Ashok Hariharan hariharan@un.org http://www.parliaments.info UNITED NATIONS Department of Economic and Social Affairs

UNDESA & Parliaments http://www.parliaments.info Analysis and research services Networking and knowledge sharing services Capacity development and advisory services Advocacy, awareness, coordination and information services http://www.ictparliament.org Promoting & Developing …. open semantic standards for parliamentary documents open source tools for parliaments ….since July 2008 http://www.parliaments.info

Opportunity gap in Parliament ! Discrepancy between Available technological innovations and Approach to technological adoption

Opportunity gap in Parliament ! Discrepancy between Available technological innovations semantic web – open/shareable solutions and Approach to technological adoption e-paper paradigm – locally focused solutions

Our approach – top down Fix the Producer management of information production not just “presentation” documents support workflow and not just “publishing” website Legislative Software is not just “another product”

Opportunity gap in Parliament ! .... between Available technological innovations semantic web – open/shareable solutions and Approach to technological adoption Open standards – resuable solutions

Our Methodology semantic web integrated systems open source development model to acquire, elaborate and preserve information and produce open data to cover 100% work-flow and management information and data to deliver high quality sustainable services for all parliaments

Africa i-Parliaments developed Akoma Ntoso XML standard www.akomantoso.org support the XML markup parliamentary, legislative and judiciary documents Bungeni www.bungeni.org Parliamentary and Legislative Information System based on an open source suite of software applications Africa Parliamentary Knowledge Network www.apkn.org APKN is the network of African Parliaments which supports capacity building activities, common services, sharing experiences and best practices among African Parliaments..

Akoma Ntoso Akoma Ntoso: XML standard for parliamentary documents is a set of common standards to produce, classify and share digital parliamentary and legislative documents Akoma Ntoso “Linked Hearts” – a symbol used by the Akan people of West Africa to represent understanding and agreement;

Akoma Ntoso XML standard Standard Naming & Classification URI Naming schema - /fr/bill/finance/93/2011-03-04/main IFLA derived classification system - Funcitonal Requirements for Bibliographic Records FRBR

Akoma Ntoso XML standard Document Types: Bill, Debate, Hansard, Minutes, Act, Judgement, etc and custom types ACT MINUTES BILL JUDGEMENT REPORT DEBATE

Akoma Ntoso XML standard Content & Style Separation Output Formats

Akoma Ntoso XML standard Versioning, amendment tracking and history support Also Voting Records …..

Akoma Ntoso XML standard OASIS Standardization AFRICA I-PARLIAMENTS EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT UNIV BOLOGNA SCHOOL of LAW CORNELL - LII LEXIS NEXIS NATIONAL PARL ebXML ODF XACML DOCBOOK UDDI

Why is this important ? Open Data at present is : “Every man for himself” Screen scrape / Fragile – massive diversity in source data-sets “Tech Silo” Limited shared high level tools Expensive

BUNGENI eco system of Application is an integrated suite of multi-platform architecture software applications, based on Open Source Software and Open Standards that automates the life-cycle of parliamentary documents Http://www.bungeni.org focuses on: the development of a regional/continental level capacity building activities and common services for African Parliaments; it aims to: exploit the synergies and benefits from the regional/continental critical mass to deliver both high quality and sustainable services is about: Parliaments working together to learn and collaborate strengthen their own capacities together

Bungeni eco-System of Apps Akoma Ntoso Production & Digestion Apps Parliamentary Information System Institutional Repository Legislative Drafting - Word Processor based XML Editor Audio-Video transcription OPEN SOURCE Parliaments & Legal Institutions

Bungeni eco-System of Apps

Bungeni – Parliamentary Automation input process output MPs bills motions et. Citizens petitions information Events conferences visits Parliamentary debate hearings votes Editorial draft review publish Parliamentary agenda debates votes Editorial news Information dossier

Bungeni – Parliamentary Automation All about a document

easy access: all in one place Bungeni – Parliamentary Automation All about a Member of Parliament

Bungeni – Parliamentary Automation All about a Member of Parliament

Bungeni – Parliamentary Automation publication is part of work-flow

better accessibility: XML/HTML/PDF/DOC/ data published also in open semantic format reusable both by humans and machines

better accessibility: XML/HTML/PDF/DOC/ data published also in open semantic format reusable both by humans and machines

Bungeni Editor Drafting & Markup Framework XML Production For DebateRecords / Hansards, Bills, Judgements, etc Extensively Customizable Produces Akoma Ntoso , but any other XML format can also be produced Open Source License

Openoffice word processor window Formatting / Actions Palette Bungeni Editor Openoffice word processor window Formatting / Actions Palette

Contextual Markup Rule based Context Specificity ENABLED DISABLED SELECTED TEXT

Structural Views

Akoma Ntoso XML Production

Participate ! Bungeni Legislative management Http://code.google.com/p/bungeni-portal Bungeni Editor Http://code.google.com/p/bungeni-editor Akoma Ntoso Http://www.akomantoso.org Http://groups.google.com/group/akomantoso-xml https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/legaldocml/

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