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Wifi access Network: OLD Login: prince password: 06PVzl9b
#OLDP
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3 worlds far away so close
1. Academia
2. Webdeveloppers & hacktivists
3. Parliaments
our cognition of what a legislature is depends of the available instruments of communication
Séance du parlement de Bourgogne, sous la présidence de Charles le Téméraire vers 1470
Recueil de Gaignières. Maisons étrangères, fol. 38v - 39(d'après un original du XVe siècle)
Dessin, XVIIe siècleBNF, Estampes et photographie, fonds Gaignières 1325, RES OB-10-FOL
parliamentary monitoring: nosdeputes.fr
parliamentary monitoringopenpolis.it
roll-call analysis:votewatch.eu
law tracking: lafabriquedelaloi.fr
2 questions
1. Are ICT (information and communications technologies) a chance for legislatures?
2. What is the goodness of fit between legislatures & ICT?
1. ICT are challenging legislatures
• A threat for the law-making function
• A chance for the democratic control by citizens
A threat for the law-making function
• Parliaments are both judges & juries
• The inefficiency of legislation– Sovereignty– Stability
A chance for the democratic control by the citizens
• The last step of the de-monopolization process
• An opportunity to concretize the fiction of the Tribunal of public opinion
• … a risk of focussing too much on surgeries activities
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1990 2000 2010
France Belgium Finland United Kingdom
Norway European Parliament Spain Italy
number of written questions in West European legislatures (100 = 1990)
2. Which goodness of fits between ICT and parliaments?
Some obvious differences on the conception of territories (bounded or not) and of power (vertical/centralized vs. networks)
But…
The fitness between ICT & legislatures
• Transparency & the great number of data• The logic of packets
“Imagine a sausage cut into pieces that are sent here and there. And at the end, the
sausage arrives safe and sound” Albertine Meunier
• A creative process of aggregation / disaggregation of reality
The discrepancy between ICT & legislatures
Parliaments are:
1. a group of different guys that:
2. stay physically in the same place,
3. talk,
4. take decision after talking,
5. without using physical violence
-> a pre-modern process of moderation of power through pluralism & speech that can not really be told by ICT