[open-government] Open Up Your Legislature (!)

Tue Sep 9 14:55:10 UTC 2014

Hello John,

Great initiative, we at OpenForum Europe would be happy to support it.
We'll publish a press release and relay the campaign on twitter. When you
send out the letter may I suggest that you include the president of the
European Parliament, Martin Schulz (martin.schulz at europarl.europa.eu)?
FYI during that time we also plan to launch a campaign/platform to support
the use of ODF by public administrations whenever they need to share
editable documents in a downloadable form.

Best regards,

Mael

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> Hello everyone,
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> I'm sure most of you are aware of the several events surrounding the Global
> Legislative Openness Week <http://www.openingparliament.org/glow> (GLOW)
> from September 15 to 25.
>
> In coordination with events during the week, Sunlight is planning to launch
> a quick campaign to raise awareness around the importance of open formats
> when publishing legislative information. We intend to send a letter to all
> the national legislatures around the globe calling them to make
> parliamentary data "open data by default," in agreement with the principles
> of the Declaration on Parliamentary Openness. You can find the letter
> attached as a PDF, ODT and in a viewable google document.
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> https://docs.google.com/a/sunlightfoundation.com/document/d/1xaqCFi2XKZhMpwZK6BJD6bgPArkrDLKGyfMTbo6lx0Q/edit
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> We'd love to get as much support as possible from supporting national and
> local level PMOs and members of global transparency community to help
> demonstrate the constituents' appetite for transparency, and the local
> impact this type of action can have. If you want to endorse the letter,
> please let us know before September 10.
>
> We also encourage everyone to not only sign the letter, but also translate
> it to your local language and try to get some local media attention through
> press releases, social media or other media hooks for the week of September
> 15. OpeningParliament has grown into a truly global network, and we've
> managed to create a strong consensus for how legislatures should operate.
> We
> hope that we can count on you to help us translate these letters, register
> your support, and clearly communicate our agenda during GLOW.
>
> We are planning send out the letter to each administrative office via
> emails (and in some cases through regular mails) on September 15 and
> address it to the current presidents of national assemblies
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_presidents_of_assembly>, or
> similar authorities. As we have looked through this list, it has come to
> our attention that some of the information on national assemblies is out of
> date. We are working to verify the data ourselves, but if you can provide
> verification for who the head of your national legislature is, that would
> be very helpful!
>
>
> We are excited to send a clear, global message to legislatures -- your data
> should be open, and we are ready to help.
>
> Thanks everyone for your support,
>
>
> The Sunlight team
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> John Wonderlich
> Policy Director, Sunlight Foundation
> @johnwonderlich <https://twitter.com/johnwonderlich>
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