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Africa i-Parliaments
"Africa i-Parliaments Action Plan: Strengthening the Role of African Parliaments in Fostering Democracy and Good Governance through Knowledge and Information Management" is an Africa-wide initiative implemented by the UN/DESA to empower African Parliaments to better fulfill their democratic functions by supporting their efforts to become open, participatory, knowledge-based and learning organisations. It builds on the experiences, lessons learned, and tools and applications developed during the implementation of the initiative “Strengthening Parliaments’ Information Systems in Africa” and more specifically: - AKOMA NTOSO defines a set of simple, technology-neutral electronic representations of parliamentary, legislative and judiciary documents for e-services in a Pan-African context and provides an enabling framework for the effective exchange of "machine readable" parliamentary, legislative and judiciary documents such as legislation, debate record, minutes, judgements, etc.
- Bungeni - Parliamentary and Legislative Information System is solution for drafting, managing, consolidating and publishing legislative and other parliamentary documents, Parliaments more open and accessible to citizens. For more information see www.bungeni.org
UPDATES
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Dec 08, 2009 11:00 PM
An updated version of Akoma Ntoso Team has been released. The new release contains just two minor bug fixes:
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Nov 17, 2009 11:00 PM
Participants to the parallel session 'Open standards for parliamentary documentation: cooperative approaches' of the World e-Parliament Conference 2009 co-organized by the United Nations, the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the U.S. House of Representatives and the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament (3-5 Nov 2009) engaged in discussions on converging XML standards for parliamentary and legislative documents.
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Nov 17, 2009 11:00 PM
Bungeni - Parliamentary Information System was presented at the parallel session "Systems for managing the life cycle of legislative documentation" of the World e-Parliament Conference 2009 in Washington DC. The presentation covered Bungeni bill processing highlighting the amendments, annotations processes and how this can be done by the different stakeholders in the cycle of the bill. The presentation also highlighted the MPs , Clerk and Speaker's work flows in developing and processing the different parliamentary content such as motions, questions, and supporting Committee work.
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Oct 24, 2009 11:00 PM
One of the upcoming feature additions to the Bungeni Editor is integration with the eXist XML repository. This will allow a unified workflow where documents are marked up transformed to Akoma Ntoso XML and posted to the XML db.
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Executive Summary
