Α framework for re-education of public administration in legal informatics tools and patterns by Dr. Fotis Fitsilis

1. Α framework for re-education of public
administration in legal informatics tools and
patterns​
Dr. Fotis Fitsilis
Head of Scientific Documentation & Supervision
Scientific Service – Hellenic Parliament
15 July 2020

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Structure
 Motivation
 State of play
 Proposed approach
 Use case
 Conditions

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Motivation
 Enhanced accountability & transparency
 (Linked) open data, ontologies and standards
 Legal informatics systems and services
 European Interoperability Framework (EIF)
 (Roughly) the same set of public administrators
 What about the educational aspect?

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State of play
 Relevant expertise:
 We are hiring!
 We are re-educating!
 Trade-off
 Parameters: target group, timing, duration, focus etc.
National Schools of
Governance
Job postings

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Proposed approach
How to (re-)educate public administrators?
 What to teach?  EIF and nature of systems
(open/proprietary)
 Whom to educate?  stakeholder analysis
 Who will educate?  coaches/teachers
 By which means?  traditional, online (sync/async), MOOCs,
mentoring, training-on-the-job, …

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Use case
 What?  LEOS - Legislation Editing Open Software
 Whom?  National School of Public Administration…
 Who?  Public sector experts*
 Means?  Digital lab
 Follow-up  Courses for the wider administration
* Technical support: Hellenic OCR Team

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Conditions
 Political will
 Stakeholder consultation (including with EU instances)
 Long-term strategy
 Well-thought action plan
 Decision on systems and services
 Prioritization

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Thank you!
fitsilisf@parliament.gr
https://fitsilis.gr