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The Association of Secretaries General met in Quebec City, Canada, from Monday 22 to Friday 26 October 2012, in parallel with the 127th session of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. Further information on the session is now available under Past Meetings.
The next ASGP meeting will be in
- Quito (Ecuador) - 22-27 March 2013
The ASGP is currently meeting in Quebec, Canada, where members will discuss a range of subjects including personnel management in parliaments and the protection of witnesses appearing before parliamentary committees. More information and a selection of papers under discussion at the conference are available on this site.
The United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union have published 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 French version will be available at the end of October 2012. To download the Report:
http://www.ictparliament.org/WePReport2012
The ASGP will hold its next meeting in Quebec, Canada from 22-26 October. More information on the meeting and on the associated one-day conference, organised jointly with the IPU, on "Parliamentary representation and communication and the role of socal media" is available on this site.
The World e-Parliament Conference is the biennial forum of the community of parliaments addressing, from both policy and technical perspectives, how the use of information and communication technology can help improve representation, transparency, accountability, openness, and effectiveness in the complex parliamentary environment.
The 2012 conference will take place on 13, 14 and 15 September 2012 at the Chamber of Deputies of Italy in Rome, and will conclude on the International Day of Democracy 2012. For more information e-mail conference@ictparliament.org
The Association of Secretaries General met in Kampala, Uganda, from Sunday 1 to Thursday 5 April 2012, in parallel with the 126th session of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. Further information on the session is now available under Past Meetings.
Venues for future ASGP meetings are as follows:
The ASGP is currently meeting in Kampala, Uganda, where members will discuss a range of subjects and elect a new Vice-President. More information and a selection of papers under discussion at the conference are available on this site.
In preparation for the release of the third issue of the World e-Parliament Report (http://www.ictparliament.org/world-e-parliament-reports) the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament has recently launched the Global Survey of ICT in Parliaments 2012, which will allow progress of e-parliaments to be measured including the changes due to recent technological developments.
The Survey was distributed by the Inter-Parliamentary Union to all national parliaments worldwide by post and via e-mail through the IPU national groups. A copy of the Survey and additional information are available on the website of the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament: www.ictparliament.org/globalsurvey
The deadline for the completion of the Survey is 30 March 2012.
The Association of Secretaries General met in Bern, Switzerland, from Monday 17 to Thursday 20 October 2011, in parallel with the 125th session of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. Further information on the session is now available under Past Meetings.
Venues for future ASGP meetings are as follows:
At its meeting on Tuesday 18 October, the ASGP elected Mr Marc Bosc, Deputy Clerk of the House of Commons of Canada, as its new President. Mr Bosc will take up his post from Thursday 20 October, after the close of the Bern meeting.
The Association of Secretaries General met in Panama City, Panama from Saturday 16 - Wednesday 20 April 2011, in parallel with the 124th session of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. Further information on the session is now available under
Past Meetings.
Venues for future ASGP meetings are as follows:
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World e-Parliament Conference is the international forum of the community of parliaments addressing, from both the political and technical perspectives, how the use of information and communication technology can help improve representation, transparency, accountability, openness, and effectiveness in the complex parliamentary environment. The
World e-Parliament Conference 2010
will take place on
21 and 22 October 2010 at the Pan-African Parliament in Midrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. The event is co-organized by the
United Nations, the
Inter-Parliamentary Union, the
Parliament of South Africa, the
Pan-African Parliament and the
Global Centre for ICT in Parliament
http://www.ictparliament.org/
The United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union released the World e-Parliament Report 2010
. The Report, prepared by the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament, intends to help legislatures to harness the potential benefits of ICT for their work and establish key goals and priorities for exploiting this valuable resource. While providing evidence of the complexities of e-parliament, the Report suggests ways to overcome some of the obstacles to the effective use of technology in parliamentary settings.
http://www.ictparliament.org/
The World e-Parliament Conference is the annual forum of the community of parliaments addressing, from both the policy and technical perspectives, how the use of information and communication technology can help improve representation, transparency, accountability, openness, and effectiveness in the complex parliamentary environment.
The World e-Parliament Conference 2009, to take place on 3, 4 and 5 November 2009 at the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., builds on the results of two previous conferences held respectively in Geneva (2007) and Brussels (2008), as well as on the findings of the
World e-Parliament Report 2008. The 2009 event is co-organized by the United Nations, the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the U.S. House of Representatives and the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament.
At its meeting on Tuesday 14 October, the ASGP elected Dr Hafnaoui AMRANI, Secretary General of the Council of the Nation of Algeria as its new President. Dr Amrani will take up his post from Thursday 16 October, after the close of the Geneva meeting.
At the ASGP session in Cape Town, Mr Brissi Lucas GUEHI, Secretary General of the National Assembly of Côte d’Ivoire, presented a communication on the African Network of Parliaments Staff 'Reseau Africain des Personnels des Parlements (RAPP)'. The main purposes of this network are to contribute to: parliament staff training; continuous improvement of their professional skills, and inter-parliamentary cooperation. 23 Parliaments and 16 countries, essentially African francophone states, are currently members. Further information on this Network is available at http://www.rappafrik.org.
A conference on 'Informing Democracy: Building Capacity to Meet Parliamentarians' Information and Knowledge Needs', organised jointly by the IFLA Section on Library and Research Services for Parliaments in cooperation with the IPU and ASGP, will be held in Geneva on Thursday 16 October 2008. Information about the conference is available on the 'Upcoming Meeting' page.
The next meeting of the ASGP will take place in Geneva between 13th and 16th October. There will be debates and communications on a number of interesting topics relating to parliamentary practice. Papers are available on the 'Upcoming Meeting' page. Papers from the ASGP's highly successful meeting in Cape Town in April are available on the 'Past Meetings' page.
On Thursday 28 February the President of the ASGP visited New York for the Second meeting of the Board of the Global Centre for ICT in parliament, in his capacity as advisor to the board.
1. I am writing to you because the subscription owed by your parliamentary chamber is overdue. The Executive Committee agreed at the Geneva session in October 2007 that I should write to all members of the ASGP whose subscriptions had not been received for more than two years. Each parliamentary chamber is responsible for its own costs.
1. The ASGP met for its autumn session in Geneva between 8-10 October. The first day was devoted to a specific theme – Communication and Parliament. Mr Gherardo CASINI (Global Centre of Information and Communication Technologies in Parliament), Mr Boris BERGANT and Mr Peter VICKERS (European Broadcasting Union, EBU) made presentations. A presentation by our colleague Mr Xavier ROQUES on “Parliament and Media” was postponed to our meeting in Cape Town. During the ASGP meeting, we had some interesting communications and discussions from Mr Edouard NDUWIMANA (Burundi), Mr Oleksiy SYDORENKO (Ukraine), Mr Tae-Rang KIM (Republic of Korea), Mr Alain DELCAMP (France), Mr Carlos HOFFMANN CONTRERAS (Chile), Mr Samuel Waweru NDINDIRI, (Kenya), Mr Ian HARRIS (Australia), Mr Brissi Lucas GUEHI (Côte d’Ivoire), Mr Oum SARITH (Cambodia) and Mr N.C. JOSHI, Acting Secretary General of the Rajya Sabha (India). Mr Martin CHUNGONG gave a presentation on the recent activities of the IPU. Mr Zingile A. DINGANI presented the organization of the next session (Spring 2008). At the session in Geneva, 24 new members were accepted. They are all listed on the website.
Following the presentation by Mr Gherardo Casini of the Global Centre of Information and Communication Technologies in Parliament, the questionnaire referred to by him is available at http://www.ictparliament.org/globalsurvey/
The meeting in Geneva is approaching and since our latest meeting in Bali I have been involved in a number of issues that I would like to tell you about in this letter. On the ASGP website you can find a convocation letter to the Geneva meeting and miscellaneous information including a draft agenda, etc.
1. I participated on 22 February in the conference “Public Service Broadcasting & Parliaments” in Brussels. The conference was organized by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) with the support of the EU Parliament's Audiovisual Services. For more information, see the ASGP website.
The new website of the ASGP has been launched on http://www.asgp.info/. The engagement of Ian Harris a Former President of the ASGP in setting up a working website for the ASGP and improving communication between members has been very valuable. The intention in setting up the new website has been to make use of all that has been done before but to modernise the ASGP website. This is an important step in working towards developing the Association's working methods. It is hoped that the new website can serve as an important tool for communication within the ASGP. The intention is also to raise significantly the level of service regarding the publication and updating of information on the website. The members of the Association should be able as a matter of course to seek information from the website on previous and future meetings, published communications and other events of relevance. The website is also intended to have a high degree of interactivity. It should be possible, for example, to use the website to send questions to colleagues within the organisation.