Summary - 9th EPRI conference, Lisbon, 19 & 20 March, 2007

On 19- 20 March, the Ninth European Conference of Members of Parliaments on Information and Communication Technologies (EPRI Conference) took place at the Portuguese Parliament in Lisbon.

Following the invitation of the President of the Assembly of the Portuguese Republic, Mr. Jaime Gama, 105 participants, amongst them 59 delegates from the parliamentary assemblies of 20 EU member states, met in Lisbon for the Ninth European Conference of Members of National Parliaments on Information and Communication Technologies.

The subject of the conference “Simplifying the complex – Creating the space for complex political topics on the web” marks one of the major challenges that parliamentarians and parliamentary organisation have to deal with.

Parliaments and parliamentarians increasingly develop and produce formats and content for today’s Web-based information and communication services and media. It is generally assumed – yet not proven – that a strong presence and an active interaction in these web-based media space is essential for maintaining citizen’s participation in parliamentary decision making at a satisfactory level.
Parliamentarians need to develop and promote means and tools that provide them with an interface with their constituency which has to be at the same time broad in scope, easy to manage, and filigree in terms of content presentation and discussion. They have to cope with the fast development of technologies and formats (IPTV, Web 2.0, “viral” content, etc.)....

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