Fwd: [EPFSUG] Fwd: [open-government] Open Up Your Legislature (!)

Should the W3C Open Government CG endorse this initiative?

Cheers,
Andreas


-------- Original Message --------
Thu,  4 Sep 2014 17:17:40 +0200 (CEST)
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 17:17:40 +0200
From: Karsten Gerloff <gerloff@fsfeurope.org>
To: epfsug@epfsug.eu

Hi,

this might be of interest to a significant subset of this group
:-)

Best regards,
Karsten

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<johnwonderlich@gmail.com> -----

> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 11:04:33 -0400 From: John Wonderlich
> <johnwonderlich@gmail.com> To: pmo-network@googlegroups.com,
> poplus@googlegroups.com, sunlight-international@googlegroups.com,
> Open Government WG List <open-government@lists.okfn.org>, OGP Civil
> Society group <ogp@dgroups.org> Subject: [open-government] Open Up
> Your Legislature (!)
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm sure most of you are aware of the several events surrounding
> the Global Legislative Openness Week
> <http://www.openingparliament.org/glow> (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. 
> <https://docs.google.com/a/sunlightfoundation.com/document/d/1xaqCFi2XKZhMpwZK6BJD6bgPArkrDLKGyfMTbo6lx0Q/edit>
>
> 
> 
> 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 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_presidents_of_assembly>,
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- John Wonderlich Policy Director, Sunlight Foundation 
> @johnwonderlich <https://twitter.com/johnwonderlich>



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