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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