
The Akoma Ntoso Open Standard
Documents standard for legislative and judicial documents
Jun 2020
1 Mon
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4 Thu 07:00 PM – 08:30 PM IST
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There is a lot talk about new standards and protocols that are upcoming to transform governance and consumer applications in India. In this series of talks, Fifth Elephant’s focus is on open standards and how they are used everywhere from governance to building blocks of of internet. This series is being initiated to bring discussions among the community about the role of standards in technology projects. This will include
The first session under this series in on Akoma Ntoso Standard. The Akoma Ntoso is a open document standard for judicial and legislative documents. Akoma Ntoso representations are in XML format of parliamentary, legislative and judiciary documents. The XML schemas of Akoma Ntoso make explicit the structure and semantic components of the digital documents so as to support the creation of high value information services that deliver the power of ICTs and increase efficiency and accountability in parliamentary, legislative and judiciary contexts. Akoma Ntoso is an initiative of “Africa i-Parliament Action Plan“, a programme of UN/DESA. In this lecture Ashok Hariharan, who was involved in the making of Akoma Ntoso Standard, will walk you through the specification and why courts across the world are using it. Ashok has been working in the Legal / legislative informatics space for 15 years.
Who should participate:
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You can join the zoom call via https://zoom.us/j/98967591591?pwd=Z3hUenFLRURPQk45WUhVdUx4b3F3dz09 or watch it live on youtube https://youtu.be/-ATRuhPe6VQ
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About the organizers: The Fifth Elephant is platform for practitioners working with data (engineering, to application of data science for different use cases) to showcase their work and to collaborate.
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