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

Tue Sep 9 18:56:55 UTC 2014

Hello,

Sorry for the late response. Association 61 also endorses the letter. We 
also plan to translate it into polish and publish on our websites and 
promote. 

Information about polish president of polish legislative assembly is 
correct, but it is very probably that it will change within few weeks. So 
maybe you can send e-mails also to vice-presidents? I’ll provide contacts.

Best regards,

Ania Ścisłowska

Association 61

W dniu środa, 27 sierpnia 2014 17:04:56 UTC+2 użytkownik johnwonderlich 
napisał:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> 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. 
> <https://docs.google.com/a/sunlightfoundation.com/document/d/1xaqCFi2XKZhMpwZK6BJD6bgPArkrDLKGyfMTbo6lx0Q/edit>
>
>
> 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://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FList_of_current_presidents_of_assembly&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHcEFtUyi_Ak3mbo3NsTPEOehEHlw>, 
> 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
>
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> John Wonderlich
> Policy Director, Sunlight Foundation
> @johnwonderlich <https://twitter.com/johnwonderlich>
>  
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