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Crowdsourcing the Digital Parliament – The Case of the Hellenic OCR Team
1. Crowdsourcing the Digital Parliament –
The Case of the Hellenic OCR Team
Fotios Fitsilis and George Mikros
15th Wroxton Workshop
30 July 2022
Parliaments & public
engagement panel
2. Content – 5 W’s and an H
What
Why
Who
Where
When
How
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3. What is the Hellenic OCR Team?
Scientific initiative – volunteered research
Based on crowdsourcing
Expert network
Project based work
Personal and institutional members (currently ~60)
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4. Why it matters
Links parliaments with
society
Involves interested
stakeholders
Offers geographic,
disciplinary, & sectoral
diversity
Has global outreach
Tackles a broad range of
research objectives
Research objectives
Holistic study of
parliamentary corpora
Design &
implementation of
digital platforms
Citizen’s engagement
with representative
institutions
Challenges &
application of emerging
technologies
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8. Where and since when the Team exist
Timing
Established – Fall 2017
Transformation into
expert network –
January 2022
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Global initiative
4 continents
14 countries
Top representation
Greece, 62%
Italy, 8%
UK, Germany, Qatar, 4%
9. How we work
Organised in working groups – regular & ad hoc
Offer training and targeted capacity building
Addressing contemporary trends & challenges
Following the members’ abilities & requests
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Time investment
N=50
10. Partners
National parliaments
Universities
Research centers
NGOs
Private entities
Current activities
The Team currently undertakes 4
main research activities:
Building of an ecosystem of apps and
services with the potential to advance
inter-institutional interoperability
Integrated text analytics of
parliamentary corpora (e.g. motion of
no confidence)
Study of application on emerging
technologies in the parliamentary
workspace
Advancing parliamentary diplomacy via
development and use of digital
platforms
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11. Out-of-the-box
approach
Inherent flexibility,
quick reflexes, & the
disruptive nature of
emergent technology
makes it difficult to
approximate the
evolutionary path of
the Hellenic OCR Team
The Team’s future
Expansion (rate ~10 members/year)
Interconnection with other
parliamentary projects, networks,
& initiatives
IPU
Inter Pares
IPEN
Hansard at Huddersfield
IPIs
Potential institutionalisation
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