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Bungeni 2.0 is a Parliamentary and Legislative Information System that aims at making Parliaments more open and accessible to citizens ... virtually allowing them " inside Parliament" or "Bungeni"  the Kiswahili word for "inside Parliament".

Bungeni is a collaborative software development initiative based on  open standards, AKOMA NTOSO (www.akomantoso.org) and open source applications that provides a leading solution for drafting, managing, consolidating and publishing legislative and other parliamentary documents.

Bungeni is an initiative of "Africa i-Parliament Action Plan" (www.parliaments.info) a programme of UN/DESA

BUNGENI UPDATES

The BUNGENI Information System will soon be available for test pilots. After several key improvements and updates to the software in terms of components used and their integration, the system is now at a stage where it can be test-driven by different parliaments. Updates on this process will be provided here.
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Bungeni Editor featured in the ISA LEOS Project Final Analysis Report

May 07, 2012 04:00 PM

Bungeni Editor was featured in the Final Analysis Report of the ISA LEOS Project (Legislative Editing Open Software).

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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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Africa i-Parliament Action Plan has recently released the version 2.0 of Akoma Ntoso standard

Aug 26, 2011 06:10 AM

Africa i-Parliament Action Plan, an UN/DESA project meant to support African parliaments in the deployment of ICTs to increase the quality of parliamentary services and civil society participation in the parliamentary process, has recently published a major release of Akoma Ntoso XML standard for parliamentary, legislative and judiciary documents.

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