Respecting the Constitution, texts available include:
Respecting the Codes, all national codes currently in force appear to be available.
According to the README file, these texts are being distributed as part of the French Government’s Grande Participation Citoyenne initiative.
This repository is another example of GitLaw.
Open Legislative Data in Paris: A Conference of the Third Kind with Hacktivists and Academics, is being held 6-7 July 2012, at Sciences Po, Paris, France.
[To see details about the conference, click here, and then, on the menu bar, cursor over "Conference / Conférence".]
Click here for the conference program.
Click here for archived Twitter tweets from the conference, in .csv format.
The Twitter hashtag for the conference is #oldp.
Click here for livestream of the conference.
Click here for collaborative notes from the conference.
The conference is sponsored by Regards Citoyens, Centre d’études européennes Sciences Po, and Le médialab Sciences Po.
A call for proposals — with submission deadline of 28 April 2012 — has been issued for Open Legislative Data in Paris: A Conference of the Third Kind with Hacktivists and Academics, to be held 6-7 July 2012, at Sciences Po, Paris, France.
[To see details about the conference, click here, and then, on the menu bar, cursor over "Conference / Conférence".]
The conference is sponsored by Regards Citoyens, Centre d’études européennes Sciences Po, and Le médialab Sciences Po.
According to the conference announcement, proposals are invited:
on any aspects of parliamentary studies linked to the use of computer science, be it in order to present existing projects, to explore new informatics tool, to discuss their effects, to analyze legislatures through open parliamentary data . . .
Special attention will be given to the five following areas:
- Law tracking. How MPs change draft bill in assemblies? Is there a way of collecting and presenting systematic data about the amendments?
- Roll call analysis. How MPs vote in assemblies? How can their votes be presented through dynamic informatics visualization? Public access to their votes being almost always partial, what is the value of focusing only on on-line accessible votes? Also, what is the added-value of software developments for the spatial theory of voting in assemblies?
- Discourse analysis. How MPs talk in assemblies? Studies of political discourse through lexicometry computer programs have developed strong results to that question. What is therefore the impact of a greater online access to parliamentary public debate?
- Parliamentary informatics in developing countries. What is the state of open data related to legislatures in developing countries? What is or can be the role of the on-line access to those data for improving democracy? For fighting against corruption?
- The pros and the cons of opening data for parliaments. Can we assess concrete improvements of parliamentary democracy through the development of on-line access to their activity? On which aspect (corruption, attendance, law quality, parliamentary turnover, electoral participation…)? Conversely, what are the threats associated with increasing transparency in legislatures?
For more information, please see the announcement (on the menu bar, cursor over “Conference / Conférence” to see details).
