ICT in the Estonian Parliament Ahto Saks 15.11.2012
Topics Overview of the IT department What have we done? What are we doing? Today Tomorrow (future plans)
IT department Information technology department Network and system management, data security; Customer support; System development; Audio, video, verbatim record system, cable TV, radio transmission, presentation systems, electronic voting; ~300 users, laptops and workstations, 50 virtual servers, 40 network devices (routers, firewall, switches,…); Services for MP’s: laptop (+dock., lcd), printer, telephone, mobile phone services, fax, remote access, activesync, remote desktop connection.
What have we done? Law draft system Voting system Video recording system Verbatim recording system
Law draft system 1.01.2012 started new law draft system; Based on the open source platform Alfresco; Support 100% paperless proceedings.
Voting system Switchboard information display (touch screen), card reader, microphone (opened only by the operator). Connected with draft law system, video system, subtitle system and verbatim system Time left 00:20 Vote for …
Video system New HD capability Fully automatic Connected with voting system, subtitle system
Verbatim Recording System All the speeches and comments made at the sittings of the plenary assembly of the Riigikogu are steno graphed Connected with draft law system and electronic voting system
Today and tomorrow Started new website (also intranet) analysis We will follow recommendation of W3C, (WCAG AA+, semantic web, …) Started video and verbatim records synchronizing analyze Digital media repository Wi-Fi and VPN Infosecurity
Thank you! ahto.saks@riigikogu.ee