2: Information and Communications Technology

Promote the use of ICT as a means to modernize parliamentary processes, increase transparency, accountability and participation, and improve inter-parliamentary cooperation.

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The Centre’s activities include, among others, the convening of capacity-building workshops and training seminars - involving parliamentary leaders, members and officials as well as international experts, the organization of study tours in cooperation with national and regional parliaments, the dissemination of information and the provision of technical assistance to parliaments in developing countries and in emerging democracies in different formats. Furthermore, the Centre organizes with partners the annual World e-Parliament Conference as a forum for best practices exchange among legislatures and releases the biannual World e-Parliament Report, a unique document based on a worldwide survey which is used as a baseline for measuring advances in ICT adoption by parliaments around the world.

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