by Fotis Fitsilis | Jan 27, 2020 | Newsletter, Open data, Parliaments, technology, Uncategorized
It is my very true pleasure to announce that my proposal, on behalf of the Hellenic Parliament, for an invited session at the ICEGOV 2020 UN conference in Athens has been accepted! ICEGOV 2020 will be held on 23-25 September 2020. This session titled “Standards...
by Fotis Fitsilis | Jan 27, 2020 | Newsletter, Open data, Parliaments, technology, Uncategorized
On Saturday 25 January 2020 I appeared at the Hellenic Parliament Television show “Member’s Card” to discuss about innovation in politics and parliamentarism. Together with host Matroni Dikeakou, Kostas Barkas, MP and Stefanos Loukopoulos from...
by Fotis Fitsilis | Oct 29, 2019 | Articles in English, Hellenic OCR Team, Open data, Parliaments, technology
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...
by Fotis Fitsilis | Oct 29, 2019 | Articles in English, Law, Open data, Parliaments, technology
A book presentation and the following discussion are great moments for every author. Moreover, it does not get any better when these take place in the majestic environment of Università Degli Studi di Firenze, Italy, during an ICON-S conference, the International...
by Fotis Fitsilis | Oct 9, 2019 | Articles in English, Open data, Parliaments, technology
Glad to have participated on September 26th, 2019, to a highly specialized expert meeting on Digital Democracy organized by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Greece and Cyprus. The panel I spoke at was specialized on data protection and I presented the topic...
by Fotis Fitsilis | Aug 29, 2019 | Articles in English, Hellenic OCR Team, technology, Uncategorized, Τεχνολογία
The Hellenic OCR Team announces the finalization of the software development project Tool for Extracting Quantitative Text Profiles. The code was developed by Panagiotis Papantonakis for GSoC 2019. Project management was undertaken by Hellenic OCR Team members, so...
