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IPU recommendations on good practice for parliamentary websites General information page A parliament that is open and transparent I 59 ■ Overview of the composition and functions of the national parliament and its constituent bodies; ■ Full text of the Standing Orders, rules of procedure or similar rule-setting documents; ■ Text of the country’s Constitution (where applicable) ■ List of international and regional parliamentary assemblies of which the parliament is a member. Electoral system ■ Explanation of the election procedure (voting system, electoral constituencies, who votes, who can be elected, nomination requirements, who conducts the election, etc.) ■ Results of the last elections by party affiliation and constituency. Legislative process ■ Schematic explanation of the legislative process; ■ Legislative agenda and schedule of the current session; ■ Searchable database of legislative acts enacted by the current legislature; ■ Status of current parliamentary business by bill number, topic, title, date, document code, parliamentary body, etc. Presiding Officers ■ Biodata of the current Presiding Officer of the parliament or parliamentary chamber; ■ Brief description of the Presiding Officer’s powers and prerogatives; ■ Names of Deputy- and/or Vice-Presidents (where applicable). Mem bers of Parliam ent ■ Up-to-date list of all members grouped alphabetically, by constituency and by party or political affiliation, including membership in parliamentary committees/commissions, and with hyperlinks to the MP’s personal websites (where applicable); ■ Contact information for each member including his or her e-mail address.
60 I PARLIAMENT AND DEMOCRACY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Non-plenary parliam entary bodies ■ Complete list of non-plenary bodies with hyperlinks to separate pages devoted to each body in that category; ■ Description of the mandate and terms of reference of each body; ■ Membership and names of presiding officer(s) of each body; ■ Information on current business and data on upcoming meetings; ■ Relevant contact information of each body. Search tools for the website ■ Quick search utility – this standard intra-site search tool is based on automatic indexing of documents and allows free-text search for words and word combinations throughout the site; ■ What’s New page – an announcement board with direct hyperlinks to the newest documents on the site; ■ Site map – textual or graphical visualisation of the site’s overall structure containing hyperlinks to individual documents. Feedback tools ■ A feedback utility that allows users to send their comments and questions directly to the webmaster; ■ Preconfigured electronic mail for sending messages to parliamentary bodies and individual officers directly from the pages of the website. E xternal hyperlinks ■ Internet users should be able to find their way easily from a national parliament’s website to those of political parties and government institutions, other countries’ parliaments, inter-parliamentary structures, and so on. Source: Inter-Parliamentary Union Further online reading about parliam entary websites: Inter-Parliamentary Union (2000). Guidelines for the content and structure of parliamentary websites. Kingham, T (2003). e-Parliaments: the use of information and communication technologies to improve parliamentary processes. World Bank Institute Norris, P (2000). Online Parliaments in Digital divide: civic engagement, information poverty, and the Internet worldwide (Chapter 7).
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