[open-government] [euopendata] New projects on parliamentary transparency?

Wed Dec 14 11:19:49 UTC 2011

Hi all,

I'm not sure if I posted this here or if you've seen it in the opengov okfn
mailinglist, but here's the Bulgarian parliamentary open data again:
http://parliament.yurukov.net/index_en.html
1Gb, 11000+ data points, xsd schema and open source scraping scripts. Will
have a nice visualization/community website in the beginning of next year.

Boyan

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:13, Daniel Dietrich <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org>wrote:

> Thanks for sharing Andrew,
>
> thanks for sharing. I see on Agora Parl some PMOs are missing for Germany.
> I would love to add them. Or do they need to add themselves?
>
> Please indicate whats the best way fwd.
>
> Regards
> Daniel
>
>
>
>
> On 13.12.2011, at 20:38, Andrew G. Mandelbaum wrote:
>
> > 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
> > >
> > > Mobile: (973) 650-2067
> > > Skype: agm3jordan
> > > Twitter: agm3dc
> > >
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> > Fabrizio Scrollini
> >
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> > Andrew G. Mandelbaum
> >
> > Mobile: (973) 650-2067
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