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Akoma Ntoso (“linked hearts” in Akan language of West Africa) defines a “machine readable” set of simple technology-neutral electronic representations (in XML format) of parliamentary, legislative and judiciary documents.

 

Akoma Ntoso  XML schemas make “visible” the structure and semantic components of relevant digital documents so as to support the creation of high value information services to deliver the power of ICTs to increase 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.

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AT4AM for ALL, the web editor for amending legislation of the European Parliament is released in Open Source

Apr 02, 2013 01:40 AM

AT4AM for All is the Open Source release of AT4AM, the web-based amendment authoring tool used at the European Parliament.

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Akoma Ntoso adopted by the Italian Senate

Mar 18, 2013 11:20 AM

Akoma Ntoso now used as a document format by the Italian Senate

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Akoma Ntoso Version 3.0 released - approved by OASIS LegalDocML Technical Committee Conference

Mar 18, 2013 11:20 AM

The first version of Akoma Ntoso released by OASIS.

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Project Evaluation: Stakeholder Validation Workshop

Nov 29, 2012 10:00 AM

The Africa i-Parliament Action Plan (Jul 2008-Dec 2012) is coming to an end, hence an External Evaluation was carried out to assess the different activities of the Project. Two evaluation reports (“Bungeni & Akoma Ntoso” and “APKN”) were presented during the “Project Evaluation: Stakeholder Validation Workshop", organized in Nairobi, Kenya, on 20 November 2012.

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Bungeni and Akoma Ntoso at the World e-Parliament Conference 2012

Sep 26, 2012 05:10 PM

The World e-Parliament Conference 2012 was held at the Chamber of Deputies of Italy, in Rome, on 13 and 14 September. The Conference was co-organized by the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union, through the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament, and gathered the community of parliaments – with delegations from more than 130 countries – to reflect on the new opportunities offered by ICTs to improve representation, transparency, accountability, openness and effectiveness of parliaments worldwide.

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