[open-government] Open Legislative Data Conference in Paris - July 6-7

[Daniel Dietrich]

Dear Benjamin,

this is *really* very exciting! Please let us know if and how you think the OKF could be of any help supporting this event.

All the best
Daniel



PS: For those of you who haven't read, please see my topic report on re-use of parliamentary data:

http://epsiplatform.eu/content/topic-report-8-re-use-parliamentary-data

and the much broader analysis by National Democratic Institute and World Bank Institute

http://www.ndi.org/parliamentary-monitoring-organization-survey

On 25.01.2012, at 19:00, Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> From the premises of TheyWorkForYou to the latest portuguese
> Demo.Cratica we now have plenty of citizen initiatives among the world
> working on parliament data. Let's all meet up together with
> parliamentary researchers to share and confront ideas?
> 
> We are organising on July 6th & 7th in Paris with researchers from the
> Sciences Politiques institute an international conference aimed at
> gathering both academics and hactivists working on parliamentary and
> legislative issues.
> 
> The « Open Legislative Data in Paris » conference will be held in
> english to ensure a maximal participation from communities all over
> the world: academic studies, parliamentary informatics and citizen
> monitoring projects, or combination of both are all welcome! Our
> common projet with SciencesPo and its MediaLab will present during the
> event the first prototype of a legislative evolution monitoring tool.
> 
> All participants from various horizons are very welcome to present
> their work, within 15 minutes talks or 5 minutes lightning talks.
> We are thinking especially to all of you everywhere, who develop cool
> parsing, scraping and visualisation tools on any parliament chamber,
> working on votes, presence, legal texts, and so on! :)
> 
> Submissions to make a presentation should be made online before April
> 1st. Subscription will come later on :
> http://www.lafabriquedelaloi.fr/conference/submit-a-proposal/
> 
> If you really want to come but can't do it for financial reasons, we
> can support a selection of people to the extend of our limited budget.
> So don't hesitate to sollicitate us for a help at
> picri at regardscitoyens.org
> 
> Similarily, if you can offer or advice for financial support, you're
> very welcome to e-mail us as well.
> 
> More details can be read in the pdf attached and online on « The Law
> Factory »'s website:
> http://www.lafabriquedelaloi.fr/conference/
> 
> Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou for Regards Citoyens
> 
> PS : We’ve also got a dedicated mailing list for discussions around
> the conference which you can write to:
> TheLawFactory at ml.regardscitoyens.org.  If you’d like to join the
> discussion, sign up by sending an empty e-mail to
> TheLawFactory-subscribe at ml.regardscitoyens.org
> <OpenLegislativeDataInParis-July6-7.pdf>

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