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Using Social Media to Enhance Citizen Engagement and Democracy

Delegates to IPU’s 128th Assembly have adopted a resolution that calls on parliaments to both use social media to better inform and engage with their citizens but also to protect the right to freedom of expression on and off-line. The resolution also underscored that a free, open and accessible internet is both a fundamental human right and a tool for citizen engagement. Parliamentarians also needed to take on the responsibility for ensuring citizens’ access to free and secure online communications. The resolution followed IPU’s release of its first ever social media guidelines for MPs and parliamentary staff. Available freely online, it aims to encourage the more widespread and effective use of social media by parliaments and politicians, as well as provide guidance to those responsible for managing social media channels. The guidelines help to define the scope and purpose of social media for parliaments whilst also providing a benchmark for good practice in citizen engagement. The World e-Parliament Report identified that by the end of 2012, a third of all parliaments were already using social media with another third planning to.

European Parliament delivers the open source version of AT4AM, a web editor for amending legislation.

AT4AM, a web editor provided to Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), has largely improved the drafting of amendments at the European Parliament since its introduction in 2010. In May 2012, at the opening of the international workshop "Identifying benefits deriving from the adoption of XML-based chains for drafting legislation", Rainer Wieland, Vice President of the European Parliament, announced the launch of a new project aimed at providing the open source version of the tool.

Social Media Guidelines for Parliament released in English, French and Spanish

The Inter-Parliamentary Union published the Social Media Guidelines for Parliament. Prepared with support from the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament the Guidelines draw on lessons learned by parliaments so far and on good practice in the social media sphere. The objective is to encourage more widespread, more efficient and more effective use of social media by parliaments.

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U.S. Committee on House Administration Calls on Government Printing Office to Maintain Free Access to Congressional Documents

The House Administration Chairman Candice Miller, and Ranking Member Robert Brady,  issued the a statement after the full Committee sent a letter to the Acting Public Printer of the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) rejecting a recent recommendation by the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) to charge the public for access to GPO’s congressional documents:

2013 Legislative Data Standards Conference

The U.S. House of Representatives held its second annual Legislative Data and Transparency Conference on 22 May, in the Capitol Visitor Center Auditorium. The 2012 conference brought together the government insiders that create and publish legislative data with the public that consumes and reuses the information. The 2013 conference addressed the "use and future of legislative data," and covered topics including electronic legislative archiving, XML and metadata standards, and updates on beta.congress.gov. 

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.

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