opening parliaments - strengthening democracy

Stephen Abbott

Opening up information from the UK Parliament

Parliament’s position

• Transcripts for all debates at Parliament• Live streaming video and archived video clips• Publication of all parliamentary/committee reports• Biographical information on all members of Parliament• Members’ financial interests published• Public information for visitors/tourists/schools

Things we don’t do yet• Voting records• Attendance records• Reusable data for all of the above

Challenges

• Keeping pace with technological change• Readers accessing parliament.uk on the move• Instant information demand• Reshaping and refining services as we go• Reliance on other companies, like Google

• Battling political apathy/decrease in voter engagement• Adding utility to parliamentary information• What will Parliament of the future look like?• How will we share parliamentary information?

made by @jamesthompson8, @harryrickards, @ruben_fb1 + @rcsurfer http://harryrickards.com/

made by @premasagar, @prcweb + @05creativehttp://toetheline.org.uk/

http://data.parliament.uk/membersdataplatform/memberquery.aspx

Thank you

Twitter: @Stephen_AbbottEmail: abbotts@parliament.uk