1. ` A VIRTUAL DESKTOP TO SUPPORT THE MOBILE ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE. Piloting in the Lithuanian Parliament Birutė Leonavičienė Analyst Department of Information Technologies and Telecommunications SEIMAS of the REPUBLIC of LITHUANIA ECPRD ICT Meeting 18 - 19 October 2007, Ljubljana (Slovenia)

2. A virtual desktop to support the mobile elected representative (eRepresentative) Objective Make legislative services more effective providing a secure and mobile working enivonment for elected representatives.

3. A virtual desktop to support the mobile elected representative eRepresentative desktop must support MPs to: Obtain personalised, specific, filtered data ‘anywhere, any place and any time’; Collaborate with each other securely and conveniently; Influence the legislative process in a timely convenient and secure manner.

4. eRrepresentative provide Inter-assembly search and retrieval Track committee legislative actions Committee events notification Secure discussion space Remote e-polling for committees E-voting.

5. A virtual desktop to support the mobile elected representative Why we are interested in... ?

6. Information System of the Seimas Legal information subsystem Subsystem of plenary sittings Subsystem for audio/video recording and management Subsystem of photo/ video document archive THE SEIMAS OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA SOCIETY (Citizens) INTERNET Website content management system News agencies Public information subsystems Subsystem for storage, management and search of information provided by the media and information agencies; Subsystem for classification support of the IS; Correspondence management subsystem; Subsystems to ensure support and security of internal operations of the Seimas. Internal information subsystems

7. A virtual desktop to support the mobile elected representative The reasons to take part in e-Representative: There is a need for collaborative tool for committee members to share views on issues from in-person committee meetings; There is a need to extend mobile platform for MPs; There is a need to increase MPs’ opportunities to consider matters related to draft proposals in other Parliaments’ experiences.

8. A virtual desktop to support the mobile elected representative Services to be piloted: Committee event notifications; Track committee legislative actions; Inter-assembly search and retrieval.

9. A virtual desktop to support the mobile elected representative Intended Committee eRepresentative was presented to the Committee of the Development of Information Society; Solid decision to take part in. User panel: 7 MPs; 3 Advisers; ~3 observers (ITTD). Other interested in MPs.

10. Information System of the Seimas + eRepresentative Legal information subsystem Subsystem of plenary sittings Subsystem for audio/video recording and management Subsystem of photo/ video document archive Website content managem ent system eRepresentative Public information subsystems Internal information subsystems Other subsystems e-Representative will be incorporated into existing IS

11. Information System of the Seimas + eRepresentative What was done? Software tools for exchanging data between the Seimas Legal Acts database and the eRepresentative repository were designed.

12. Information System of the Seimas  eRepresentative Available content: ▫Laws; ▫Decisions. Commitee’s documents: ▫Agendas; ▫Minutes; ▫Other working documents.

13. A virtual desktop to support the mobile elected representative May, 2007 – alfa version was released. November, 2007 – beta version expected.

14. Expectations of eRepresentative... Committee Event Notification and Committee Workspace would enable committee members to be better prepared for meetings by increasing opportunities to share and consider amendments and their colleagues’ positions on related issues. Inter-parliamentary search agent increases representatives’ opportunities to consider matters related to draft proposals, drawing on other parliaments’ experiences.

15. A virtual desktop to support the mobile elected representative Thank you for attention! ?