Tuesday, June 17, 2008, Hotel Golf Jupiter 2, 9:00 - 10:30  

Chair:
Paula Tiihonen, Committee Counsel        
Clerk to the Committee, The Committee for the Future, Parliament of Finland

Presenters:
David Cope, Professor & Director 
Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology – POST, Houses of Parliament, United Kingdom
& Member, European Parliamentary Technology Assessment – EPTA   
Jan Staman, Director
Rathenau Instituut, Den Haag, The Netherlands
& President of Experts, European Parliamentary Technology Assessment - EPTA
József Veress, Member of the Assembly
Committee on European Affairs, National Assembly of Hungary

Active participant:
Tatjana Mizori Zupan, Secretary, Head of IT Projects
Directorate for e-Government and Administrative Processes, Ministry for Public Administration, Slovenia

Workshop outline

The purpose of the workshop is to discuss the models of handling new ideas in politics, especially at the parliamentary level. There are very different kind of solutions on how to organize future oriented parliamentary work, how to make politics innovative and visionary at the national and at the international level.

Most developed methods are used in technology assessment. In that field there is even European network among national parliaments and partners called EPTA (European Parliamentary Technology Assessment). It's presidency this year is in the Netherlands and the chairman is Jan Staman, Director of the Rathenau Instituut in den Haag who is among the workshop’s presenters.

In this workshop we try to connect people who have a bit longer experience in working with new ideas and technology, visions and innovations with the parliaments, as well as those who are just starting.