Last November, Dan Swislow wrote a post about how PMOs and parliaments are collaborating to help parliaments become, more open, accountable and engaging of citizens, and more effective institutions in the process. This issue came up in a recent discussion in the PMO Google Group, when José Félix Ontañón, a member of the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) Spain and co-founder of OpenKratio asked for some cases and experiences on collaboration agreements between PMOs and Parliaments.
We have aggregated and followed up on some of the examples people provided. Here are some of the great initiatives discussed and a couple of others: