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We are excited to hold a workshop on Open Parliamentary Data together with HowTheyVote.eu and the #OpenDataRanking-team (Open Knowledge Foundation DE) at the Free Knowledge Habitat at #39c3. Join us […]

Plenary session transcripts are, for example, processed by Open Parliament TV and, by linking them with video recordings of the Bundestag, open an accessible and easily searchable window into democratic […]

Erika and Joscha attended TICTeC 2025 in Mechelen, Belgium. TICTeC — the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference — is the world’s leading summit on pro-democracy technology, organized by mySociety. The […]

Last week we spoke at a Hackathon in Taiwan which was all about making parliaments more transparent and accessible. We shared our experiences working with German parliamentary data and exchanged […]

Olivier and Joscha presented their paper, “Making Parliamentary Debates More Accessible: Aligning Video Recordings with Text Proceedings in Open Parliament TV“, at the ParlaCLARIN IV Workshop in Turin. ParlaCLARIN is an academic workshop series focused on […]

Joscha Jäger introduces Open Parliament TV, a project that seeks to build up trust in parliamentary democracy, by making political decision processes more transparent, trustworthy, and participatory; and its relation […]

We were at the 20th Gulaschprogrammiernacht in Karlsruhe and looking for an exchange about open parliamentary data. There was, for instance, an exciting lecture on OpenData and volunteering (in German)

Video recordings of parliamentary debates offer great untapped potential for digital democracy. They are more tangible than text documents or voting lists and an easily accessible “window” to the discussions, […]