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Title: Parliaments and the Evolving Information Society Jane Bortnick Griffith Senior Advisor Global Centre


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Parliaments and the Evolving Information
SocietyJane Bortnick GriffithSenior
AdvisorGlobal Centre for ICT in Parliament
Parliamentary Forum Shaping the Information
Society the role of Parliaments and
Legislators 14 15 May 2008 - Palais des
Nations, Geneva

2
Framework
  • Parliaments and the WSIS process
  • Unique parliamentary roles
  • Legislative mechanisms
  • Information society policy issues
  • International collaboration

3
WSIS Goals
  • build a people-centered, inclusive and
    development-oriented Information Society, where
    everyone can create, access, utilize and share
    information and knowledge

4
World e-Parliament Report 2008
  • Parliaments must
  • exercise strong leadership in deploying ICT
  • develop a legal structure that fosters broad
    access to information, whiles ensuring freedom of
    expression, privacy and security

5
Politics of E-Parliament
  • Making information public and free
  • Applying open standards to legislative material
  • Adopting accessibility standards for websites
  • Providing interactive communication channels for
    citizens

6
Unique Role of Parliaments
  • Central institution representing the people in a
    democracy
  • Critical role in advancing social and political
    values that benefit all
  • Guarantors of the democratic values underpinning
    the information society

7
Parliamentary Responsibilities
  • Foster political environment conducive to
    equality and inclusiveness
  • Ensure all segments are represented
  • Protect fundamental rights

8
Challenges for Parliaments
  • Not proactive institutions
  • Committee structure not conducive to addressing
    cross-cutting issues
  • Lack of resources

9
Government
Programs
Policies
Regulations
Information Society
Information Society
Information Society
10
Parliament
Legislation
Funding
Oversight
11
Icelands Vision of the Information Society
12
Parliamentary Committees
  • Information, Computerisation and the Media
  • Committee for the Future
  • Communications and Informatics
  • Research, Innovation and Technology
  • Information Technology
  • Justice
  • Education and Science
  • Industry, Science, and Technology
  • Infrastructure

13
Committee Mechanisms
  • Hearings
  • Exploratory
  • Legislative
  • Oversight
  • Committee reports

14
Overview of Information Society Policy Issues
  • Broad spectrum of issues
  • Provide snapshot of topics members need to
    address
  • Many of same challenges
  • Need to apply understanding of own environment

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ICT Development
  • Government programs and subsidies
  • Incentives for private sector investment
  • Foreign investment policies
  • Focus on improving human resources capacity with
    ICT skills
  • Public-private partnerships

17
Competition and Regulation
  • Increased competition yields
  • greater efficiency
  • improved services
  • reduced consumer costs
  • Transitioning monopolies to competition
  • Ensuring competition in new services
  • Creating independent regulatory bodies
  • Facilitating licensing procedures

18
Expanding Infrastructure and Connectivity
  • Reaching underserved communities
  • Universal service funds, loan guarantees, tax
    credits
  • Extending broadband penetration

19
Ensuring Equitable Access to ICT and Information
Resources
  • Public Internet access points
  • Support for schools and libraries
  • Access to high quality information
  • Making public sector information available
  • Government more transparent, efficient
  • Public access to results of government research
  • Reuse of government information to build
    information products and services industries

20
Intellectual Property
  • Maintain incentives for innovation and investment
    in creative products
  • Ensure legitimate access to and use of digital
    material
  • Ongoing challenges of new ICT capabilities
  • Capitalize on value of broad online distribution
  • New approaches (www.creativecommons.org)

21
Guaranteeing Citizen Rights
  • Freedom of expression in the Internet environment
  • Maintaining net neutrality
  • Governmental controls
  • Commercial/ISP controls
  • Filtering vs. openness

22
Privacy
  • Growing amount of personal data captured in
    digital form
  • Increased access through networks
  • Comprehensive data protection laws vs. sector
    approach
  • Threats from new technologies, technology
    convergence, global exchange

23
Security
  • ICT exploited for criminal activity
  • Range of problems
  • Spam
  • Identity theft
  • Denial of service
  • Attacks on infrastructure
  • Continually evolving threats
  • Multiple stakeholders, international dimension

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International Collaboration Needed
  • Global reach of Internet
  • Harmonization of laws among countries
  • Engagement with other parliaments, international
    organizations
  • WSIS implementation
  • Global Centre for ICT in Parliament
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