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Day 3: Working together: global and regional collaboration, Mr. Greg Brown, National Democratic Institute
Globalization of politics requires parliaments all over the world to cooperate and exchange information. The session will learn about existing forms of inter-parliamentary collaboration, and discuss perspectives for developing common approaches, including open source software solutions, and open standards for legislative document management, including XML.
Globalization of politics requires parliaments all over the world to cooperate and exchange information. The session will learn about existing forms of inter-parliamentary collaboration, and discuss perspectives for developing common approaches, including open source software solutions, and open standards for legislative document management, including XML.
Day 3: Working together: global and regional collaboration, Mr. Greg Brown, National Democratic Institute
1.
Global Partnerships &
Legislative Openness
Greg Brown // gbrown@ndi.org // @gregbrownm
National Democratic Institute
Co-Chair, Legislative Openness Working Group
2.
1. PMOs & Parliament
2. Open Government Partnership &
Other Communities
3. Opportunities to Engage
4.
“If the discourse of the PMO is similar to what the
feeling of the people is – and doesn’t question the
negative image that people have about the
Congress – then we are not doing much.
If citizens don’t realize that Congress is a very
important branch for a political system to work,
then we’re not going to be a democracy."
– Mónica Pachón, Congreso Visible
5.
Civil society can support
legislative reform through:
Education | Advocacy | Collaboration
6.
Around the world, over 200 civil society
organizations are monitoring national and
sub-national legislatures:
Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations
(PMOs)
OpeningParliament.org
10.
Role for Parliaments in OGP ?
Oversight and Review
Legislative Action
Institutional Commitments
11.
6countries published parliamentary openness plans
...with more likely to come!
12.
The LOWG was created to
encourage peer learning,
exchange, and collaboration
among parliaments.
13.
3work streams for 2016
- Peer Exchange and Capacity Building
- Comparative Data on Legislative Openness
- Institutionalizing Parliamentary
Engagement
14.
Peer
Exchange and
Capacity
Building
May 2015: International Open
Data Conference (Ottawa)
Sept. 2015: LOWG
Global Meeting (Tbilisi)
Oct. 2015: OGP
Summit (Mexico City)
Aug. 2015: Meeting of the Pan
African Parliament (Johannesburg)
May 2016: OGP
Regional Meeting
(Montevideo) May 2016: OGP
Regional Meeting
(Cape Town)
15.
Peer
Exchange and
Capacity
Building
May 2015: International Open
Data Conference (Ottawa)
Sept. 2015: LOWG
Global Meeting (Tbilisi)
Oct. 2015: OGP
Summit (Mexico City)
Aug. 2015: Meeting of the Pan
African Parliament (Johannesburg)
May 2016: OGP
Regional Meeting
(Montevideo) May 2016: OGP
Regional Meeting
(Cape Town)
Dec. 2016: OGP
Summit (Paris)
16.
A week of openness activities around the world,
with events hosted by the Legislative Openness Working Group and
members of the parliamentary openness community
17.
Legislative Openness Working Group Global Meeting
18.
Albania
Armenia
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia
Brazil
Chile
Croatia
Czech
Republic
Estonia
France
Germany
Hungary
Jordan
Latvia
Lithuania
Matla
Moldova
Montenegro
Poland
Serbia
Slovenia
South Africa
Sweden
Tunisia
Turkey
Ukraine
UK
USA