[open-government] New projects on parliamentary transparency?

Tue Dec 13 19:38:24 UTC 2011

Greetings Everyone,

Apologies for the delay, but I just had the opportunity to take a look at
Tom's spreadsheet of civic websites and provided a number of additions.
Thanks for taking the initiative on this, Tom, it's a very helpful resource.

In addition, I wanted to provide a link to a spreadsheet that lists all of
the parliamentary monitoring organizations (PMOs) that I am currently aware
of, by country:
https://docs.google.com/a/ndi.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Akm6uoR20ePVdE0wbnphX294bXNnRDM0aUZKaVBDZ1E&hl=en_US#gid=0.
This includes PMOs using technology tools, as well as those that are not.
This list is updated from the one provided in the report on PMOs published
by the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and World Bank Institute (WBI)
just recently:
http://www.ndi.org/files/governance-parliamentary-monitoring-organizations-survey-september-2011.pdf
.

In addition, the AGORA Portal for Parliamentary Development (
www.agora-parl.org) has also recently released an "Atlas" of PMOs,
including more in-depth profile pages for each organization.  It can be
accessed here: http://www.agora-parl.org/atlas/monitoring-organisations.
Thus far, profile pages are available for the 80 or so PMOs that completed
a survey or participated in the NDI-WBI project mentioned above.  However,
PMOs that join the website's "Trusted Area" (which is open to anyone
conducting parliamentary monitoring, just let me know if you are
interested), will be able to access and update their current profile sheet
or make a new profile sheet if they do not yet possess one.

Thanks,

*Andrew G. Mandelbaum*

Senior Program Officer, Governance
National Democratic Institute

Phone: 202-728-5552
Skype: agm3jordan
Email: amandelbaum at ndi.org
Twitter: agm3dc

2011/11/23 Fabrizio Scrollini <fabrizio.scrollini at gmail.com>

> Hi Tom and all,
>
> I actually did the same for some civic websites but, focusing on FOI and
> obviously you can grab information from there,and maybe we could merge it.
> Cheers,
>
> Fabrizio
>
>
> On 11 November 2011 15:26, 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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>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Andrew G. Mandelbaum
>> >
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>> >
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