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

Tue Jan 31 17:11:47 UTC 2012

Great!

Excelent idea. I'll try my best to be there and to convince the people from
demo.cratica!
At the moment i'm working on the Portuguese Legislation: indexing,
interlinkage and publishing as open data. So, that would be the place to go
;)

Cheers!
Nuno.

2012/1/31 Andrew G. Mandelbaum <andrew.g.mandelbaum at gmail.com>

> 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
>>>>> Promoting Open Knowledge in a Digital Age
>>>>> www.okfn.org - www.opendefinition.org
>>>>>
>>>>> www.ddie.me
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>>>>> +49 176 327 685 30
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> María Baron
>>>> Directora Ejecutiva*
>>>> *
>>>> Fundación Directorio Legislativo
>>>> Av. Entre Ríos 258 3 E, C.A. de Buenos Aires
>>>> C1079ABP -  Argentina
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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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>
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