Slides from a talk I'm giving at the Open Government Partnership conference 2013 about how opening up parliamentary information can lead to more engaged citizens: http://www.opengovpartnership.org/get-involved/london-summit-2013/agenda/session/opening-parliaments-strengthening-democracy

1. Opening up information
from the UK Parliament
Stephen Abbott

2. Parliament’s position
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Transcripts for all debates at Parliament
Live streaming video and archived video clips
Publication of all parliamentary/committee reports
Biographical information on all members of Parliament
Members’ financial interests published
Public information for visitors/tourists/schools
Things we don’t do yet
• Voting records
• Attendance records
• Reusable data for all of the above

6. Challenges
• Keeping pace with technological change
• Readers accessing parliament.uk on the move
• Instant information demand
• Reshaping and refining services as we go
• Reliance on other companies, like Google
• Battling political apathy/decrease in voter engagement
• Adding utility to parliamentary information
• What will Parliament of the future look like?
• How will we share parliamentary information?

7. http://harryrickards.com/
made by @jamesthompson8, @harryrickards, @ruben_fb1 + @rcsurfer

8. http://toetheline.org.uk/
made by @premasagar, @prcweb + @05creative

9. http://data.parliament.uk/membersdataplatform/memberquery.aspx

10. Thank you
Twitter: @Stephen_Abbott
Email: abbotts@parliament.uk