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

[María Baron]

Pedro, hello!
Yes, of course! We are in contact with a lot of civic technologists/hackers
in Argentina as well as in other countries. Maybe we can arrange a Skype
and talk.
Let's spare everyone else with the details and arrange in a private email!
María

2012/1/26 Pedro Markun <pedro at esfera.mobi>

> Hey Maria,
>
> that's really awesome! I'm from Brazil, from a group called Transparência
> Hacker (also a member of Brazillian OKFN Chapter). We've been working a lot
> with legislative transparency around here, it would be great to connect and
> share some info.
>
> (Also spreading the word on the event around here!)
>
> []'s
> Pedro Markun
>
>
> 2012/1/26 María Baron <mbaron at directoriolegislativo.org>
>
>> Benjamin, Daniel,
>>
>> The Paris event seems a very interesting one. I hope as meany people can
>> make it. As you may know for over a year now 15 organizations from 5
>> countries in Latin America have created the Latin American Network for
>> Legislative Transparency <http://www.transparencialegislativa.org/> and
>> together we promote transparency, access to public information and
>> accountability in our Congresses. Take a look at our website to see our
>> publications and projects.
>>
>> Please let us know if we can help in any way in the organization of the
>> event. Feel free to contact us.
>>
>> Daniel, yours is a good review of what we all do! Thanks for posting it.
>> I'll circulate it to our contacts.
>> Best regards
>> María
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Daniel Dietrich <
>> daniel.dietrich at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>>> 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>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Daniel Dietrich
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
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>> María Baron
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María Baron
Directora Ejecutiva*
*
Fundación Directorio Legislativo
Av. Entre Ríos 258 3 E, C.A. de Buenos Aires
C1079ABP -  Argentina
Tel: (54 11) 5218-4647
Fax: (54 11) 5236-4293
http://www.directoriolegislativo.org
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