Opportunities of the Riigikogu Information and Communication Technologies today and tomorrow

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Opportunities of the Riigikogu Information and
Communication Technologies today and tomorrow

• Erkki Leego
• Head of Information Systems and Technology
  department, Chancellery of the Riigikogu
• Erkki.Leego_at_Riigikogu.ee

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Goals for parliament IT service

• Support law making
• Support for MP-s
• Support communication between Parliament and
  Society

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Riigikogus IT systems

• Modern infrastructure
• Main IT development started late (90s)
• Open IT architecture
• Selection of best tools from other parliaments

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Services for MP-s

• Computers / laptop computers
• Secure remote access via Internet
• Internal radio
• Internal TV
• Electronic voting system

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Communication between Parliament and Society (IT)

• Internet WWW-page
• E-mail
• Phones / mobile phones / faxes

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Opportunities today - Internet pages

• Almost everything is available (quickly)
• Almost everything is in database
• Core of IS is EMS (draft law system)
• All about draft laws, agenda, stenographs (1
  hour), voting results (in a moment),
• Guest book and comments to draft laws
• Live web cast of parliament sittings
• Full text search
• Usual data basic background information, MP-s,
  staff (photos), history, buildings
• Other news and information services

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Opportunities tomorrow (IT)

• Integration to government draft law making and
  law publications
• Better Internet structure and search facilities
• Personalization of access (portal) (needs
  keywords for every document)
• Online forums and chat rooms, opinion polls
• Mailing lists
• WAP,
• Knowledge base for draft laws

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Experiences

• Information systems for MP-s provide also
  information for general public
• EMS valuable tool for parliament, but valuable
  information source for general public
• Voting system tool for voting, but results are
  also public interest
• Opportunities versus money

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Conclusions

• Good basic infrastructure and many opportunities
• Better interface to large amount of parliament
  information
• Better use of existing tools
• Moderate development of new opportunities