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Canada l Canadians quickly losing faith in their democracy, survey suggests
05 December 2012 | canada, democracy, parliament, public opinionCanadians’ satisfaction with democracy has dipped to a new low, research suggests, with many people pegging the problem on weak performance by their federal MPs. About 55 per cent of Canadians say...
Blogpost: Open Parliaments, the World Over
24 September 2012 | blogpost, initiative, mapping, open government, parliamentThe Open Government movement that has been groundbreaking in getting governments to open up their vast data sets on the delivery of services, is seeing a new frontier: Parliaments. Opening...
Blogpost: Questions from Paris on Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations
12 July 2012 | blogpost, citizen monitoring, commentary, event, parliament, pmos, web resource[...] While some organizations have been around for years, it is only recently that an international network of Internet-centric PMOs has begun to coalesce. I was struck by how many organizations...
Blogpost: What do you think about this "parliamentary transparency pledge"?
27 April 2012 | blogpost, commentary, parliament, voluntary commitmentThis Monday will bring the start of the "PMO Leaders Conference on Parliamentary Transparency and Networking" here in Washington, DC. Among the topics at the three-day conference of global...
Blogpost: Helping Politicians Keep Their Promises
16 April 2012 | blogpost, commentary, executive, latin america, parliament, performance review, technology, web resource[...] When I sat down with Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente Director Felipe Heusser last month to take a look at the new site called “From What Was Said to What Was Done“, my first question was: “is...
Launch: Global Parliamentary Report | Agora Portal
10 April 2012 | global index, launch, parliament, report, undpIn July 2010, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) decided to jointly produce the first ever Global Parliamentary Report, in order to provide an...
Legislative Data Conference | US Congressional Committee on House Administration
07 February 2012 | legislative data, parliament, usaThe Committee on House Administration held a Legislative Data and Transparency Conference on February 2, 2012, from 9AM to 6PM in Cannon Caucus Room, 345 Cannon HOB. Conference Agenda Remarks...
Blogost: Myneta.info: India’s Technology Transition From Software Giant to Fighting Corruption (WB, 4 April 2011)
04 April 2011 | access-to-info, asia pacific, blogpost, country initiative, india, parliament, technology, transparency, web resourceWhen India first started using technology for national development, it used technology to build a huge software industry which helped the economy grow in the 1990s. In the decades that followed, with...
and NDI partner to to develop and promote the use of the CPA's "Benchmarks for Democratic Legislatures" (NDI 1 Oct 2010)
01 October 2010 | parliament, press releaseNDI and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) have signed an agreement to collaborate on efforts to enhance representative government around the world. The association is a...
Nicaragua draws from Paraguay’s experience to improve the monitoring capacity of its National Assembly
30 September 2010 | indicators, latin america, nicaragua, paraguay, parliament, regional exchange, undp-supportedLatin American countries, regardless of their size and development level, have a lot to learn from each other’s democratic processes. Nicaragua proved to appreciate the value of intra-...