AKOMANTOSO

Akoma Ntoso, "linked hearts" in the language of the Akan people of West Africa and symbol of understanding and agreement, is a set of common XML standards that allow to exchange and reuse parliamentary, legislative and judiciary documents more efficiently.

Akoma Ntoso is a set of simple, technology-neutral XML machine-readable descriptions of official documents such as legislation, debate record, minutes, etc. that enable addition of descriptive structure (markup) to the content of parliamentary and legislative documents.

AKOMA NTOSO XML schema make “accessible” structure and semantic components of digital documents supporting the creation of high value information services to deliver the power of ICTs to support efficiency and accountability in the parliamentary, legislative and judiciary contexts.

AKOMA NTOSO is an initiative of "Africa i-Parliament Action Plan" (www.parliaments.info) a programme of UN/DESA.