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

Tue Jan 31 16:27:14 UTC 2012

Greetings Benjamin and others,

We at the National Democratic Institute <http://www.ndi.org/> (NDI) are
also very excited about the Regards Citoyens-SciencePo-MediaLab conference
on open legislative data in Paris.  It sounds like a great opportunity for
parliamentary monitoring organizations (or “PMOs” in our lingo) to share
their exciting and innovative work and ideas, which have contributed to
citizen understanding and engagement in parliamentary processes worldwide.
In addition to attending ourselves, we hope to be able to support the
participation of a few more PMOs in the conference as well.

On a similar and complementary note, we will be sending a save the date
announcement shortly for a conference for global PMO leaders that NDI plans
to co-host from April 30-May 2 with the Sunlight
Foundation<http://sunlightfoundation.com/>
, Latin American Network for Legislative
Transparency<http://www.transparencialegislativa.org/>(which Maria
Baron has mentioned below),
 World Bank Institute <http://wbi.worldbank.org/wbi/>, and the Embassy of
Mexico in the United States <http://embamex.sre.gob.mx/eua/>.  The
conference (in Washington, DC) seeks to foster discussion among PMOs on a
parliamentary transparency “pledge” that can be used to advocate for
increased parliamentary transparency and openness both internationally and
domestically.  We also hope to explore potential opportunities to raise the
international debate on parliamentary transparency, like the Open
Government Partnership (OGP), which the Embassy of Mexico and
Fundar<http://fundar.org.mx/index.html/>,
an excellent PMO that has worked with the government of Mexico to create
its OGP commitments, will help to discuss.

A main goal of this conference is to provide a forum for PMOs to develop
concrete ideas for future collaborative activities; summertime in Paris
sounds like a great time and place to build upon the ideas and
collaborative spirit that we hope to generate in Washington in spring.

We’re planning to release additional information about the PMO Leaders
Conference through the Agora Portal for Parliamentary
Development<http://www.agora-parl.org/>,
including a draft parliamentary transparency pledge that we will post for
discussion. We would very much welcome feedback from this group.  If you
would like to sign up for Agora, please email me privately (
amandelbaum at ndi.org) and I’ll request a login for you.

Best,

Andrew

2012/1/26 María Baron <mbaron at directoriolegislativo.org>

> 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
>>>>
>>>> The Open Knowledge Foundation
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>>>>
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>>>
>>>
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>
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> *
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> Av. Entre Ríos 258 3 E, C.A. de Buenos Aires
> C1079ABP -  Argentina
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> Fax: (54 11) 5236-4293
> http://www.directoriolegislativo.org
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