AT4AM for ALL, the web editor for amending legislation of the European Parliament is released in Open Source

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The first version of Akoma Ntoso released by OASIS.

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Akoma Ntoso now used as a document format by the Italian Senate

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The Africa i-Parliament Action Plan (Jul 2008-Dec 2012) is coming to an end, hence an External Evaluation was carried out to assess the different activities of the Project. Two evaluation reports (“Bungeni & Akoma Ntoso” and “APKN”) were presented during the “Project Evaluation: Stakeholder Validation Workshop", organized in Nairobi, Kenya, on 20 November 2012.

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The World e-Parliament Conference 2012 was held at the Chamber of Deputies of Italy, in Rome, on 13 and 14 September. The Conference was co-organized by the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union, through the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament, and gathered the community of parliaments – with delegations from more than 130 countries – to reflect on the new opportunities offered by ICTs to improve representation, transparency, accountability, openness and effectiveness of parliaments worldwide.

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Evidence-based legislative design, common standards and guidelines, free access to online legislation, ICTs as critical tools to enable open access to laws and sharing of experience. These are among the main issues discussed on the occasion of the workshop “Building Capacity for Legislative Drafting in Africa”, organized by the Africa Parliamentary Knowledge Network (APKN) and the Commonwealth Association of Legislative Counsel (CALC-Africa Region) in Cape Town, South Africa, on 4-5 July 2012.

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The “Bungeni Know-How Transfer” workshop, organised by the Africa i-Parliament Action Plan in collaboration with the Centre for Information and Communication of the University Eduardo Mondlane (CUIEM) and hosted by the Mozambique National Assembly, was held in Maputo, Mozambique, from 16 to 20 July 2012.

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The Africa i-Parliaments Action Plan shared its experience in the use of open standards (OS) and open source software (OSS) within African parliaments at the international workshop “Leadership Capacity-Development for Improved Delivery of Public Services in Africa using Information and Communication Technologies”.

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Akoma Ntoso and the “APKN Legislative Drafting Guidelines” were presented on the occasion of the international conference on “Law Reform and the Law Making Process”, held on 16 and 17 July 2012 in Abuja, Nigeria. The event was attended by Speakers and Members representing several African National Parliaments, as well as members of the ECOWAS Parliament and members of the Nigerian ‘Senators Forum’.

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A workshop on “Bungeni Know-How Transfer” is being convened by the Africa i-Parliament Action Plan for software developers from selected African parliaments and will take place in Maputo, Mozambique, on 16-19 July 2012.

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The Africa Parliamentary Knowledge Network (APKN) and the Commonwealth Association of Legislative Counsel (CALC-Africa Region) are convening representatives from African parliaments and government departments at a workshop on “Building Capacity for Legislative Drafting in Africa”, to be held in Cape Town, South Africa, on 4-5 July 2012. The workshop will be hosted by the Parliament of South Africa (current Chair of APKN) and supported by the Africa i-Parliament Action Plan of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN/DESA).

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“Providing knowledge of the most significant ICT standards emerging for legislation, judiciary, parliamentary and administrative documents”; this is the main goal of the 2012 edition of the Legislative XML Summer School LEX12, to be held in Ravenna, Italy, from 10 to 15 September.

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Akoma Ntoso and Bungeni featured at International Workshop "Identifying benefits deriving from the adoption of XML-based chains for drafting legislation". The workshop, hosted by the Office of the Promotion of Parliamentary Democracy of the European Parliament in collaboration with the Global Center of ICT in Parliaments, has been attended by participants from 14 different public organisations.

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On 19 May, the International Legislation UnHackathon was held at Hastings College of Law of the University of California, in San Francisco.

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Bungeni Editor was featured in the Final Analysis Report of the ISA LEOS Project (Legislative Editing Open Software).

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LEGAL HACKS is hosting an International Legislation UnHackathon sponsored by the Hastings Science & Technology Law Journal. Next 19 May, at the Hastings College of Law of the University of California, attorneys and technologists will gather in groups and “mark up” existing laws into an XML format based on Akoma Ntoso.

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Akoma Ntoso has been featured on an article in the Library of Congress website.

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The LegalDocumentML (LegalDocML) Technical Committee (TC), set up “to promote a common legal document standard (based on Akoma Ntoso) that promotes world-wide best practices for the use of XML” to deal with parliamentary, legislative and judiciary documents, held its first meeting last 30 March.

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The 126th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and other related meetings will be held in Kampala, Uganda, from 31st March to 5th April 2012.

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The Global Centre for ICT in Parliament has recently launched the Global Survey of ICT in Parliaments 2012, which will allow to measure progress of e-parliament including the changes due to recent technological developments.

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