Country report Iceland 2014 The 14th Nordic Parliaments IT-conference Oslo, 28th - 29th August 2014 Thorbjörg Árnadóttir, Head of IT-office

New organization The 14 th Nordic Parliaments IT-conference 2014

New location The 14 th Nordic Parliaments IT-conference 2014

IT infrastructure & services Users about 200 PC desktops about 120 Laptop computers about 80  Single PC concept for MP´s since 2009 iPad 100 Various mobile phones, mostly Samsung og iPhones The 14 th Nordic Parliaments IT-conference 2014

IT infrastructure & services, cont. Servers  Windows 2000/2012R2“, Linux, Solaris Server virtualization: Citrix XenServer IBM data storage Older equipment now mostly used for security cameras  IBM Blade Center & EMC SAN storage The 14 th Nordic Parliaments IT-conference 2014

& Exchange 2013 Exchange server and Outlook 2013  Updated the Exchange Server this summer  Mailboxes and other data 650 GB  Possible problems due to mailbox size The 14 th Nordic Parliaments IT-conference 2014

Outsourcing Data center Backup, 5,5 TB Network security  monitoring of internal and external systems The 14 th Nordic Parliaments IT-conference 2014

Operating Budget Total IT Budget 148 kr. 140 kr. 111 kr. 87 kr. 100 kr. Total Budget kr kr kr kr kr. % of total budget 8%6%5%4% Total IT Budget 955 € 903 € 716 € 561 € 645 € Total Budget € € € € € % of total budget8%6%5%4% Amounts are in Milljon ISK. 1 EUR = 155 ISK. Amounts are in thousands EUR. 2013, election year: the equipment/hardware budget was 50 MIL. ISK / EUR

iPad Very popular, used in committees and in the session hall Sim Cards ( closed for Data Roaming abroad ) Management  MDM from Airwatch  Secure Content Locker  Change PIN every four months

Telecommunications Responsibility of IT Department since 2008 Currently Nortel PBX Telephone System  Bought in 1993  Was updated regularly Next: testing Avaya Telephone System next month The 14 th Nordic Parliaments IT-conference 2014

Mobile phone cost

Social media Twitter (since 2010) Facebook The 14 th Nordic Parliaments IT-conference 2014

Statistics Number of parliamentary meetings Number of session days Number of bills, questions & resolutions Number of parliamentary documents Number of hours Number of speeches Speeches and documents from 1946 are now available on our web site

Disabled MPs

Better access – new podium The 14 th Nordic Parliaments IT-conference 2014

Special Investigation Commissions In October 2011 Althingi established two Special Investigation Commissions  Investigation of the Icelandic Housing Financing Fund etc. Finished júlí months  Investigation of the Icelandic Savings Banks. Finished 10 april months  Total cost 678 Mil.ISK. or EUR. The 14 th Nordic Parliaments IT-conference 2014

Need new... We got Independent consultants to evaluate our infrastructure and systems In general no surprises, that is …  we need more money  our parliamentary systems are old  we need holistic approach The 14 th Nordic Parliaments IT-conference 2014

Record management system In 2011 we got new record management system in “through the backdoor” Endorsed by the management team System requirement not completed Probably our most controversial system The 14 th Nordic Parliaments IT-conference 2014

What is next? Figure out the best way to get resources to uppdate more or less all parliamentary systems. The 14 th Nordic Parliaments IT-conference 2014

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