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.
A Press for the Planet: Journalism in the face of the Environmental Crisis
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
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
