Virtual desktop for mobile elected Representative eRepresentative Project Overview

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Virtual desktop for mobile elected
Representative eRepresentativeProject
Overview
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• 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
  pan-European approach and so enable both inter
  and intra parliamentary communication.

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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).
  

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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

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ST 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
• 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

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Milestones
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Work Packages
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Legislative modelling and user requirements
WP2 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
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WP3 4 The Virtual desktop
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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?
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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

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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