Meeting APPsTested among Danish MP's

Ole Søndergaard, Head of IT Operations,

Danish Parliament (The Folketing)

iPhones and iPads in Danish Parliament

1. iPhones: Everyone

2. iPads: MPs only

We need an APP strategy !

2 kinds of APP’s tested

1. A Website APP for iPads- target group: MPs - home-made - short cut to parliamentary information

2. A Generalized Meeting APP - target group: Municipalities + … - vender-made - meetings: Agendas + documents + annotations

1. Website APP for iPads

Calender NewsDocumentsMPs biographiesCommittee Activities

Preferences

TV

transm

ission

from

meetingsSaid by MP: - ‘A Website APP, dedicates to MPs, is indeed much better than the general web’ ! - ’50-80 % of my work with the general web-site now has moved to the new Website APP‘ !

2. Generalized Meeting APP

Said by MP: - ‘Paperless meetings two years from now’ !- ’Social sharing of notes / comments to will change parliamentary process radically‘ !

A little more about theGeneralized Meeting APP

ComplexDatabases

atDanish

Parliament

Meetings1. Committees

2. Agendas3. Committee

documents4. Shared

Notation

Simple Database

at APP Vendor

Committees

Business and CommerceCultureJustice

Integration

Social ServicesFood

Environment

Meeting dates

Agenda

Committee

documents

Notes

entered

from

iPads

Notes entered

from pc’s

Loose thoughtsfor an

App Strategy !

Native for internals and HTML5 for externals !

- Parliament still decides equipment for MP’s and staff ?

Strategyloose thoughts

Separate APPs for separate user groups !

- We have to take care quite a number of APPs ?- We are ready to deliver support for public too ?

Strategyloose thoughts

Strategyloose thoughts

We are prepared to feed a lot of external APPs

- Be prepared to concentrate on delivering data ? - We are now synchronizers, parallel to Exchange / Outlook ?

Strategyloose thoughts

We don’t care if APPs are quite the same !

- A matter of individual taste among MPs ? - ‘Bring-Your-Own-APP’ principle

Strategyloose thoughts

Do not compete APP Complexes !

-We can’t beat them in features?-The Social Dimension / interaction (Facebook) in focus?

Strategyloose thoughts

We are ready to support Party Groups as well !

- Party Groups need meeting APPs too !- Our common infrastructure will be rewarded ?

- Manual feed is an important supplement to the automated ?

Thanks