Innovative, user-friendly and mobile-capable security for collaboration for legislative documents, while meeting needs on integrity, authenticity and privacy

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• Make systems able to share information on a broad enough scale

• Allow representatives to work away from Parliament with more robust security

• Provide the right information at the right time, applying ‘intelligent agent’ technologies in the Parliamentary environment

• Stimulate inter-assembly collaboration by enabling them to share documents

Inn

ovati

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• Work remote, save and easy in legislative process, for example drafting a law, discussing amendments and voting.

• Smart technology to manage data overloads.

• Enable seamless use ‘virtual’ desktop with current parliaments’ systems and workflow.

• Innovative, user-friendly and mobile-capable security for collaboration for legislative documents, while meeting needs on integrity, authenticity and privacy

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A virtual desktop to support the mobile elected representative





Some technical details



Functions vs. Goals(Innovative solution for an representative)

Saves time

(Goal 1)

Needs / adds collaboration(Goal 2)

Remote secure influence (Goal 3)

Committee legislative actions Yes Yes Yes

Secure discussion space Yes Yes Yes

Inter-parliamentary search agent Yes Yes

Committee events notification Yes Yes Yes

E-voting for individual ballots Yes Yes

Remote e-polling for committees Yes Yes Yes

The innovation is: 1) Representatives can do things differently or new 2) Representatives can do all things integrated



Technical View – eRep data entities

dir(LDAP)

docsvote

legislativesystemsdir docs,

metadataa.o.b

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docs

docsany

othersystem

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Technical View – eRep data entities

Directory (LDAP)

Votes DSpace any other business

local legislative systems

legal actions membersgroupscommitteesroles

content docs committee data (what, content, decisions)session data

collaboration groupsgroup members

documentsopinionspolls

collab. space- docs- authoring- discussions

interparlia-mentary search

members accessible european sites

doc metadata committee topics

event notification

vote periodpoll period

new docs of interest

pub/sub info committee issues, events, topics

e-vote votes vote results pub/sub votes start/closing voting period

e-poll poll votes poll results pub/sub polls

Representatives can do things differently or new



Technical Modelmobile GUI

agents/access prov

dir docsvote

middleware – information provider

API APIAPIAPI

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•get documents•receive notifications•search all libraries

•write opinions•get opinions•set profile for interest•poll on issues•archive documents

•poll on issue•vote on issue

mobile platform Server platform



Technical View – Platform vs. functionality

PDAOnline (Smartphone)

laptop mobilephone

Blackberry

legal actions (Read)

√ x √ x - read

collabora-tion (discuss) 1)

√ x √ x - √ discuss

interparl. search - √ x - -

event notificat. √ x (not secure) √ x √ x (sms) √ x

e-vote √ x (not secure) √ x xnot secure

e-poll √ x (not secure) √ x xnot secure

1) full collaboration = discussion + sharing docs + authoring docsOnly the √ indicated functions of selected mobile devices will be supported(principle 6)



GUI+Legacy Interface possibilities: 1+1=2?

DSpace Alfresco Pnyx Etc . . .

Legacy Legacy Legacy

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Discuss

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Participate?

• Test and accepting (members)• Workshop 13 December Budapest “Mobility for

MP’s…. Human decision making”• Trans European User Group. Discussion on

specific items via internet (forum)• Adapting technology• Website: www.erepresentative.org

http://www.erepresentative.org/



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