08:00-09:00

Registration

09:30-10:30

Inaugural Session

• H.E. Kang Chang-hee, Speaker of the National Assembly, Republic of Korea
• Mr. Martin Chungong, Secretary General elect of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (French)

10:30-11:30

Debate: Progress in e-Parliaments since 2007

Moderator: Mr. Ramon Farias, Member of the Chamber of Deputies, Chile

• Mr. Philippe Kaltenbach, Senator, France
• Mr. Kapembwa Simbao, Member of the National Assembly, Zambia
• Ms. Gabriela Cuevas Barron, Senator, Mexico

11:30-13:00

Lessons learned on the role of ICT in making Parliament more open, accessible, accountable and effective

Moderator: Mr. Edward Doe Adjaho, Speaker of Parliament, Ghana

• Mr. Javier Barrero Lòpez, Second Vice-President of the Congress of Deputies, Spain
• Mr. Jhun Hajin (35MB), Member of the National Assembly, Republic of Korea
• Mr. Li Lianning, Member and Deputy Secretary General of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, China

13:00-14:30

Lunch

14:30-16:00

Policies on access to open parliamentary data

Moderator: Ms. Meg Hillier, Member of the House of Commons, United Kingdom

• Mr. Claudio Cajado, Member of the Chamber of Deputies, Brazil
• Mr. Carlo Marchetti, Information Systems Development Office, Senate of Italy
• Mr. Mikael Vos, Chief Information Officer, Riksdag, Sweden

Effective outsourcing of ICT projects

Moderator: Ms. Marilyn Barua-Yap, Secretary General of the House of Representatives, Philippines

• Mr. Soufiane Ben Moussa, Chief Technology Officer of the House of Commons, Canada (French)
• Mr. Andreas Wortmann, Head of Resources, Security and Logistics, Federal Assembly, Switzerland

16:00-16:30

Coffee

16:30-18:00

Good practices in the reuse of parliamentary data

Moderator: Mr. Ramiro San Juan, Director of Parliamentary Digital Services, Chamber of Deputies, Argentina

• Ms. Anne Esambert, Administrator, Senate, France
• Mr. John Wonderlich, Policy Director, Sunlight Foundation

Public information strategies in the light of technological evolution

Moderator: Mr. Olivier Connan, Head of the Institutional Communication Division, National Assembly, France

• Mr. Japhet Muthomi, Chief Public Affairs and Communication Officer, Parliament of Kenya
• Mr. Yang Shengwan, Deputy Director-General of the Information Center, National People’s Congress, China
• Mr. Mohammed Abubakr, General Director of Media Directorate, Council of Representatives of Iraq

09:00-10:45

Access to the law and legislative documents

Moderator: Mr. Prithvirajsing Roopun, Member of the Pan-African Parliament

• Mr. Thomas Bruce, Director of the Legal Information Institute, Cornell University
• Mr. Robert Reeves, Deputy Clerk of the House of Representatives, United States of America
• Ms. Ines Kerle, Head of Digital Media and Corporate Design, Parliament of Austria

(Re)building parliamentary web sites

Moderator: Mr. Robert Halfon, Member of the House of Commons, United Kingdom

• Mr. Robert Schlegel, Member of the State Duma, Russian Federation
• Mr. Jasem Al Blooshi, IT Director, United Arab Emirates
• Mr. Luis Antonio Sánchez Estrada, General Coordinator of Technology Services, Ecuador

Coffee

11:15-13:00

Adding social media channels to Parliament’s communication strategy

Moderator: Mr. Jordi Jané i Guash, fourth Deputy Speaker, Congress of Deputies, Spain

• Mr. Odirile Motlhale, Member of the National Assembly, Botswana
• Ms. Choi Minhee, Member of the National Assembly, Republic of Korea
• Mr. John Pullinger, Director General of Information Services, House of Commons, United Kingdom

Capturing and publishing parliamentary records: timeliness, accuracy and preservation

Moderator: Mr. Jean Albert Agbré Touni, Member of the National Assembly, Côte d’Ivoire

• Mr. Shahin Hasanov, Head of Department of Information Resources and Technology, Parliament of Azerbaijan
• Mr. Michael Mukuka, Principal Clerk-ICT, Zambia
• Mr. Liu Weihua, Director of the Information Center, National People’s Congress, China
• Ms. Alleyne Thompson Huffman, Director of Information Technology and Communications, National Assembly of Panama
• Ms. Felicia Uchola, Director of ICT, National Assembly

Lunch

14:30-16:00

ICT strategic planning in Parliament

Moderator: Mr. Kenneth Akibate, Acting Deputy Clerk, Sergeant at Arms, Pan-African Parliament

• Ms. Carol Mills, Secretary, Department of Parliamentary Services, Australia
• Mr. Lucas Chedrese, Secretary General, Chamber of Deputies, Argentina
• Mr. Mortaza Rahimi, Deputy Secretary General, House of the People, Afghanistan
• Ms. Sylvia Tosar, Member of the ICT Parliament Committee, Parliament of Uruguay

Mobile services and apps for MPs

Moderator: Mr. António Fernando Couto dos Santos, Member of the Assembly of the Republic, Portugal

• Mr. Hwang Seung Ki (25MB), Legislative Information Systems Officer, National Assembly, Republic of Korea
• Mr. Hernan Figueroa, Head of IT, Chamber of Deputies, Chile
• Mr. Ahmed Nasser, Deputy Secretary General, Shura Council, Bahrain

16:00-16:30

Coffee

16:30-18:00

Effective partnerships for building ICT capacity

Moderator: Ms. Margarita Seminario, Director, Asia, Chemonics Inc

• Ms. Mireille Eza, Director of the Noria Programme, Assemblée Parlementaire de la Francophonie
• Mr. Dan Swislow, National Democratic Institute
• Mr. Aziz El Mouhib, Head of the Information and Communication Division, Parliament of Morocco

Innovation in research and library services: information discovery, organization and delivery

(Jointly organized with the IFLA Section on Library and Research Services for Parliaments)

Moderator: Ms. Raissa Teodori, Chair of the IFLA Section on Library and Research Services for Parliaments

• Mr. Alfonso Perez, Director of the Library of Parliament, Chile
• Mr. Choi Young-Su, Director, Legal Resources Development Division, National Assembly Library, Republic of Korea

09.00-10.00

Demonstration of the e-parliament system at the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea

Coffee

10:30-11:45

Securing parliamentary data and communications

Moderator: Mr. Hernan Figueroa, Head of IT, Congress, Chile

• Mr. Javier de Andrés Blasco, Director of the ICT Centre, Congress of Deputies, Spain
• Ms. Eija Seittenranta, Chief Information Officer, Australia

Delivering effective internal services through Intranets

Moderator: Mr. Hani Alzaid, ICT General Manager, Saudi Arabia

• Mr. Juha-Pekka Leskinen, IT Manager, Parliament of Finland
• Mr. Oscar Yabes, Secretary General, Senate, Philippines

11:45-13:00

Parliaments and digital privacy

Moderator: Mr. James Rege, Member of the National Assembly, Kenya

• Mr. Sergio Cunha, Senator, Brazil
• Mr. Mutaz Abu Ramman, Member of the House of Representatives, Jordan

Inter-parliamentary cooperation on XML

Moderator: Mr. Thomas Bruce, Director of the Legal Information Institute, Cornell University

• Ms. Monica Palmirani, Associate professor of Computer Science and Law, Bologna University
• Ms. Kirsten Gullickson, Senior Systems Analyst, House of Representatives, United States of America

13:00-14:30

Lunch

14:30-16:00

Responding to new forms of citizen participation

Moderator: Mr. Wade Mark, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Trinidad and Tobago

• Mr. John Bercow, Speaker of the House of Commons, United Kingdom
• Ms. Maria Mussini, Member of the Senate, Italy
• Ms. Donna Scheeder, President–Elect, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions

16:00-17:30

Future horizons: e-Parliament in 2020+

Moderator: Mr. Patrice Martin-Lalande, Member of the National Assembly, France

17:30-18:00

Official closing of the World e-Parliament Conference 2014

• Mr. Martin Chungong, Secretary General elect of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (French)
• Mr Lim Byeong-Kyu, Acting Secretary General elect of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea