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Main Expectations: This project envisages empowering African Parliaments with skills, information services and applications that will allow them to become open, participatory, knowledge-based learning and participatory organizations and provide tools to support inter-parliamentary collaboration, shared services and capacity building activities.
Objective/Purpose of Project: This is a follow-up to the pilot project on “Strengthening Parliaments’ Information Systems in Africa” which was implemented from 2004 to 2008. The project aims to foster transparency and access to legislative and parliamentary documents and strengthen inter-parliamentary cooperation and capacity building activities in the Parliaments of Africa, in order to sustain good governance in Africa and allow African Parliaments to better fulfill their democratic functions.
Key Accomplishments (to-date): 1) AKOMA NTOSO - "Architecture for Knowledge-Oriented Management of African Normative Texts using Open Standards and Ontologies" a set of simple, technology-neutral representations of parliamentary, legislative and judiciary documents such as legislation, debate record, minutes, judgments, etc.
2) Bungeni – Parliamentary Information System is an end-to-end suite of applications that provides a world-leading solution for drafting, managing, consolidating and publishing legislative and other parliamentary documents.
3) Legislative Drafting Guidelines for Africa - Given the variety of legislative traditions and languages present in Africa, the project promoted the development of common legislative drafting guidelines to support the harmonization of legislation throughout the Continent.
4) Africa Parliamentary Knowledge Network (APKN) – APKN is a parliamentary network meant to support capacity building activities, common services, sharing experiences and best practices among Afri
Cooperation Partners: DESA/DPADM in cooperation with the African Parliaments, Pan-African Parliament, Regional institutions like EALA, SADC PF, and also European Parliament, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and African and non African universities and NGOs.
Time Frame: May 2005 - June 2012
Funding: XBTC
Proposed Budget: US$6,144,831
Division: PACB