‘The act of evaluating laws that a parliament has passed is known as Post Legislative Scrutiny’ [1]. In 2017, the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) completed a publication triplet on Post-Legislative Scrutiny (PLS). It now includes a Comparative Study of practices of PLS in selected parliaments, a Guide for Parliaments and a policy document with principles for PLS.
Posted by Dr Fotis Fitsilis on 10 Ιανουαρίου, 2018
https://fitsilis.wordpress.com/2018/01/10/pls/
Interdisciplinary science at its best – Be part of it!
On the eve of 2018 a new crowdsourcing platform came to life. The Hellenic Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Team represents the first scientific crowdsourcing initiative that aims exclusively at the processing and study of parliamentary data. Naturally, the application, handling and further development of OCR processes stand in the core of our endeavor.
Posted by Dr Fotis Fitsilis on 3 Ιανουαρίου, 2018
https://fitsilis.wordpress.com/2018/01/03/hellenic-ocr-team/
On 31 August 2017 I presented the topic ‘Advancing capacities of representative institutions: a proposal’ at the Parliamentary Capacity Building Institute of the Argentinian Chamber of Deputies (Instituto de Capacitación Parlamentaria – Cámara de Diputados de la Nación Argentina). The presentation via teleconference was organized by the Foreign Affairs Office of the Chamber of Deputies and was attended by several parliamentary officials and employees.
Posted by Dr Fotis Fitsilis on 5 Σεπτεμβρίου, 2017
https://fitsilis.wordpress.com/2017/09/05/my-presentation-at-the-chamber-of-deputies-of-argentina/
Ως «Ευαγγελιακά» έχουν καταγραφεί τα αιματηρά επεισόδια που έλαβαν χώρα στις 8 Νοεμβρίου του 1901 στην Αθήνα με αφορμή τη δημοσίευση από την εφημερίδα Ακρόπολις των Ευαγγελίων μεταφρασμένων στη δημοτική γλώσσα από τον Αλέξανδρο Πάλλη.
Posted by Dr Fotis Fitsilis on 28 Αυγούστου, 2017
https://fitsilis.wordpress.com/2017/08/28/%ce%b7-%cf%80%ce%b1%cf%81%ce%bf%cf%85%cf%83%ce%af%ce%b1-%ce%bc%ce%bf%cf%85-%cf%83%cf%84%ce%b9%cf%82-%ce%ba%ce%bf%ce%b9%ce%bd%ce%bf%ce%b2%ce%bf%cf%85%ce%bb%ce%b5%cf%85%cf%84%ce%b9%ce%ba%ce%ad%cf%82/
The 13th Workshop of Parliamentary Scholars and Parliamentarians took place between the 29th and the 30th of July 2017 at the Wroxton College in Wroxton, Oxfordshire, UK. The 1st Workshop was held at the Berlin Science Centre in 1994. Its success led to it being a biennial event. A one-of-its-kind gathering of all relevant stakeholders around representative institutions. It is no coincidence that the workshop is sponsored, among others, by the Inter-Parliamentary Union, which closely monitors all contributions and presentations.
Posted by Dr Fotis Fitsilis on 11 Αυγούστου, 2017
https://fitsilis.wordpress.com/2017/08/11/impressions-from-wroxton/
Check online my new article on «Content Reconstruction of Parliamentary Questions» (31 July 2017).
Posted by Dr Fotis Fitsilis on 10 Αυγούστου, 2017
https://fitsilis.wordpress.com/2017/08/10/paper-content-reconstruction/
My new article on «Implementing structured public access to the legal reports on bills and law proposals of the Scientific Service of the Hellenic Parliament» just went online (13 July 2017).
Abstract
In an era of end-to-end digitalization in parliamentary institutions, open data and established printed and electronic publication formats for contemporary and future content, the old, non-digitized and potentially corroded content still poses a great challenge in terms of preservation and promoting efficient usage.
Posted by Dr Fotis Fitsilis on 17 Ιουλίου, 2017
https://fitsilis.wordpress.com/2017/07/17/paper-implementing-structured-public-access-to-the-legal-reports-on-bills-and-law-proposals-of-the-scientific-service-of-the-hellenic-parliament/
My conference paper on «Implementing Digital Parliament Innovative Concepts for Citizens and Policy Makers» went first online on 13 May 2017.
Abstract
The organizational stability of Parliaments comes in direct contradiction with rapid progress in digital technology in recent decades, particularly in the ICT domain.
Posted by Dr Fotis Fitsilis on 17 Ιουλίου, 2017
https://fitsilis.wordpress.com/2017/07/17/paper-implementing-digital-parliament-innovative-concepts-for-citizens-and-policy-makers/
An official visit of the Hellenic Parliament Research Service to the European Parliament Research Service (EPRS) took place on 28-29 June 2017. I was very fortunate to be part of this historic mission, as it represented the first official visit of our service to a foreign parliament in 30 years! (περισσότερα…)
Posted by Dr Fotis Fitsilis on 14 Ιουλίου, 2017
https://fitsilis.wordpress.com/2017/07/14/visiting-the-european-parliament-reseach-service/
Το κτίριο της Νομικής Σχολής του Πανεπιστημίου Complutense στη Μαδρίτη
Ακολουθεί η συνέντευξή μου στον δημοσιογράφο Τόμη Τσομπανίδη – Karditsaportal.gr
Posted by Dr Fotis Fitsilis on 12 Απριλίου, 2017
https://fitsilis.wordpress.com/2017/04/12/%cf%83%cf%85%ce%bd%ce%ad%ce%bd%cf%84%ce%b5%cf%85%ce%be%ce%b7-%ce%b5%cf%80%ce%b9%cf%83%ce%ba%ce%ad%cf%80%cf%84%ce%b7%cf%82-%ce%ba%ce%b1%ce%b8%ce%b7%ce%b3%ce%b7%cf%84%ce%ae%cf%82-%cf%83%cf%84%ce%b7/
Dr Fotios Fitsilis 