Open Up Your Legislature (!)
John Wonderlich
I'm sure most of you are aware of the several events surrounding the Global Legislative Openness Week (GLOW) from September 15 to 25.
In coordination with events during the week, Sunlight is planning to launch a quick campaign to raise awareness around the importance of open formats when publishing legislative information. We intend to send a letter to all the national legislatures around the globe calling them to make parliamentary data "open data by default," in agreement with the principles of the Declaration on Parliamentary Openness. You can find the letter attached as a PDF, ODT and in a viewable google document.
We'd love to get as much support as possible from supporting national and local level PMOs and members of global transparency community to help demonstrate the constituents' appetite for transparency, and the local impact this type of action can have. If you want to endorse the letter, please let us know before September 10.
We also encourage everyone to not only sign the letter, but also translate it to your local language and try to get some local media attention through press releases, social media or other media hooks for the week of September 15. OpeningParliament has grown into a truly global network, and we've managed to create a strong consensus for how legislatures should operate. We hope that we can count on you to help us translate these letters, register your support, and clearly communicate our agenda during GLOW.
We are planning send out the letter to each administrative office via emails (and in some cases through regular mails) on September 15 and address it to the current presidents of national assemblies, or similar authorities. As we have looked through this list, it has come to our attention that some of the information on national assemblies is out of date. We are working to verify the data ourselves, but if you can provide verification for who the head of your national legislature is, that would be very helpful!
We are excited to send a clear, global message to legislatures -- your data should be open, and we are ready to help.
Thanks everyone for your support,
The Sunlight team
Javier de Vega
Thanks for this initiative. We at Fundación Civio [1] will gladly
endorse and sign the letter and try to reach the media during Global
Legislative Week in Spain. Besides, we are currently translating the
letter to Spanish in order to share it with all of you soon. Regarding
Spain, the information linked about the national assemblies is
correct.
Cheers!
Javier
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Javier de Vega
You'll find the letter translated to Spanish on the following link:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ubj1PkaQhCaPcmqsSIE4T24MpRVMb2gSnpDLpJ4S8e8/edit?usp=sharing
Within the next days we will prepare a press release about this
initiative to share with the Spanish media.
Regards!
Javier
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its my pleasure to joint this initiative, to endorse our national parliament open. I will sign the letter, translating into Bahasa Indonesia, and delivery it to the key actors in our parliament, as well as to national mass media and Transition Office of Jokowi's Administration.
But I can't find the file. Could you re-send it to me?
Thank you.
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All,
We are thrilled to see that so many of you have already endorsed the OpenUpYourLegislature! campaign. For those of you who have not yet: there`s still time to join us for the Global Legislative Openness Week (GLOW) and sign the public letter we intend send out to all the national legislatures around the globe calling them to make parliamentary data "open data by default".
You can find the letter attached as a PDF, ODT and in a viewable google document. If you want to endorse the campaign, please let us know before COB September 10.
We still encourage everyone to not only sign on but also translate the document to your local language and try to get some local media attention through press releases, social media or other media hooks. We are planning to send out the letter to every legislature in English on September 15 as a global community of CSOs, but local translations can reinforce the effort and strengthen the message. Also, reach-out to the media might make the most sense if planned for the same week.
FYI everyone, we already have translations in Spanish (from Spain), LATAM Spanish, Hebrew, Bahasa Indonesian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian. We are expecting translations in French, Russian and Kyrgyz. Please let us know if you would like to add another language or if we’re missing something.
Here`s the link to folder with translations, it should be publicly viewable: https://drive.google.com/a/sunlightfoundation.com/?tab=mo#folders/0Byj4N7CVoMXrQ3hKU0w0dnpXZ2c
Also, many of you mentioned that the list of the current presidents of national assemblies is incorrect, which is why we’re working to verify the data ourselves. If you can provide verification for who the head of your national legislature is, that would still be very helpful!
Thanks,
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Anna Ścisłowska
Sorry for the late response. Association 61 also endorses the letter. We also plan to translate it into polish and publish on our websites and promote.
Information about polish president of polish legislative assembly is correct, but it is very probably that it will change within few weeks. So maybe you can send e-mails also to vice-presidents? I’ll provide contacts.
Best regards,
Ania Ścisłowska
Association 61
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ePaństwo Foundation also endorses the letter - it's a great initiative!
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andyrichardson
Great initiative, we've referenced GLOW on the IPU's list of events for the International Day of Democracy. If you have other events, please let me know and we'll list them.
FYI IPU, the United Nations and others are tweeting about the Day with the hashtag #DemocracyDay - great if others could use it too!
Andy Richardson
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Paulina Sobieszuk
Hi All,
TechSoup Europe also fully supports this great initiative!
Best,
Paulina Sobieszuk
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