eRepresentative is co-financed under the IST Programme of the European Commission
Partners: Catalonian, Dutch, Hungarian and Lithuanian parliament, Westmeath County Council, Napier
University ITC, HP, Scytl and Gov2U
eRepresentative is co-financed under the IST Programme of the European Commission
Partners: Catalonian, Dutch, Hungarian and Lithuanian parliament, Westmeath County Council, Napier
University ITC, HP, Scytl and Gov2U
eRepresentative is co-financed under the IST Programme of the European Commission
Partners: Catalonian, Dutch, Hungarian and Lithuanian parliament, Westmeath County Council, Napier
University ITC, HP, Scytl and Gov2U
eRepresentative is co-financed under the IST Programme of the European Commission
Partners: Catalonian, Dutch, Hungarian and Lithuanian parliament, Westmeath County Council, Napier
University ITC, HP, Scytl and Gov2U
eRepresentative is co-financed under the IST Programme of the European Commission
Partners: Catalonian, Dutch, Hungarian and Lithuanian parliament, Westmeath County Council, Napier
University ITC, HP, Scytl and Gov2U
A virtual desktop to support the
mobile elected representative
EC contract FP62004-26985
Innovation
February 2006 – January 2008
• Make systems able to share information on
a broad enough scale
• Allow representatives to work away from
Parliament with more robust security
• Provide the right information at the right
time, applying ‘intelligent agent’
technologies in the Parliamentary
environment
• Stimulate inter-assembly collaboration by
enabling them to share documents
eRepresentative is co-financed under the IST Programme of the European Commission
Partners: Catalonian, Dutch, Hungarian and Lithuanian parliament, Westmeath County Council, Napier
University ITC, HP, Scytl and Gov2U
A virtual desktop to support the
mobile elected representative
EC contract FP62004-26985
eRepresentative Desktop
February 2006 – January 2008
• Work remote, save and easy in legislative
process, for example drafting a law,
discussing amendments and voting.
• Smart technology to manage data
overloads.
• Enable seamless use ‘virtual’ desktop with
current parliaments’ systems and workflow.
• Innovative, user-friendly and mobilecapable security for collaboration for
legislative documents, while meeting needs
on integrity, authenticity and privacy
eRepresentative is co-financed under the IST Programme of the European Commission
Partners: Catalonian, Dutch, Hungarian and Lithuanian parliament, Westmeath County Council, Napier
University ITC, HP, Scytl and Gov2U
EC contract FP62004-26985
A virtual desktop to support the
mobile elected representative
February 2006 – January 2008
eRepresentative Desktop
Innovation
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•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Make systems able to share information
on a broad enough scale
Allow representatives to work away from
Parliament with more robust security
Provide the right information at the right
time, applying ‘intelligent agent’
technologies in the Parliamentary
environment
Stimulate inter-assembly collaboration by
enabling them to share documents
Work remote, save and easy in legislative
process, for example drafting a law,
discussing amendments and voting.
Smart technology to manage data
overloads.
Enable seamless use ‘virtual’ desktop with
current parliaments’ systems and
workflow.
Innovative, user-friendly and mobilecapable security for collaboration for
legislative documents, while meeting
needs on integrity, authenticity and
privacy
eRepresentative is co-financed under the IST Programme of the European Commission
Partners: Catalonian, Dutch, Hungarian and Lithuanian parliament, Westmeath County Council, Napier
University ITC, HP, Scytl and Gov2U
Some technical details
eRepresentative is co-financed under the IST Programme of the European Commission
Partners: Catalonian, Dutch, Hungarian and Lithuanian parliament, Westmeath County Council, Napier
University ITC, HP, Scytl and Gov2U
Functions vs. Goals
(Innovative solution for an representative)
Saves time
(Goal 1)
Needs / adds
collaboration
(Goal 2)
Remote secure
influence
(Goal 3)
Committee legislative actions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Secure discussion space
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Inter-parliamentary search agent

Committee events notification
E-voting for individual ballots
Yes

Remote e-polling for committees

Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
The innovation is:
1) Representatives can do things differently or new  
2) Representatives can do all things integrated
eRepresentative is co-financed under the IST Programme of the European Commission
Partners: Catalonian, Dutch, Hungarian and Lithuanian parliament, Westmeath County Council, Napier
University ITC, HP, Scytl and Gov2U
Technical View –
eRep data entities
dir
(LDAP)
docs
vote
docs
docs
any
other
system
eRep
populate
dir
www
legislative docs,
systems metadata
a.o.b
eRepresentative is co-financed under the IST Programme of the European Commission
Partners: Catalonian, Dutch, Hungarian and Lithuanian parliament, Westmeath County Council, Napier
University ITC, HP, Scytl and Gov2U
Technical View –
eRep data entities
Directory
(LDAP)
Votes
DSpace
any other
business
legal actions
members
groups
committees
roles
content docs
collaboration
groups
group members
documents
opinions
polls
collab. space
- docs
- authoring
- discussions
interparliamentary
search 
members
accessible
european sites
doc metadata
committee
topics
local
legislative
systems
committee data
(what, content,
decisions)
session data
event
notification
vote period
poll period
new docs of
interest
pub/sub info
committee
issues, events,
topics
e-vote 
votes
vote results
pub/sub votes
start/closing
voting period
e-poll 
poll votes
poll results
pub/sub polls
eRepresentative is co-financed under the IST Programme of the European Commission
Partners: Catalonian, Dutch, Hungarian and Lithuanian parliament, Westmeath County Council, Napier
University ITC, HP, Scytl and Gov2U
Representatives can do things differently or new  
Technical Model
security/encryption
governance
mobile GUI
user pref's
agents/access prov
notification
vote
dir
other
eRep
libraries
…
docs
xxx
any other
eRep
(1x)
middleware – information provider
dir
API
API
API
API
adapter
adapter
adapter
adapter
www
legislative docs,
systems metadata
a.o.b
legacy
connection
(6x)
eRepresentative is co-financed under the IST Programme of the European Commission
Partners: Catalonian, Dutch, Hungarian and Lithuanian parliament, Westmeath County Council, Napier
University ITC, HP, Scytl and Gov2U
Technical View –
eRep data flow
Server platform
Overview
Opinion
Decision
Human decission flow
mobile platform
•get documents
•receive notifications
•search all libraries
•write opinions
•get opinions
•set profile for interest
•poll on issues
•archive documents
•poll on issue
•vote on issue
eRepresentative
read
static
write
dynamic
read
dynamic
write
dynamic
eRepresentative is co-financed under the IST Programme of the European Commission
Partners: Catalonian, Dutch, Hungarian and Lithuanian parliament, Westmeath County Council, Napier
University ITC, HP, Scytl and Gov2U
Technical View –
Platform vs. functionality
PDA
Online
(Smartphone)
laptop
mobile
phone
Black
berry
legal actions
(Read)
√x
√x
-
read
collabora-tion
(discuss) 1)
√x
√x
-
√ discuss
interparl. search
-
√x
-
-
event notificat.
√ x (not
secure)
√x
√ x (sms)
√x
e-vote
√ x (not
secure)
√x
x
not secure
e-poll
√ x (not
secure)
√x
x
not secure
1) full collaboration = discussion + sharing docs + authoring docs
Only the √ indicated functions of selected mobile devices will be supported
(principle 6)
eRepresentative is co-financed under the IST Programme of the European Commission
Partners: Catalonian, Dutch, Hungarian and Lithuanian parliament, Westmeath County Council, Napier
University ITC, HP, Scytl and Gov2U
GUI+Legacy Interface
possibilities: 1+1=2?
Vote
Discuss
https
DSpace
Alfresco
Legacy
Legacy
Pnyx
Etc . . .
Legacy
eRepresentative is co-financed under the IST Programme of the European Commission
Partners: Catalonian, Dutch, Hungarian and Lithuanian parliament, Westmeath County Council, Napier
University ITC, HP, Scytl and Gov2U
Participate?
• Test and accepting (members)
• Workshop 13 December Budapest “Mobility for
MP’s…. Human decision making”
• Trans European User Group. Discussion on
specific items via internet (forum)
• Adapting technology
• Website: www.erepresentative.org
eRepresentative is co-financed under the IST Programme of the European Commission
Partners: Catalonian, Dutch, Hungarian and Lithuanian parliament, Westmeath County Council, Napier
University ITC, HP, Scytl and Gov2U
thanks
eRepresentative is co-financed under the IST Programme of the European Commission
Partners: Catalonian, Dutch, Hungarian and Lithuanian parliament, Westmeath County Council, Napier
University ITC, HP, Scytl and Gov2U