Meeting APPs Tested among Danish MP's Ole Søndergaard, Head of IT Operations, Danish Parliament (The Folketing)
iPhones and iPads in Danish Parliament 1.iPhones: Everyone 2.iPads: MPs only We need an APP strategy !
2 kinds of APPs tested 1.A Website APP for iPads - target group: MPs - home-made - short cut to parliamentary information 2.A Generalized Meeting APP - target group: Municipalities + … - vender-made - meetings: Agendas + documents + annotations
1. Website APP for iPads Calender News Documents MPs biographies Committee Activities Preferences TV transmission from meetings Said by MP: - A Website APP, dedicates to MPs, is indeed much better than the general web ! % of my work with the general web- site now has moved to the new Website APP !
2. Generalized Meeting APP Said by MP: - Paperless meetings two years from now ! - Social sharing of notes / comments to will change parliamentary process radically !
A little more about the Generalized Meeting APP Complex Databases at Danish Parliament Meetings 1.Committees 2.Agendas 3.Committee documents 4.Shared Notation Simple Database at APP Vendor
Committees Business and Commerce Culture Justice Integration Social Services Food Environment
Meeting dates
Agenda
Committee documents
Notes entered from iPads Notes entered from pcs
Loose thoughts for an App Strategy !
Native for internals and HTML5 for externals ! - Parliament still decides equipment for MPs and staff ? Strategy loose thoughts
Separate APPs for separate user groups ! - We have to take care quite a number of APPs ? - We are ready to deliver support for public too ? Strategy loose thoughts
We are prepared to feed a lot of external APPs - Be prepared to concentrate on delivering data ? - We are now synchronizers, parallel to Exchange / Outlook ?
Strategy loose thoughts We dont care if APPs are quite the same ! - A matter of individual taste among MPs ? - Bring-Your-Own-APP principle
Strategy loose thoughts Do not compete APP Complexes ! -We cant beat them in features? -The Social Dimension / interaction (Facebook) in focus?
Strategy loose thoughts We are ready to support Party Groups as well ! - Party Groups need meeting APPs too ! - Our common infrastructure will be rewarded ? - Manual feed is an important supplement to the automated ?
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