The United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union have released the World e-Parliament Report 2012, which documents the efforts of legislatures to use information and communication technologies to support their functions. The Report is based on the Global Survey of ICT in Parliaments 2012 conducted by the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament between February and May 2012, to which 156 parliaments replied.
The World e-Parliament Report 2012, prepared by the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament, is the third in a series that began in 2008. The first edition established a baseline of how parliaments were using ICT to help them fulfil their responsibilities and to connect to their constituencies. The second edition, in 2010, built on that work to evaluate the progress accomplished by parliaments during the intervening two years in their efforts to use modern technologies to strengthen their institutional role. The present 2012 edition documents the efforts of legislatures to use information and communication technologies suggesting that, while many of the challenges to the effective use of ICT noted in the previous Reports are still present, there has been limited but nevertheless important progress in the state of e-parliament in the past two years.
The Report covers the following topics: Developments in ICT and parliaments since 2010; Communication and engagement with citizens; Achieving openness, transparency, and accountability through websites; Technology services for members; Management of parliamentary documentation; Libraries and research services; Human resources and technical infrastructure; ICT strategic planning and implementation for e-parliament; The state of e-parliament in 2012; Advances in international cooperation. In addition, the Report further provides a methodology that can serve as a tool for parliaments to improve their performance in key areas of e-Parliament.
The World e-Parliament Report 2012 is available for download on the Global Centre website: http://www.ictparliament.org/WePReport2012.
View Jeff Griffith's presentation at the World e-Parliament Conference 2012: http://www.ictparliament.org/sites/default/files/wepc2012-griffith-keyn…
ISBN Number: 978-92-1-123193-9
Description of license: Copyright © United Nations, 2012
Nature of documentation: Technical report