[open-government] New projects on parliamentary transparency?

Fri Nov 11 15:46:41 UTC 2011

Hi Tom,

thats cool, thanks for sharing. I will keep an eye on it and add once
in a wile. Also I feel its time to re-edit the wikipage on
parliamentary informatics* any time soon.

My topic report on re-use of parliamentary data will be published soon
and I will let you know.

Regards
Daniel

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_informatics

On 11 November 2011 16:26, Tom Steinberg <tom at mysociety.org> wrote:
> Hi Daniel, all,
>
> A couple of weeks back me and a few other people started to populate a
> very lightweight spreadsheet of all kinds of civic sites, in all kinds
> of country. If you'd like to contribute, or just check out what's
> there, please just open this Google spreadsheet:
>
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkwRl6JWX8tkdGxqT1ZFUWxFbElVa3d1S1NOODQ2aVE&hl=en_GB#gid=0
>
> best,
>
> Tom
>
> On 15 October 2011 18:22, Andrew G. Mandelbaum
> <andrew.g.mandelbaum at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Daniel,
>> The National Democratic Institute (NDI) and World Bank Institute (WBI) have
>> conducted a joint project on parliamentary monitoring organizations (PMOs),
>> the final report of which has just been released
>> here: http://www.ndi.org/files/governance-parliamentary-monitoring-organizations-survey-september-2011.pdf.
>> It identifies more than 190 PMOs in over 80 countries, about 40% of which
>> are informatics projects. Many of these PMOs scrape  information from
>> parliamentary websites for reuse on their own websites. Many who do not use
>> informatics conduct similar work the old fashioned way. The report discusses
>> good practice in parliamentary monitoring and makes recommendations for the
>> international development community with respect to supporting PMOs.
>> A next step for NDI is to work with PMOs to develop parliamentary
>> transparency standards. We are also developing a discussion group in the
>> password-protected "trusted area" of the AGORA portal for parliamentary
>> development (www.agora-parl.org). I'm happy to sign people up for AGORA who
>> might be interested in participating.
>> Thanks,
>> Andrew G. Mandelbaum
>> Senior Program Officer, Governance
>> National Democratic Institute
>> amandelbaum at ndi.org
>> 202-728-5552
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Stef van Grieken <stef at hetnieuwestemmen.nl>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Daniel,
>>>
>>> You're missing some of our projects:
>>>
>>> - Toevalofniet: shows influence links between politicians and maps the
>>> 'old boys networks'. Project is a collaboration with the Dutch newspaper NRC
>>> Handelsblad.
>>>
>>> - Politwoops: shows deleted tweets of politicians in the Dutch Parlaiment.
>>>
>>> - Volgmijnstem: currently being developed together with Nu.nl. This
>>> website monitors parliamentary activity and presents it as context
>>> information on the website nu.nl.
>>>
>>> - Wettenstrijd: is a game that simulates how parliaments work. Uses actual
>>> proceedings from the EU and Dutch parliament.
>>>
>>> - Maildepolitiek: allows citizens to request an answer by e-mail from
>>> multiple MP's on a specific subject. Conversation is being published on the
>>> site.
>>>
>>> Two of my colleagues will be their (added them in the CC.)
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Stef
>>>
>>>
>>> On 15 okt. 2011, at 15:48, Daniel Dietrich wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hi all,
>>> > I am working on a Topic Report for the ePSIplatform [1] on the "re-use
>>> > of parliamentary data"
>>> > (focus EU member states) and I would very much appreciate your help!
>>> > Do you know of any new initiatives / projects working on re-using
>>> > parliamentary data that is not listet here:
>>> >
>>> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_informatics
>>> >
>>> > If so  please let me know (updates on the wikipage are always welcome
>>> > too :)
>>> > Please let me know if you are able to help. Thanks in advance!
>>> > If some of you are at OGDCamp [2] in Warsaw next week we couldactually
>>> > meet there in person. Also: if you know any projects and
>>> > colleagues I should contact on this, please let me know.
>>> > All the bestDaniel
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Daniel Dietrich
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>>> >
>>> > 1. http://epsiplatform.eu/2. http://ogdcamp.org/
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > For your info: this mail was just send toFriedrich LindenbergStefan
>>> > MarsiskeErik JosefssonNiels Erik Kaaber RasmussenRonny PatzJeni
>>> > TennisonJulien BaillergeauLaurent PeuchChris TaggartTom Steinberg
>>> > --
>>> >
>>> > Daniel Dietrich
>>> >
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>>
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>>
>

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