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Antoni Gutiérrez-Rubí gutierrez-rubi.es PARLIAMENTS ON THE NET X Senado

OPPORTUNITIES FOR AN OPEN PARLIAMENT. Antoni Gutiérrez-Rubí www.gutierrez-rubi.es PARLIAMENTS ON THE NET X Senado Madrid, May 31 – June 1, 2012. 4. Challenges from a communications perspective . A. The institutional “competence” .

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Antoni Gutiérrez-Rubí gutierrez-rubi.es PARLIAMENTS ON THE NET X Senado

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  1. OPPORTUNITIES FOR AN OPEN PARLIAMENT Antoni Gutiérrez-Rubíwww.gutierrez-rubi.es PARLIAMENTS ON THE NET X Senado Madrid, May 31 – June 1, 2012

  2. 4 Challenges from a communications perspective

  3. A The institutional “competence” The active role that other parliaments will have in the configuration of new local services, transparency and accountability. Parliaments 2.0 as an unstoppable reality.

  4. B Political and institutional legitimacy deficit In times of crisis, there is a permanent debate about the role of parliaments and its congressmen. Politicians as the third major problem in Spain.

  5. reputation Weariness Vote abstention Protest vote no politics no politicians Political parties ideology privileges

  6. C Costs and privileges Questioning political representation, its privileges, as well as its operating costs

  7. Change in relationships D Profound change in the relationships between representatives and the represented and the increase of “controlled policy” which in turn, will allow different initiatives 1. Monitoring 2. Control and supervision 3. Permanent information 4. Visualizations 5. Accountability platforms 6. Activism

  8. 1. Monitoring

  9. http://mciiw.info/quicopiequi/

  10. http://www.writetothem.com/ Visitor introduces postal code and is informed of whom are his/her representatives. He/She may write an e-mail or send a fax.

  11. http://www.theyworkforyou.com/ The postal code is introduced and the English Parliament representatives appear with detailed information on each other: laws they have voted for, what questions have they asked and on how many debates have they intervened.

  12. It also works so that english politicans know: • that they are being observed • that what they say is commented • that often they are contacted directly because of something they have said in a debate, an assembly or parliament.

  13. http://www.epvote.eu/ Thanks to very visual graphs, you can get to know all the activities of the European parliament, including the congressmen assistance.

  14. http://parlamento.openpolis.it/ Analysis on the Italian Parliament, specially measuring its members productivity based on their appearances and initiatives

  15. http://theyworkforyou.co.nz/ Monitoring of the laws in the New Zeland Parliament. The public can review and see links news or blogs.

  16. http://www.parlio.org/ Basque parliamentary activity with the most recent initiatives, the most involved members, and it is labeled by theme

  17. 2. Control and Supervision

  18. http://quehacenlosdiputados.wordpress.com/

  19. Good examples of the administration

  20. 3. Permanent Information

  21. 4. Visualization

  22. http://www.openspending.org/it-regional-accounts

  23. http://dondevanmisimpuestos.es

  24. Propublica.org: Who’s Making Money From All This Campaign Spending?

  25. 5. Accountability Platforms

  26. http://electos.gobierno20.es/islas-baleares/Entradas.aspx

  27. 6. Activism and Social pressure

  28. E Opportunities Ideas to change things

  29. Broadcast Network: Communication and interaction Apps Public data Opportunities Co-creation Online petitions Transparency

  30. Tucídides “Any power tends to go to the limit of its power. The time for vigilance has come”

  31. Decalogue

  32. 1 Obligation to inform and be accountable every day (not every four years during elections)

  33. 2 Parliaments generate a lot of information. But it is not theirs, is the citizens’. It must be public

  34. 3 Citizens must be able to trace, track and measure parliamentary processes

  35. 4 The public should be involved and should be given tools to do so

  36. 5 The registration of activities, meetings and parliamentary requests must be open and accessible to everyone

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