Virtual desktop for mobile elected Representative
eRepresentative
Project Overview
The eRepresentative project is a transnational
project involving elected assemblies in Catalonia,
Hungary, Ireland, Lithuania, and The Netherlands
and industrial partners HP, Scytl and Gov2U and
academic partner ITC, Napier University.
The Project aims to develop a secure, personalised,
mobile working environment for elected
representatives which will be based on a panEuropean approach and so enable both inter and
intra parliamentary communication.
eRepresentative: Contract Number 026985
• Start date: 1st February 2006.
• Duration of the project: 24 months
• The maximum Community contribution to the project
is EUR 1,517,931 (ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED
SEVENTEEN THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED
THIRTY-ONE euro).
Objectives
• understand what it means to be a mobile elected
representative and model the associated legislative
services needed by them and the tasks they need to
undertake
• appreciate and model the information and information
systems associated with legislative scrutiny of
legislation and policy
• specify and develop a virtual desktop environment for
secure mobile working
• deploy the “eRepresentative” desktop in a number of
elected assemblies at national, regional and local level
• critically evaluate its potential and usefulness for
elected representatives and the impact on assembly
legislative services
S&T innovations
• Personalised Information exchange on a pan European scale to
foster an enlarged Europe
• System integration with assembly voting systems
• Secure remote access to information supporting multi-channel
access modes in collaborative environments:
• Extension of DSpace to enable the robust operation of the
repository and agent interaction supporting:
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Document authenticity verification
"Trusted" federation of content.
Content organisation, metadata for eGov publications
Dynamic/customised views of data/search results.
• Intelligent agents delivering real-time assembly information
• Legislative Document Mark-up Language (LDML)
– supporting evolution of an extensible European Standard document
definition to support the exchange of legislative documents
between heterogeneous systems
Milestones
Elements
Month
Milestone 1
Elected representatives’ requirements and acceptance criteria
Best Practice and current Situation in elected assemblies
Completion of the legislative process model
Completion of technical interface requirements
M6
Milestone 2
Public report on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Storyboard presented to elected assemblies
Architectural design presented to elected assemblies
M12
Milestone 3
Alpha version of legislative working environment – intralegislative communications
M14
Milestone 4
Completion of alpha pilot and assessment
M18
Milestone 5
ßeta version of legislative working environment – interlegislative communications
M19
Milestone 6
Completion of ßeta pilot and validation and impact assessment
report
M24
Work Packages
WP1
WP5
months 1 - 4
WP2
months 10 - 15
User Requirements
and best
practice
Integration and
Intelligent agent
development
WP4
WP6
months 5 - 21
months 1 - 8
WP3
Mobile Working
Strategy for
eRepresentative
Legislative modelling
Pilot
eRepresentative
virtual desktop
months 10 - 22
WP7
Security and mobility
months 1 - 7
Validation and
Impact assessment
months 9 - 24
WP9
Project Management
months 1 - 24
WP8
Dissemination and
Exploitation
months 1-24
Legislative modelling and
user requirements
WP1:
capture and model legislative document production process
including all significant events, inputs, resources & outputs
associated with legislative proceedings
WP2:
1. Legislative process diagram
2. Collection and evaluation of existing data sources
3. Collection and evaluation of potential
system development interfaces & standardisation
define the “eRepresentative” requirements in terms of
principle electronic legislative activities they need to support
in both participating assemblies & other assemblies in Europe
1.User requirements and acceptance criteria
2. Best Practice and current Situation in elected assemblies
3. Report on User Interface requirements
WP3 & 4: The Virtual ‘desktop’
Publish / Subscribe
Through agents
eRepresentative
Different (mobile) devices
Security on
- Doc level
- Authentication
(Infrastructure)
- Application
Subscriber
Agents
Publisher
Operational
information
(Dspace)
Information Provider
Interfacing to Parliamentarian Information
Systems
Legacy Security
Legacy Parlis-es
(Pan European Information Exchange)
(Multilevel Security)
Governance
Access Provider
Information Harvester
User Context & Interfacing
Other
Parliaments
Using, Piloting & Evaluating
WP5:
understanding how to progress from an “in-house”
working environment to a “virtual mobile” working environment
WP6:
Alpha pilot on intra-legislative communications
Beta pilot on inter-legislative communication.
WP7:
Does the environment perform as it should and does it deliver
an environment that effectively supports the mobile work of
elected representatives & associated legislative processes?
Dissemination
• Range of Annual Conferences to be considered:
• European Parliaments Research Initiative Conference
• CALRE annual meeting - European Regional Parliaments
exchange of best practices
• Worldwide Forum on eDemocracy
• E-Challenges conference
• DEXA EGOV An International Conference on eGovernment
• The Digital Government Conference
• IFIP conference on eBussines, eCommerce and
eGovernment Conference
• The European Conference on Information Systems ECIS
eRepresentative will deliver
• Secure, personalised, mobile working environment for
elected representatives
– Legislative process modelling & report on existing legacy
systems
– User Requirements & success criteria
– Best Practice in Elected assemblies
– Report on User Interface Requirements
– Report on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET) in elected
assemblies
– Storyboard & architectural design report *new
– Two versions of legislative working environment
– Plan for moving towards a mobile working environment
– Two pilot versions legislative working environment
– Pilot analysis and assessment report
– Project portal/collaborative environment