1. Ashok Hariharan hariharan@un.org
UNITED NATIONS
Department of Economic and Social Affairs

2. 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
Promoting & Developing ….
open semantic standards for parliamentary documents
open source tools for parliaments ….since July 2008

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

4. 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

5. 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”

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

7. 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

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

9. 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;

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

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

12. Akoma Ntoso XML standard
Content & Style Separation
Output Formats

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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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
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

17. 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

18. Bungeni eco-System of Apps

19. 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

20. Bungeni – Parliamentary Automation
All about a document

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

22. Bungeni – Parliamentary Automation
All about a Member of Parliament

23. Bungeni – Parliamentary Automation
publication is part of work-flow

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

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

26. 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

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

28. Contextual Markup Rule based Context Specificity ENABLED DISABLED
SELECTED TEXT

29. Structural Views

30. Akoma Ntoso XML Production

31. Participate ! Bungeni Legislative management
Bungeni Editor
Akoma Ntoso

32. Ashok Hariharan - hariharan@un.org
Merci Beaucoup
parliaments.info
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