The full programme of the conference is available as PDF here.
Organisers:
The Law Factory (Sciences Po, CEE, Regards Citoyens, Médialab)
Contact: contact@lafabriquedelaloi.fr
FRIDAY, JULY 6th MORNING (Sciences Po, Amphitheatre Caquot, 28 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 – Paris)
08.45-09.15: Registration, Welcome Coffee
09.15-10.30: Opening plenary
Olivier Rozenberg (Sciences Po, CEE), Welcoming Address
Regards Citoyens, Presentation of the Law Factory project
Scott Hubli (National Democratic Institute) and Maria Baron (Latin America Network for Legislative Transparency), Towards a Declaration on Parliamentary Openness
10.30-10.45: Coffee Break
10.45-12.45: Plenary Session
Speakers:
Daniel Schuman (Sunlight Foundation, USA), Transparency in the US Congress USA (10’)
Claire-Emmanuelle Longuet (Conseiller, Direction de la séance, Sénat, France), AMELI and BASILE: Informatics tools and the Sénat’s procedure (5’)
Ashok Hariharan (UN/DESA – Africa i-Parliaments, Kenya), Akoma Ntoso and Bungeni: Open standards and Open Source Applications for a sustainable open access to parliamentary activities: the experiences and applications of Africa i-Parliaments (10’)
Ana Carvalho and Ricardo Lafuente (Manufactura Independente, Portugal), Persuasive Interfaces (5’)
Brian Crisp, Matt Gabel, Simon Hug (Washington University in St. Louis, USA), Roll call Votes and Transparency (10’)
Alexandre Girard (Tetalab France), Politimap: Visualizing Parlementary Activities (5’)
Jonathan Bright (European University Institute, Italy), Measuring Legislative Oversight (10’)
Baptiste Coulmont (Université Paris 8, France), Collaboration Network Among Political Groups (5’)
Gregor Hackmack (ParliamentWatch Germany), ParliamentWatch (10’)
Adrian Moraru (Institute for Public Policy, Romania), Using IT Technology in Roll Call Analysis to Make the Romanian MP More Accountable (5’)
Tom Steinberg (My society, UK), Let’s Collaborate on PMO Software: A Proposal (10’)
Stefan Marsiske (Free software developer, Hungary), Hacking for Freedom in the EU (5’)
Dirk Junge and Daniel Finke (MZES, University of Mannheim, Germany), Unveiling Bargaining in Legislatures: how Parliaments Shape Policy Proposals and What Legislative Behaviour Can Tell Us About That (10’ )
FRIDAY, JULY 6th AFTERNOON (Sciences Po, 13 rue de l’Université, 75007 – Paris)
14.00-15.45: SESSION 1: Law Tracking I (up to 10 minutes by talk) (Room J 208)
Speakers:
Lee Peoples (Oklahoma City University), Testing the Limits of WestlawNext
Vincent Rasneur (France), Parsing the French “Journal Officiel” to Show the Evolution of Law
Margaret Ariotti (Pennsylvania State University, USA), The Penn State Legislative Speech Projects
Guibert Sandrine (Magillem France), Impact analysis and Consolidation of Regulatory and Legislatory Texts Using JORF LEGI Flows`
Maria Baron, (Fundacion Directorio Legislative, Argentina), Latin America: an overview of organizations that pressure Parliaments towards more transparency
Jacques Verrier (UTC, France), Visualising the Law, a Cartographic Exploration Device of French Legislation
14.00-15.45: SESSION 2: Parliamentary Monitoring (up to 10 minutes by talk) (Room J 210)
Speakers:
Aline Pennisi (Openpolis, Italy), Open parlamento, Productivity index, the Open Polis Experience With “Camere Aperte”
Aspasia Papaloi (University of Athens, Greece), The role of transparency and the (trans)formation of democracy through an open legislative process
Guillermo Ávila (Fundar, Center of Analysis and Research Cityvox Mexico), Curul 501. Your Seat in Congress
Orsolya Vincze (K-Monitor Watchdog for Public Funds, Hungary), Tracking Conflict of Interest, Lobby and Corruption Through Open Legislative Data
Tiina Ruohonen (Holder de ord Norway), Holder de ord: Introducing Monitory Democracy to Norway – Methodology and lessons learnt
Ignas Rubikas and Mano Seimas (Transparency International Lithuania), Accessing and Socializing. Parliamentary Data in Lithuania
Bogdan Manolea (Association for Technology and Internet – ApTI, Romania), Romanian Examples of Open Legislative Data
14.00-15.45: SESSION 3: Roll call Votes Analysis and Accountability (up to 10 minutes by talk), (Room J 211)
Speakers:
Michal Skop (University of Hradec KOHOVOLIT Kralove, Czech Republic), Roll-call analyses in motion
Mihail Chiru (Central European University Budapest and Median Research Center Bucharest, Romania), The Trap of Self-Evident Statistics: Parliamentary Monitoring Tools in Romania
Marco Bani (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy), We-transparency: Grassroots Transparency Policies
Jami Pekkanen (Kansan muisti ry, Finland), Calculating Honesty: Quantitative Comparison of Election Promises and Delivery
Ramiro Alvarez, (ADC, Argentina), Is Open Data the Key to Open Congress’ Lock? A Proposal for Developing Countries
15.45-16.15: Coffee Break
16.15-18.00: SESSION 4: Law Tracking or Law Hacking II (up to 10 minutes by talk) (Room J 208)
Speakers:
Erik Josefsson (Greens/EFAGroup, European Parliament), Presentation of the European Parliament’s Automatic Tool for Amendments (at4am)
François Briatte (IEP Grenoble, France), Turning Parliamentary Websites into Legislative Data: A Look at Debate Allocation in the French National Assembly
Lewis John McGibbney (Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland, UK), Through the Spyglass: User-Oriented Drafting Work-Flows for Secondary Legislation Artifacts
Enrico Borghetto (University of Milan, Italy), Italian: Law-Making Archive: A New Tool For the Analysis Of the Italian Legislative Process
Bogdan Manolea (Association for Technology and Internet – ApTI, Romania), Romanian Examples of Open Legislative Data
Vincent Michel (Logilab, France), Information Extraction from News Articles Using Open Datasets
16.15-18.00: SESSION 5: Opening Legislative Data in Challenging Environments (up to 10 minutes by talk) (Room J 210)
Speakers:
David Pulkol (Africa Leadership Institute, Uganda), Parliamentary Monitoring in Uganda
Chakshu Roy (PRS Legislative Research, India), Effectiveness of Legislatures in Developing Countries
Constantin Vica (University of Bucharest, Romania), Open Data and the Quest of Meaning
Fabrizio Scrollini (University of Tasmania, Autralia), Access to Information and Open Government Data in Latin America
Alvaro Mouriño (Uruguay), Available Does not Mean Open: The Challenge of Scraping
Rashaad Alli (Voice of the People, South Africa), Parliamentary Monitoring Group
Selim Kharrat (Al Bawsala, Tunisia), Introducing Marsad.tn
16.15-18.00: SESSION 6: Involving All Citizens in the Legislative Process and Parliament Monitoring (up to 10 minutes by talk) (Room J 211)
Speakers:
Pedro Markun (Transparência Hacker, Brazil), Hacker Bus – Taking the Action Down to the Ground
Peninah Mutuneh (SODNET, Kenya), Huduma
Daniel Devatman Hromada (Kyberia think tank, Slovakia), Initiation to Parallel Democracy Model
Emanuele Achino (Politecnico di Torino, Italy), Hack / Hacking Movements: Participation and Communication Technology in the Information Societies
Elira Zaka (Centre for Parliamentary Studies, Albania), Open Parliament-Basis for Transparency and Accountability of MPs
Leo Lahti (Louhos, Finland), Open Analytics for Parliamentary Data in Finland
18.00-19.30: Cocktail
SATURDAY, JULY 7th (“La Cantine”, 151 rue Montmartre, Passage des Panoramas 12 Galerie Montmartre, 75002 Paris)
09.00-09.30: Welcome Coffee
09.30-10.30 Open discussions on collaboration and sharing tools for Open Legislative Data
Moderators: Pedro Markun (Transparencia Hackers Brazi) and Tom Steinberg (MySociety, UK)
10.30-12.30: Technical and advocacy workshop sessions/ Informal talks
12.30-13.00: Declaration on Parliamentary Openness
13.00-14.00: Lunch buffet
From 14.00: Informal Talks