e-Democracy Webinar
e-Democracy & the Legislative Enterprise Architecture
What does this mean to the Legislative IT Community and your Data Consumers?
A Webinar presented by Propylon
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Join 3 industry leading Legislative IT professionals as we discuss the design, adoption and implementation of an e-Democracy compliant Legislative Enterprise Architecture. Why is this open data transparent standard important and how has it been successfully implemented? Topics for the discussion include:
- What is an e-Democracy compliant Legislative Enterprise Architecture and why is it important to the Legislative IT community. Why you as an Legislative IT professional should be actively involved in adhering to the standard and helping to drive Its adoption and refinement.
- How do you train, prepare for, design and implement an e-Democracy compliant Legislative Enterprise Architecture leveraging your IT staff?
- What are the benefits and value of an e-Democracy compliant Legislative Enterprise Architecture to your IT organization as well as your Legislative and other data consumers?
About the speakers:
Don C. Heiman, Chief Technology Officer, Kansas State Legislature
Currently the Chief Information Technology Officer (CITO) for the Kansas State Legislature, Don Heiman has also served as CITO for the Executive Branch of the Kansas State government. Over the years, Don has held a great many positions of leadership with in the technology arm of State government. His background in economics and broad public sector experience has positioned him to be a thought leader who is widely published. He's written extensively in organizational management, information technologies and the role of technology in government.
Sean McGrath, Chief Technology Officer, Propylon Inc.
Sean is the CTO of Propylon. He has twenty five years of experience in the IT industry, most of it in the legal and regulatory publishing space. He holds a first class honors degree in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin. He served as an invited expert to the W3C special interest group that created the XML standard. He is the author of three books on markup languages published in the Dr Charles F. Goldfarb Series on Open Information Management, published by Prentice Hall. Sean is based in Lawrence, Kansas where he lives with his wife and three children.
Jason J. Steckler, Legislative Council, Director of Information Technology, North Dakota Legislative Branch.
Jason J. Steckler is the Legislative Council Director of Information Technology for the North Dakota Legislative Branch. Under his direction and leadership the state has engaged on a project to implement an enterprise architecture of IT systems for the legislature. The project focus has been documented business process definitions, technology migration, simplified systems integration and maintenance, improved tools and an open data format at the heart of the systems. Thus allowing information to be available to those who need it when they need it. The project allows for the state to take advantage of new technologies to better support the staff, members and constituents of the State for years to come.
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