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IPU Members Back Democratic Governance as a Post-2015 Development Goal

The 24th IPU Bulletin reports that the results from a survey carried out during the 128th IPU Assembly in Quito have revealed that 80 per cent of MPs back democratic governance as a stand-alone objective for the United Nations Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Nearly all (96 per cent) of the 240 MPs surveyed from 619 MPs present in Quito, believed that the key elements of democratic governance – participation, transparency and accountability – should be embedded into the other SDGs to ensure their success.

The open parliament in the age of the internet: can the people now collaborate with legislatures in lawmaking?

The book, published by the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil, is based on a study of two particular cases where parliamentary bodies designed and implemented participatory digital processes, namely, the e-Democracy Program developed by the Brazilian House of Representatives, and the Virtual Senator Program developed by the Chilean Senate.

Guides on parliamentary websites and social media

The University of Hull published 3 guides aimed at practitioners on the use of websites and social media by parliaments, drawing from the research developed for the project Managing Parliament’s Image. The themes of the guides are: Organising and Managing Parliamentary Websites, Using Parliamentary Websites as an Engagement Tool, How Parliaments Use Social Media.
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ECPRD Seminar "Parliaments on the Net XI: Realizing the Digital Parliament"

The ECPRD - Parliaments on the Net - seminar entitled « Realizing the Digital Parliament », organized in the framework of the ECPRD Area of Interest “Information and Communication Technology in Parliaments” and hosted by the UK Parliament, focused in particular on the shift taking place in many parliaments from print to digital.  Follow: #potn2013 - http://potn2013.tumblr.com/ - Videos

The Senate of Italy publishes all bills in XML Akoma Ntoso

Since 23 February 2013 the Senate of Italy started to publish on its website all bills in XML, using an Akoma Ntoso compliant scheme (in addition to the usual HTML, PDF, and ePub formats). Also, the Senate of Italy recently released the open data portal dati.senato.it

List of Twitter feeds from parliaments

The Inter-Parliamentary Union list of Official Twitter feeds from parliaments around the world can be found here.

WSIS Forum 2013

The Global Centre for ICT in Parliament will attend the World Summit on the Information Society Forum 2013, which represents the world’s largest annual gathering of the ‘ICT for development’ community. This forum will provide structured opportunities to network, learn and participate in multi-stakeholder discussions and consultations on WSIS implementation. This event builds upon the tradition of annual WSIS May meetings, and its format is the result of open consultations with all WSIS Stakeholders. The agenda and program of the WSIS Forum is built on the basis of official submissions received during the Open Consultation Process.

U.S. House of Representatives: House Floor Summary in real-time RSS feeds and new search tool in HouseLive.gov

The Clerk’s office of the House of Representatives of the United States implemented two projects: 

  • The House Floor Summary may now be accessed through a real-time RSS feed. The feed displays legislative proceedings as they occur, in addition to the proceedings of the previous five legislative days.
  • New speaker search tool: HouseLive.gov now provides users with the ability to search the full transcript of any legislative day to find the video of where a Member of the House spoke on the Floor. The  search function is accessible via the dropdown menu at the top of the Floor Summary window.

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