1. E-legislation as part of
parliament’s digital strategy
FOTIS FITSILIS & DIMITRIS KORYZIS
HELLENIC PARLIAMENT
IRIS 2022
24-26 FEBRUARY 2022
WORKSHOP ON ELECTRONIC LAW-MAKING

2. Structure
 Motivation
 Digital Transformation (DT)
 Digital Strategy
 E-legislation Path
 Summary
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3. Motivation
 Parliaments are complex organizations
 Elements: process, people, culture, structure, ICT systems
 Organisational vs. digital transformation
 Ongoing digitalization in society
 Parliaments as representative organs should not be left
behind  disentanglement from society
 Assembling human activities with digital features in a
hybrid environment
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4. Digital Transformation: Framework
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Koryzis et al. (2021)

5. Digital Strategy
 Mostly strategic plans; only few possess a digital strategy
 DT of legislative function part of a strategic perspective
 Gradual approach
 Digital strategy & action plan as starting points
 Action plan around parliamentary data
 ‘Whole-digital’ approach: involve stakeholders in critical
stages of the policy-making process
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6. E-legislation Actions
 ICT system development based on a digital strategy
 Digitalisation of parliamentary functions
 E-legislation roadmap to include parliamentary
business procedures
 Identification and planning of digitalisation actions
 Upgrade existing and develop new ParlTech systems
 Equilibrium between classic bureaucracy and
electronic/automated legislative processes
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7. E-legislation: tools
 LEOS: Legislation Editing Open Software)
 Hellenic OCR Team: a crowdsourcing initiative for
the processing & analysis of parliamentary data
 ManyLaws: Big Open Legal Data
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8. Ongoing work
 Increase of institutional transparency and accountability through
the digitalization of legislative and oversight processes
(Fitsilis & Mikros, 2021; Leventis et al., 2021)
 Promotion of parliamentary diplomacy through a data-driven
approach (Fitsilis & Stavridis, 2021)
 Enhancement of evidence-based parliamentary research by
using advanced text analytics (Papantonakis et al., 2020)
 Advancement of administrative efficiency by implementing
electronic workflow management systems
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9. Research outlook+
Prioritisation:
 Legal AI
 Recommender systems
 Machine learning solutions
 Rapid digital transformation
 (Parliamentary) Internet of Things
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+ Gartner (2021)

10. Summary and outlook
 Dissemination of knowledge and values
 Equilibrium with hybrid actions (real vs. digital life)
 Ethical values and regulatory framework
 Determination of regulatory steps not to curb innovation
 Strengthening of Egov community
 Development & support of ParlTech tools & processes
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11. Thank you
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fitsilisf@parliament.gr
dkoryzis@parliament.gr
https://hellenicparliament.gr
The information and views set out in this presentation are only those of the authors and do
not reflect the official opinion of the Hellenic Parliament