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

Wed Sep 10 16:21:27 UTC 2014

Thanks so much Mael, and yes, we`ll definitely send the letter to Schulz!

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Maël Brunet <mael at openforumeurope.org>
wrote:

> 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,
>>
>> 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
>>
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>> --
>> John Wonderlich
>> Policy Director, Sunlight Foundation
>> @johnwonderlich <https://twitter.com/johnwonderlich>
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