e-Parliament for Citizens: Current Services
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e-Parliament for Citizens: Current Services
Birutė LeonavičienėAnalyst, Information Technology DepartmentSeimas of the Republic of Lithuania
Evolution of the Information System of the Seimas
• 1991 – start of the development of the Information System
• 1995 - Internet website was launched
• 1998 – 1999 - was developed current structure of the information system
Principles of Information Policy
• Publicity draft legislation, video, audio and other documents are published and available free of charge for public use;
• Transparency public is widely informed on the activity of the Seimas;
• On-line information; • Security;
• Information reliabilitythe use of e-signature has been launched;
Principles of Information Policy
• Disseminationelectronic subscription is available;
• Interactivitypublic can express their opinion by electronic means and receive responses to their queries;
• Compatibilityinformation exchange with external information systems;
• Accessibility;• Attainability
information can be obtained through a variety of mobile devices;
• Permanent storage.
Subsystems of the Information System of the Seimas
Internal information subsystems
Public information subsystems
e-Parliament for Citizens. Information exchange
Legal information subsystem
Subsystem of plenary
sittings
Subsystem for audio/video recording and management
Subsystem of video
document archive
THE SEIMAS OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA
CITIZENS
Internet
Website content management system
E-mailGuest bookNews
agencies
e-Parliament for Citizens. Information system
Legal information subsystem
Subsystem of plenary
sittings
Subsystem for audio/video recording and management
Subsystem of video
document archive
THE SEIMAS OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA
CITIZENS
Internet
Website content management system
E-mailGuest bookNews
agencies
Legal information subsystem
• Database of the Legislation of the Republic of Lithuania;
• Database of legal acts of the European Union and respective translations.
Legal information subsystem.Objectives
• Increase public awareness of the legislative process;
• Foster legal awareness of the public;
• Encourage government accountability to the public;
• Present all the activities of the Seimas to the citizens.
Database contains
• All legal acts published in the official gazette Valstybės Žinios and its supplement Informaciniai Pranešimai;
• Working documents of the Seimas, including draft legislation, agendas of meetings, minutes, decisions of the Board of the Seimas, etc.;
• Legal acts of the European Union and their translations into Lithuanian;
Database contains
• International conventions, bilateral and multilateral treaties and supplementing documents, documents adopted by the Baltic Assembly, the Seimas of Lithuania and the Sejm of Poland;
• Consolidated versions of legal acts adopted by the Seimas and the Government;
• Official translations of legal acts into English and Russian.
Legal acts. Legislative path
• Information on the adoption of legislation by the Seimas is provided starting with the registered draft and related information and finishing with the consolidated versions of legal acts.
• Every legal act is also linked to the regulations governing its implementation.
Legal acts. Related documents
• Logical links have been established among all documents
• Legal acts of the Republic of Lithuania are linked with corresponding legal acts of the EU
Legal acts. EUROVOC indexing
• All the legal acts of the Republic of Lithuania and of the European Union are indexed by descriptive terms of the EUROVOC
e-Parliament for Citizens. Information system
Legal information subsystem
Subsystem of plenary
sittings
Subsystem for audio/video recording and managenment
Subsystem of video
document archive
THE SEIMAS OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA
CITIZENS
Internet
Website content management system
E-mailGuest bookNews
agencies
Plenary Sitting Information Subsystem.Objectives• to serve the plenary sittings of the
Seimas;
• to keep a close watch on PS process;
• track how MPs are voting.
Plenary Sitting Information Subsystem
• The following information is stored in the system:
– information on plenary sittings, including questions under deliberation, discussions, registration, and voting information;
– detailed agenda of the sitting;
– planned date for the deliberations;
– factual agenda of the sittings;
– stages of deliberation on legislation;
– persons to take the floor as registered beforehand.
Plenary Sitting Information Subsystem
• During the sitting:
– discussion proceedings are settled;
– registration results are provided, where users register electronically;
– voting results are provided, where users vote via electronic equipment;
– sitting attendance by MPs is displayed.
Plenary Sitting Information Subsystem
• Real time information processing.
• Video information is titled.
• Broadcasting:
– via Internet;
– on regional TVs.
• Detailed reports:
– by e-mail;
– on paper for persons are interested in.
e-Parliament for Citizens. Information system
Legal information subsystem
Subsystem of plenary
sittings
Subsystem for audio/video recording and management
Subsystem of video
document archive
THE SEIMAS OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA
CITIZENS
Internet
Website content management system
E-mailGuest bookNews
agencies
Subsystem for Audio/Video Recording and Management
• Live audio/video broadcast of plenary sittings;
• Live online broadcasts of press conferences and other major events.
• Digital recording of the broadcasts of :
– plenary sittings,
– press conferences;
– other events.
• Verbatim reports;
• Offline storage of audio/video records in the archive;
• Online storage of minutes and audio records.
Subsystem for Audio/Video Recording and Management
• Audio recordings of the plenary sittings are indexed, enabling users to search by speaker and subject.
• Search for press conferences by time and title.
e-Parliament for Citizens. Information system
Legal information subsystem
Subsystem of plenary
sittings
Subsystem for audio/video recording and management
Subsystem of video
document archive
THE SEIMAS OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA
CITIZENS
Internet
Website content management system
E-mailGuest bookNews
agencies
Video Archive Subsystem
• To store, manage and search photos
• The “Photo of the Day” - the news and photos of the day.
e-Parliament for Citizens. Information system
Legal information subsystem
Subsystem of plenary
sittings
Subsystem for audio/video recording and managenment
Subsystem of video
document archive
THE SEIMAS OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA
CITIZENS
Internet
Website content management system
E-mailGuest bookNews
agencies
Internet Site. www.lrs.lt
Internet Site
• Seimas Authorities
– work of the Speaker of the Seimas (agendas, visits, presentations, speeches);
– composition, functions and documents of the Board of the Seimas and Assembly of Elders
• Biographies of MPs, contact information, functions in committees, parliamentary delegations, etc.
Internet Site
• Political Groups
– Composition, activities, latest materials.
Internet Site
• Committees
– Composition, contact information;
– Agendas;
– draft legislation under deliberation;
– draft legal acts to be discussed by the Seimas committees;
– conclusions on the discussed projects, decisions on issues of parliamentary scrutiny.
Internet Site
• Commissions
– Agendas;
– Minutes of meetings, reports;
– Information about the ad hoc committees.
Internet Site. Work of the Parliament
• Plenary Sittings:
– Agendas in advance;
– Questions under consideration;
– Voting results;
– MPs attandance of the plenary sitting;
– Audio/video broadcast;
– Minutes;
– Verbatim records.
Internet Site. Work of the Parliament
• Statistical data on plenary sittings and attendance figures for the Seimas Groups and MPs:
– legislation process-related work;
– submitted draft legislation and other documents;
– results of voting for the document under deliberation;
– speeches at the plenary sittings;
– attendance of plenary sittings.
Internet Site. Work of the Parliament
• Statistical data on the adoption of new legislation and comparable data on the work of the committees and Parliament groups;
• Data on work efficiency of the former Seimas terms and comparable data on their involvement in the legislative process.
Internet Site. Parliamentary Scrutiny
• Reports from institutions accountable to the Seimas;
• Questions and enquiries, reports on the activities of the Government;
• Assignments to the Government.
Internet Site. Public relations
• Highlights:
– recent press releases,
– announcements of events to take place at the Seimas,
– information on seminars, conferences, exhibitions,
– open doors hours;
– meetings with individuals, meetings of MPs with the voters;
– announcements from plenary sittings and committee meetings.
Internet Site. Public relations
• Information on signing up for a guided tour;
• Virtual tour of the parliament buildings;
• Internet site for children is also available.
Internet Site. Public relations
• Publications:
– the weekly magazine “Seimo kronika” (The Seimas Cronicle);
– “Parliamentary Mirror”.
Internet Site. History
• Information on the Seimas since Lithuania reestablished independence, including the most important documents, biographies of then politician, and archive photos.
Internet Site. International Relations
• Information on the parliamentary delegations;
• Seimas groups for parliamentary relations,
• overviews of the activities of the delegations in the assemblies co-established by Lithuania.
• Information on the business trips of the MPs, respective reports.
Internet Site. Legal Acts
• Legislation of the Republic of Lithuania;
• EU Legislation;
• New Legislation;
• Draft Legislation.
Internet Site. Additional services
• News feeds - RSS service:
– Latest press releases;
– New legislation.
• XML links for external information systems;
• Subscription by e-mail to:
– new legislation;
– information on the events the users are interested in.
• WAP service.
Internet Site. Information in Other Languages
• General information in English and French is also available.
Internet Site. Decentralised input
• Subdivisions of the Office of the Seimas are responsible for preparing of information and keeping it up to-date.
• Subdivisions who manages information are responsible for information input into WEB Site DB.
Dissemination. Offline information
At the end of each term of the Seimas a DVD including the following information is issued:
– Elections results;
– Biographies of MPs;
– Activity and functions of the Seimas authorities;
– Composition and functions of the Seimas committees and commissions;
– information on interparliamentary groups, parliament delegations;
– minutes of plenary sittings, audio records of the Seimas sittings;
Dissemination. Offline information
– Legal acts and other adopted documents;
– Audio recordings of press conferences;
– Statistical data;
– Seimas activities illustrated by photos.
Telling Figures. Legislation Database.
• over 210.000 documents
– 109.000 legal acts;
– over 7.000 translations into Russian, English and French;
– other documents.
• The Database is constantly updated by adding:
– approx. 70 documents per day;
– approx. 1.500 documents per month.
Site Attendance at www.lrs.lt05.01.2006 – 06.01.2006
• approx. 12.000.000 hits (990.000 visits) per month;
• approx. 15.000 hits per hour on average;
• approx. 54.000 hits per hour peak.
• Bandwidth - approx. 500 GB per month.
www.lrs.lt. Hits
15.28 hits/visit
Population of Lithuania –3.500.000
Visitors to the online legislation database 1998 - 2006
e-Parliament for Citizens: Current Services
Thank you for attention!
Contact:Birutė LeonavičienėE-mail: [email protected]