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Dr. Fotis Fitsilis

A look back on 2023

As we step into 2024, let’s revisit the diverse accomplishments of my 2023 research journey. In addition to publications, impactful talks and public appearances have provided rich insights in the study of parliaments. Many thanks to my colleagues, collaborators and my entire team for contributing to this journey.

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ARPC workshop

A workshop on “Advanced analysis and recognition of parliamentary corpora” (ARPC) will take place at the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition conference (ICDAR 2024, 30 August – 4 September 2024) that will take place is Athens, Greece.

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Call for Papers: ARPC workshop at the ICDAR 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on
Advanced analysis and recognition of parliamentary corpora (ARPC)

The ARPC organizing committee invites papers for the workshop to be held in physical format during the ICDAR 2024 conference (August 30 – September 4, 2024) in Athens, Greece. The exact date of the ARPC workshop will be communicated soon.

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Interoperability Legal Patterns

My insightful conference paper at the ICEGOV 2021 in Athens together with Victoria Kalogirou investigates the vast possibilities of legal informatics to advance systemic interoperability in the case of Greece.

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LEOS diversification

This is already our second joint paper with Sotiris Leventis and Vasileios Anastasiou on the transformation of parliamentary control. Here, the Legislation Editing Open Software (LEOS) is used as the primary system, which is linked through software agents to an independent data source.

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Digital parliamentary diplomacy

I am proud of our joint working paper with Stelios Stavridis on digital parliamentary diplomacy, which has just appeared as the most recent of the Hellenic Observatory’s GreeSE discussion papers.

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Parliaments and AI

My latest publication on the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in parliaments has just been published at The Journal of Legislative Studies! As one of the first academic publications on the topic, it analyses the relevant case study from the Committee for the Future in the Finnish Parliament and draws conclusions for the digital evolution of legislatures.

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Parliaments in the pandemic

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic took whole societies by surprise. Naturally, parliaments worldwide did not remain untouched. Following months of research, my team and I came out with a set of related presentations and articles. Read and comment freely!

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A summer full of science

What a summer so far! Full of (virtual) meetings and events: ReMeP, Samos Summit, HCII, Digital Humanities, EDS Summer University and a virtual conference in beloved Argentina. Read the bullets below, check the presentations and watch the videos!

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Media appearances

In the first week of June 2020, I had a couple of interesting media appearances to introduce the topic of digital regulation to the public.

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Knowledge management as a parliamentary challenge

This is the beginning of a series of brief articles originally posted on LinkedIn that have been developed to highlight significant concepts and argumentation in relation to parliamentary development and governance matters. The articles have been jointly developed by Dr. Fotios Fitsilis and Bruce Philip Todd and are pieces of a larger mosaic soon to be put together in the form of a book covering the sector. The first article deals with knowledge management in the parliamentary context.

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Ανάλυση δραστηριοτήτων 2004-2009

Μετά από σχετική έρευνα στο αρχείο μου και σε ανοικτές πηγές, ιστοσελίδες και ΦΕΚ, παρουσιάζω έναν πρώτο κατάλογο της δημόσιας δραστηριότητάς μου για την περίοδο 2004-2011, κατά την οποία υπηρέτησα σε δημόσιες θέσεις στο υπουργείο Ανάπτυξης (2004-2007) και τη Βουλή των Ελλήνων (2007-2009).

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Workshop Report: IFLAPARL 2019

The new IFLAPARL Newsletter (February 2020 edition, pp. 6-7) contains the full report on our workshop during the 35th Pre-Conference of Parliamentary Research and Library Service, which was titled “Science and Innovation in Parliamentary Libraries and Research Services”.

Impressions from the ICON-S in Florence

The Italian chapter of the ICON-S organized its second conference, which took place at the premises of UniFI, Università degli Studi di Firenze, in Florence, from 22nd to 23 November 2019. This international public law conference was titled Le Nuove Tecnologie e il Futuro del Diritto Pubblico (New Technologies and the Future of Public Law).

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Διδασκαλία αρχών τεχνολογίας και προγραμματισμού (συνεχής ανανέωση)

Στο πλαίσιο των εξωσχολικών δραστηριοτήτων που προσφέρει ο Σύλλογος Γονέων και Κηδεμόνων του 5ου και 11ου Δημοτικού Σχολείου Αγίας Παρασκευής για το σχολικό έτος 2019-2020 λαμβάνει χώρα και η νέα δραστηριότητα «Αρχές Τεχνολογίας και Προγραμματισμού». Η διάρκειά της είναι 1 ώρα την εβδομάδα και απευθύνεται σε μαθητές όλων των τάξεων του δημοτικού.

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Hellenic OCR Team’s second anniversary!

Something big happened back in November 2017; our scientific crowdsourcing initiative, the Hellenic OCR Team, came to life! This November, members and supporters celebrate our second anniversary. Look out for a special monthly meetup and get introduced into the state-of-the-art processing and analysis of parliamentary data.

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Open datasets in Figshare

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The opening of three very interesting data sets is announced today! These data sets originate from three distinct research sectors that are being pursued by our Parliamentary Foresight Lab, a virtual research laboratory in the Department for Scientific Documentation and Supervision at the Scientific Service of the Hellenic Parliament.

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Dr. Fotis Fitsilis

As engineer and economist Dr. Fotis Fitsilis has been active in a broad range of fields, from telecommunications and logistics to management and governance. After a career as a research engineer in Germany, he worked as Special Advisor for Business and Industry in the Greek Ministry of Development. Since 2007 he has been working in the Hellenic Parliament.  Learn More..

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