[Open-Legislation] Opening up South Africa's by-laws

[Greg Kempe]

Hi Clemens,

I have some scripts to aid in the process. I can add a new bylaw in about 30-60 minutes at the moment. I definitely am hoping to crowd-source this by building a web app to allow others to follow the same process for their regions.

I would definitely like to link to legislation and to case law. I am investigating which websites I can actually link to for each of those.

I am also discussing options with the South African Legal Information Institute (Saflii) who do a lot of work with case law -- including cross-linking -- and are moving into the legislation area.

Greg

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On 23 October 2013 at 11:45:57 AM, Clemens Wass (clemens at wass.at) wrote:

Hi Greg,

interesting! What is your strategy to get all the bylaws into the system? Do have a crowdsourcing approach or does somebody do it centrally? I guess you do not have automated procedures, right? 

Do you intend to link them with legislation and case law?

Best,

Clemens


2013/10/22 Greg Kempe <greg at kempe.net>
Hi everyone,

I've launched a project in South Africa to make our by-laws more accessible. After seeing Oleg's blog post on the working group's relaunch, thought people on this list might be interested.

The project is at http://openbylaws.org.za/ and I've describe the background to it on the South African OKFN blog: http://za.okfn.org/2013/10/21/opening-up-south-africas-by-laws/

Thoughts and comments welcome.

Thanks,
Greg

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