GOVERNMENT HAS A THREE-YEAR information communications technology (ICT) strategic plan to enhance and improve the efficiency of the Parliament of Barbados that will see the edited official record, Hansard, available within 24 hours by June next year.
Along with eliminating the current backlog of the official record by March 2013, the plan also calls for the development, by September this year, of a parliamentary digital repository for all official documents.
This comes ahead of a three-day regional workshop at the Accra Beach Hotel from tomorrow until Friday on The Impact Of New Technologies In The Transformation Of The Legislative Branch: From Awareness, To Planning, To Action.
It is organized by the United Nations, through its Global Centre for ICT in Parliament, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Caribbean Centre for Development Administration (CARICAD) and is expected to attract 60 participants, including presidents, speakers, MPs, clerks and supporting staff from the 16 beneficiary parliaments in the region.
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