― Attachment links are at the end of this email ― From: John Wonderlich <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 10:04 AM Subject: [Poplus] Open Up Your Legislature (!)
Hello everyone, I'm sure most of you are aware of the several events surrounding the Global Legislative Openness Week (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. 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, 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we have looked through this list, it has come to our attention that some of the information on national assemblies is out of date.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 -- Poplus.org - Get involved: http://poplus.org/get-involved Notes: https://popluscon.hackpad.com IRC: #poplus https://webchat.freenode.net - ᐧ Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire now contains the following file http://groups.dowire.org/r/file/xZiXqdfLHHCy51H9HRK7bCFiMmH-wCs-2tOy2Tu Name: OpenUpYourLegislatureletter.pdf Tags: "attachment" Type: application/pdf Size: 122KB You can view all the file that have been added to Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire at http://groups.dowire.org/s/?g=newswire&t=0&p=0&f=1 ----------------------------------------- Group home for Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire: http://groups.dowire.org/groups/newswire Replies go to members of Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire with all posts on this topic here: http://groups.dowire.org/r/topic/4qheWren9TiL0O3V9cSJMQ For digest version or to leave Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire, email [email protected] with "digest on" or "unsubscribe" in the *subject*. Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire is hosted by Democracies Online - http://dowire.org.
