Commitment 2: Usability and functionality improvements of the ‘Parliamentary Transparency’ section of the Hellenic Parliament website
Context
The ‘Parliamentary Transparency’ section of the Hellenic Parliament portal is an important effort to promote openness and transparency of the parliamentary work. Founded in January 1st, 2014, it allows citizens to be better informed about the work of the Parliament, its management and administration, its budget drafting and implementation, contracting, supplies and issues relating to its personnel.
Commitment description
Enhancement and improvement of the functionality offered by the ‘Parliamentary Transparency’ section of the Hellenic Parliament portal. Provision of open structured information.
OGP values
Access to information, technology and innovation for parliamentary transparency, accountability
Implementing bodies
Implementation: Hellenic Parliament
Collaboration with other Parliaments and institutions for protocol standardization and provision of open software.
Objectives
Increased web traffic on the ‘Parliamentary Transparency’ section will enable improvement both at the institutional and technological level, while providing room for accountability strengthening.
Milestones – Timescales
• Provision of the visitor information via RSS (Rich Site Summary) either by subject area or by type of decision,
• Development of the ‘FAQ’ section, for institutional and technological questions originating from visitor feedback ,
• Questionnaire concerning visitor experience regarding usability, accessibility and institutional level,
• Publication of statistical data,
• Provision of structured information (based on open standards) for execution of the budget by the Parliament.
Visualisation of budget implementation (e.g. OpenSpending)
Distribute budget related open data in various formats (CSV, RDF, etc.)