From:
Ross
Date:
Feb 29 18:20 UTC
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They say:
The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the
Inter-Parliamentary Union launched today the World e-Parliament Report 2008.
The Report was prepared as part of the work of the Global Centre for ICT in
Parliament.
The World e-Parliament Report 2008 represents the first effort to establish a
baseline of how parliaments are using, or planning to use ICT to help them
carry out their representative, lawmaking and oversight responsibilities and to
connect to their constituencies. It is also intended to advance a shared
knowledge base among the parliaments of the world and to promote international
debate on these matters.
The Report is based on the responses and comments provided by 105 assemblies
from around the world to a survey on the use of ICT in parliament conducted
between July and November 2007. It also draws on experiences exchanged during
the World e-Parliament Conference 2007 and relevant publicly available
information.
I say:
An excellent and very important piece of research. Significant, because it
covers all conceivable applications of ICT by parliaments across the world.
Well done to Gherardo, Jeffrey and Jane for putting it together.
The Report is available at www.ictparliament.org.