- 1. Africa i-Parliaments Action Plan ASHOK HARIHARAN
[email protected] UNITED NATIONS Department of Economic and
Social Affairs Akoma NtosoBungeni @JIAMCATT 2013
2. Opportunities Gap practical approach e-paper, locally focused
solutions technological opportunities- Semantic web, Open and
Shareable solutions .... between... AND 3. Open Source & Open
Standards as strategic choices Open Source & Open Standards as
strategic choices advance information servicesadvance information
services high quality and sustainable systemshigh quality and
sustainable systems BECAUSE these provide the best way to deliver
to all Public Administrations open semantic standardsopen semantic
standards To acquire, elaborate and preserve information and data
open source softwareopen source software build collaboratively high
quality sustainable information systems 4. information is the
lifeline of a democratic parliament effectiveness of information
acquisition, elaboration and publication determines the capacity of
parliaments to make informed decisions and citizens to exercise
informed participation information >> lifeline 5. United
Nations organizations are information factories acquisition and
management of information is one of the most critical functions Of
UN Organizations they acquire, elaborate and disseminate
information information >> processing 6. Information factory
e v o l u t i o n of printing 7. reproduce text and images =
present information do logical operations on text = process
information but printers are not computers 8. ICT brought about a
revolution the ability to : process INFORMATION distribute through
different media reuse information and not just display/disseminate
DOCUMENTS 9. ICT is not about faster typewriters Not about just
distribution of information Is about processing of information! 10.
content: written words presentation : typographical presentation
document components paper / e-paper era semantic standard era 11.
ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTION BANDITRY MENACE IN GALOLE Mr. Adam asked
the Minister of State, Office of the President whether he is aware
that .. (Question deferred) Mr. Speaker Anybody from the Office of
the President? Mr. Cameroon Mr. Speaker, Sir, the answer is being
prepared (Several Members stood up in their places) documents: what
we see 12. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTION BANDITRY MENACE IN GALOLE Mr.
Adam asked the Minister of State, Office of the President whether
he is aware that .. (Question deferred) Mr. Speaker Anybody from
the Office of the President? Mr. Cameroon Mr. Speaker, Sir, the
answer is being prepared (Several Members stood up in their places)
& centred> & centred> & centred> documents:
paper/e-paper carry ... 13. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONSBANDITRY
MENACE IN GALOLEMr. Adam
asked the Minister of State, Office of the President
whether he is aware that
(Question deferred) Mr. Speaker
Anybody from the Office of the President?
Mr. Cameroon
Mr. Speaker, Sir, the answer is being prepared
(Several hon. Members stood up in their places) documents: what
computers want to see 14. HTML/PDF/Word present information Open
semantic standards understand information semantic standards
understand 15. Machine Readable presentation structure &
semantic content ALLOWS Delivery of high quality information
services semantic standards machine readability 16. paper era BILL
ORDER OF THE DAY HANSARD VOTES & PROCEEDING APPROVED BILL
LIBRARY 17. e-paper era BILL ORDER OF THE DAY HANSARD VOTES &
PROCEEDING APPROVED BILL WEBSITE 18. smart documents era Open
Standards make this possible Open Source make this available to all
19. Akoma Ntoso XML framework www.akomantoso.org supports the XML
markup of parliamentary, legislative and judiciary documents. OPEN
STANDARD Bungeni www.bungeni.org Parliamentary and Legislative
Information System based on an open source suite of software
applications. OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE Africa i-Parliament: How did we
fill the gaps where are we? 20. XML open standard for
parliamentary, legislative and judiciary documents; Self contained
for long term preservation Designed to facilitate the interchange
of documents among institutions and countries; Large Akoma Ntoso
community and interest in the standard is very high; OASIS
fast-track candidate as XML international standard and is currently
used by many parliaments including the European Parliament. Akoma
Ntoso where are we? 21. Akoma Ntoso: the results of many efforts
2000: European Parliament set up ParlML: A Common Vocabulary for
Parliamentary Language. 2003: ParlML ahead of its time, failed.
2005: Our project funded the first version what today we call Akoma
Ntoso, then called Pan African Parliamentary Interoperability
(PAPI) Framework Initiative 2006: Akoma Ntoso is born expanded to
Legislative and Judicial documents 2009: Akoma Ntoso 1.0 is
released 2011: Akoma Ntoso 2.0 is released 2012: Feb 2012 A Fast
Track Technical Committee set up in OASIS for the stadardisation of
Akoma Ntoso as publically managed international standard 2012:
Adopted by European Parliament as their offical format for
Legislation Other parliaments Chile, Brazil, Uruguay 2013: Italian
Senate starts publishing its Documents in Akoma Ntoso US House of
Congress announces plans to provide the US Code in Akoma Ntoso
Akoma Ntoso 3.0 released 22. OASIS Technical Committee Membership
Africa i-Parliaments Action Plan (UN/DESA) Biblioteca del Congreso
Nacional de Chile Bloomberg Finance L.P. Cornell Law School, Legal
Information Institute European Parliament Ghana Parliament Kenya
National Council for Law Reporting Lebanese Parliament LexisNexis,
a Division of Reed Elsevier Mauritius National Assembly Parlamento
del Uruguay Italian Senate Uganda Parliament University of
Bologna-CIRSFID US Military Health Services Wells Fargo 23. OASIS :
How long are we keeping these docs ? Short term concern Being able
to be used in many different ways Multi-channel presentation,
document workflow, document lifecycle, document translation,
point-in-time consolidation, semantic searches and classifications,
etc. Long term concern Being able to use the documents in 5, 10, 50
years time It means not relying on any software architecture, nor
on the existence of specific resources, documents and manuals but
the documents themselves which in turn means self-containment,
self-description, rich set of metadata, expressive markup, etc. 24.
OASIS : Content vs Structure vs Semantics vs Presentation We can
give up semantics if all we need is publication on paper or on
screen structure if all we need is one specific presentation choice
(e.g., the original one) content if all we need is the trace of the
document in the workflow But if we need all of these uses, then we
need all of these aspects. Akoma Ntoso has a place for each one of
these aspects 25. Akoma Ntoso: how can it fit me ? 26. Some Types
of documents Draft resolution (bill) Amendment Form (amendment)
Consolidated resolution (bill) Approved resolution (act) Record of
the Plenary Section (debate) Other document types... 27. Services
Track the amendments of the resolution during the drafting phase
Coordinate different draft resolutions Trace the relationships
between different versions of the same resolution Publish the
Official Records 28. Designed to support Languages &
Translation Uses IFLA FRBR Hierarchy to classify and identify
documents : work, expression, manifestation & item - with URIs
Support for multiple languages within documents Identification of
Text fragments and annotation with metadata Workflow support manage
document evolution; identify sources: authority, changes, time of
changes ; identify all actors 29. Open Source Tools ! Bungeni Suite
of Applications Bungeni Editor Legislative Drafting Tool XML
Repository Search & Query XML AT4AM Amendment Tool from the
European Parliament Integration with Bungeni Bungeni Legislative
Process & Workflow Management XML Storage 30. Bungeni Editor
Legislative Drafter To Produce XML 31. AT4AM XML Amendment Tool 32.
Supporting Tools Subschema Generator Generate customized Schemas
http://generator.akomantoso.org 33. Semantic technologies are the
Future The UN may invent their own standard but why not build on an
existing standard and leverage of tools A Common Open semantic
standard will provide same (if not better) level of services but
with more flexibility & independence and at lower cost
http://www.akomantoso.org http://www.bungeni.org To sum up ... 34.
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