9 July 2013 National Assembly website updates

9 July 2013 National Assembly website updates

Tuesday, 9 July 2013

National Assembly Website Introduces Live Streaming

Today, the Chairman of the Committee on Administrative, Budgetary, Mandate and Immunity Issues, Zoran Babic, and National Assembly Secretary General Jana Ljubicic presented the innovations the National Assembly has introduced onto its website to intensify its transparency toward the citizens and public.


At the press conference organised on the occasion, the Chairman of the Committee on Administrative, Budgetary, Mandate and Immunity Issues, Zoran Babic stressed that the National Assembly keeps track of new communication technologies and is determined to use them. The National Assembly committees are already using the e-Parliament format and, starting today, the National Assembly’s up-to-date webpage offers the Serbian citizens the use of live streaming of all the National Assembly sessions, committee sittings, public hearings, activities of the National Assembly Speaker and all the National Assembly activities, stressed Babic. Via the National Assembly’s website the citizens would be able to watch all the National Assembly activities at any moment by using the event archives and future event announcements. This is an example of the National Assembly’s transparency and outreach to the citizens, which was the current legislature’s wish – to leave a better and more modern National Assembly to the future generations, concluded the Chairman of the Committee on Administrative, Budgetary, Mandate and Immunity Issues.
National Assembly Secretary General Jana Ljubicic said that this would allow the citizens full insight into the National Assembly’s activities. This has been one of the current legislature’s fundamental plans since the beginning of its work, and today, said Ljubicic, the Assembly has taken a big step forward in achieving its goal. For the purpose, the National Assembly signed a year’s contract with the company Videonet d.o.o. which will, for the price of 826,790.00 RSD a month, provide best quality and up-to-date broadcasting services. This will also lead to savings in the National Assembly budget as it would establish conference links with other parliaments, thus reducing travel costs. She said she was pleased by the National Assembly’s website, which is among the better ones in the region and contains data on the National Assembly’s activities from 1991 to 2012. Introducing live streaming on the National Assembly’s website does not mean that the broadcasts on RTS would cease, on the contrary, RTS would continue to broadcast the plenary sessions as stipulated by its contract with the National Assembly. What is new is the fact that, besides the RTS broadcast, the citizens will be able to follow the MPs’ activities not only in the plenaries, but also in committee sittings and other activities organised by the National Assembly, concluded the National Assembly Secretary General.

All interested parties can follow the National Assembly sessions, sittings of all the National Assembly working bodies, MPs’ press conferences (allowing the journalists the option of long-distance video feeds), public hearings, activities of the National Assembly Speaker, as well as all other events organised by the National Assembly, on www.parlament.rs, via their laptop and desktop computers, mobile phones and tablet devices.
The number of users who can follow the live streaming or search the archive simultaneously is unlimited.
All the broadcasts will be archived and available on the National Assembly’s website with a quick and easy search option of both video and audio formats. The TV stations can link to the signal, the quality of which is, just like the archive, fit for broadcasting. All additional information about broadcasting is available at prenosi@parlament.rs.
In addition to the live feed, breaking news can be followed via the website’s news ticker which is updated automatically.
The data on the National Assembly in Numbers segment has been updated in the sections related to the National Assembly’s activities starting from 1991 and the number of citizens which have visited the National Assembly from 2008 to 2012.
In addition to the introduction of e-Parliament, the e-documents have begun to be linked with the website which will enable a better and quicker exchange of information with the public.



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  • 9.30 - press conference of the MPs of the SERBIA CENTRE - SRCE Parliamentary Group (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)

  • 10.00 - continuation of the First Sitting of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, 14th Legislature (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square)

  • 10.00 - press conference of the MP Sandra Bozic (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)

  • 10.15 - press conference of the MPs of the People’s Movement of Serbia - New Face of Serbia Parliamentary Group (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)

  • 10.30 - press conference of MP Milija Miletic (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)

  • 11.00 - press conference of MP Aleksandar Mirkovic (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)

  • 12.00 - press conference of MP Biljana Pantic Pilja (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)

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