[open-government] New projects on parliamentary transparency?

Sat Oct 15 17:22:30 UTC 2011

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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