About eRepresentative

eRepresentativeis a research and development project that will create a virtual desktop to support the mobile elected Representative. The project is co-funded under the IST Programme by the European Commission and has project number FP6-2004-26985.

The eRepresentative project started in February 2006 and will end in May 2008. It involves representatives, civil servants and other stakeholders in five European Parliaments and Assemblies.

Innovations

The virtual desktop will allow personalised interaction with, and integration of, relevant information for elected representatives to support their day-to-day committee work.

  • Make systems able to share information on a broad enough scale.
  • Allow representatives to work away from Parliament with more robust security.
  • Provide the right information at the right time, applying 'intelligent agent' technologies in the Parliamentary environment.
  • Stimulate inter-assembly collaboration by enabling them to share documents.

The eRepresentative Desktop is:

  • A virtual desktop for representatives to work in the legislative process remotely, safely and easily: for example to draft a law, discuss it, introduce an amendment and vote its approval. All with appropriate security and without having to be present at every moment in the Assembly building.
  • Equipped with smart technologies to manage data overloads that representatives face in their work and enable seamless use of desktop with Parliaments' current systems.
  • Innovative user-friendly and mobile-capable security technologies to allow collaboration on legislative documents while meeting needs for integrity, authenticity and privacy.
eRepresentative is a project co-financed under the 6th Framework Programme of the European Union