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

stef stefan.marsiske at gmail.com
Wed Jan 25 18:33:39 UTC 2012


hey, i think you might be interested in this if you have missed this on any
other mailing-lists:

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 07:29:21PM +0100, Daniel Dietrich 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>
> 
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