Presentation at the Legislators’ Forum on Innovations in Democracy November 15, 2022 Washington, DC United States

1. Dr. Fotis Fitsilis
Scientific Service, Hellenic Parliament
November 15, 2022

2. The players
 Hellenic Parliament, Scientific Service
 Hellenic OCR Team & collaborators
 AI study prepared and implemented by:
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Hellenic OCR Team Open Government Institute

3. The Hellenic OCR Team
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 Scientific initiative – volunteered research
 Expert network that relies on crowdsourcing
 Project based work
 Personal and institutional members (currently ~60)

4. AI Solutions
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 Two-step approach:
1. Brainstorming method (small team of experts)
2. Parliamentary workshop (MPs and practitioners)
 Tool: Xleap, https://www.xleap.net
 Cloud-based online variant for brainstorming
 Parameters:
 Relevance values: from 0 (irrelevant) to 10 (must-have)
 Priority values: from 0 (2021) to 10 (2030)

5. Implementation
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 Brainstorming: July 2020
 Workshop: March 2021 (GR) & August 2022 (ARG)
 Composition (GR): 14 participants from different
sectors:
 Research Service
 IT Unit
 Strategy Unit
 Library Unit
 Emergency response Unit
 Projects Unit
 MPs & advisors

6. Brainstorming results
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13 14
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37
19
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47
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0
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10
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25
30
35
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50 Brainstorming results: 210

7. Analysis
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Data for parliamentarians (GR)
# AI proposal (short titles;
sorted after relevance)
1 Voting systems
2 Text analytics
3 “Smart MP“ systems
4 Smart proceedings/minutes
5 AI-based subtitling
6 Workflow management
7 Digital assistant
8 Smart messaging service
9 Smart debater
10 Chatbot
11 Automatic translation in real time
12 AI-based activity control
13 Predictive analytics

8. The way forward
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Prioritize solutions (indicative)
1. AI-based substantive review of contributions from
associations, stakeholders, and lobbyists
2. GR Relevance: 8.00; SD: 0.14; Date: 02.2024; SD: 0.20
3. Analyze civic contributions to determine whether they
meet minimum requirements for further consideration
4. blue collar labour-intensive
5. Techlonogies: Text analytics, sentiment analysis,
summarization, topic modeling

9. Contact & disclaimer
web: fitsilis.gr
E-mail: fitsilisf@parliament.gr
The information and views set out in this presentation are only those of the
author and do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the Hellenic
Parliament
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