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

Wed Sep 10 14:31:05 UTC 2014

Hi,

Great initiative, we've referenced GLOW on the IPU's list of events for the 
International Day of Democracy <http://www.ipu.org/dem-e/idd/events.htm>. 
If you have other events, please let me know and we'll list them.

FYI IPU, the United Nations and others are tweeting about the Day with the 
hashtag #DemocracyDay <https://twitter.com/hashtag/democracyday> - great if 
others could use it too!

Andy Richardson
Inter-Parliamentary Union
ar at ipu.org

On Wednesday, August 27, 2014 5:04:56 PM UTC+2, johnwonderlich wrote:
>
> 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://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
>
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> John Wonderlich
> Policy Director, Sunlight Foundation
> @johnwonderlich <https://twitter.com/johnwonderlich>
>  
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