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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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OASIS LegalDocML Technical Committee (Akoma Ntoso) holds its first meeting

Apr 05, 2012 04:35 AM

The LegalDocumentML (LegalDocML) Technical Committee (TC), set up “to promote a common legal document standard (based on Akoma Ntoso) that promotes world-wide best practices for the use of XML” to deal with parliamentary, legislative and judiciary documents, held its first meeting last 30 March.

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Global Survey of ICT in Parliament

Apr 05, 2012 04:33 AM

The Global Centre for ICT in Parliament has recently launched the Global Survey of ICT in Parliaments 2012, which will allow to measure progress of e-parliament including the changes due to recent technological developments.

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Akoma Ntoso and Bungeni featured at the International Conference on Achieving Greater Transparency in Legislatures through the Use of Open Document Standards.

Mar 08, 2012 11:35 AM

The International Conference on Achieving Greater Transparency in Legislatures through the Use of Open Document Standards was convened by the US House of Representatives in collaboration with the Global Centre for ICTs in Parliaments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Washington DC from 27 to29 February 2012.

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Akoma Ntoso on the path to becoming a fully recognised international standard

Feb 13, 2012 08:05 AM

The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) www.oasis-open.org, a not-for-profit consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of open standards for the global information society, began the process to establish a LegalDocumentML (LeDML) Technical Committee to set in motion the procedures that will lead to formal acceptance of Akoma Ntoso as OASIS standard for legislative and parliamentary documents as well as judgements.

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Akoma Ntoso v2.0 has been released

Nov 03, 2011 09:35 AM

This a minor release of Akoma Ntoso with some additions and bug fixes drawn from discussions held at the Ravenna Legislative XML Summer School in September 2011.

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