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From October 16–18, 2023, the National Assembly Research Services (NARS) held the 12th International Seminar for Parliamentary Research Services. Despite the interruption caused by the pandemic, the avid participation of 37 delegates from 24 nations including 8 Asian, 10 European, 2 Middle Eastern, 2 African, and 2 Northern American nations made the seminar a successful event. It was the first in-person event of the annual seminar in four years since the outbreak of COVID-19.
National Assembly Speaker Kim Jin-pyo attended the opening ceremony, emphasizing the significance of cooperation between parliaments in situation where issues are similar or mutually influential among countries. In his opening remarks, Chief Park Sang Chul of the National Assembly Research Service expressed his expectation for highly productive discussions regarding legislative impact analysis and AI among the parliamentary research experts gathered from around the world at the seminar.
The seminar, which took place at the National Assembly Members’ Office, featured two themes: Legislative Impact Analysis and Parliamentary Research Services (Session 1) and AI and Parliamentary Research Services (Session 2).
At the first session, Wolfgang Hiller (Director for Impact Assessment and Foresight of the European Parliament Research Service) introduced legislative impact assessment within the European Parliament’s legislative process and shared concerns and know-how about how to simultaneously deliver substantial assessment and prevent procedural delays. Inosentius Samsul (Head of Expertise Agency of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia) gave a presentation on Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) that revealed specific and detailed analytical figures and indexes of his country. Presenters from Italy, Latvia, Mexico, Mongolia, Uganda, and the Republic of Korea also shared their countries’ legislative impact analysis and how the system is developing.
During the two-part second session, nine presentations were delivered. Gerlinde Wagner (Head of the Legal, Legislative and Research Services of the Parliament of Austria) presented about the spreading AI literacy within the Austrian parliament. Martin Kamprath (Advisor of Research Services of the German Bundestag) shared the experiences at AI workshops held in the first half of this year by the German Bundestag. Presenters from Czech Republic, Sweden, Malaysia, the Philippines, Türkiye, the USA, and the Republic of Korea also introduced the current status and prospects of AI in parliamentary research areas in their respective countries. A lively discussion was followed by an animated Q&A session afterwards.
Aside from the sessions, the delegations toured the Plenary Chamber of the National Assembly, as well as shared ideas and insights in informal discussion at a luncheon hosted by the National Assembly Secretary General and two dinners hosted by Chief of the NARS. The seminar delegates also reached a consensus on strengthening parliamentary research capacity by regularly communicating with each other, as Chief Park had suggested.
National Assembly Speaker Kim Jin-pyo attended the opening ceremony, emphasizing the significance of cooperation between parliaments in situation where issues are similar or mutually influential among countries. In his opening remarks, Chief Park Sang Chul of the National Assembly Research Service expressed his expectation for highly productive discussions regarding legislative impact analysis and AI among the parliamentary research experts gathered from around the world at the seminar.
The seminar, which took place at the National Assembly Members’ Office, featured two themes: Legislative Impact Analysis and Parliamentary Research Services (Session 1) and AI and Parliamentary Research Services (Session 2).
At the first session, Wolfgang Hiller (Director for Impact Assessment and Foresight of the European Parliament Research Service) introduced legislative impact assessment within the European Parliament’s legislative process and shared concerns and know-how about how to simultaneously deliver substantial assessment and prevent procedural delays. Inosentius Samsul (Head of Expertise Agency of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia) gave a presentation on Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) that revealed specific and detailed analytical figures and indexes of his country. Presenters from Italy, Latvia, Mexico, Mongolia, Uganda, and the Republic of Korea also shared their countries’ legislative impact analysis and how the system is developing.
During the two-part second session, nine presentations were delivered. Gerlinde Wagner (Head of the Legal, Legislative and Research Services of the Parliament of Austria) presented about the spreading AI literacy within the Austrian parliament. Martin Kamprath (Advisor of Research Services of the German Bundestag) shared the experiences at AI workshops held in the first half of this year by the German Bundestag. Presenters from Czech Republic, Sweden, Malaysia, the Philippines, Türkiye, the USA, and the Republic of Korea also introduced the current status and prospects of AI in parliamentary research areas in their respective countries. A lively discussion was followed by an animated Q&A session afterwards.
Aside from the sessions, the delegations toured the Plenary Chamber of the National Assembly, as well as shared ideas and insights in informal discussion at a luncheon hosted by the National Assembly Secretary General and two dinners hosted by Chief of the NARS. The seminar delegates also reached a consensus on strengthening parliamentary research capacity by regularly communicating with each other, as Chief Park had suggested.
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