1. Wifi access Network: OLD Login: prince password: 06PVzl9b #OLDP Live streaming: http://bit.ly/ODLParis

3. 3 worlds far away so close 1.Academia 2.Webdeveloppers & hacktivists 3.Parliaments

4. our cognition of what a legislature is depends of the available instruments of communication

5. 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 siècle BNF, Estampes et photographie, fonds Gaignières 1325, RES OB-10-FOL

10. parliamentary monitoring: nosdeputes.fr

11. parliamentary monitoring openpolis.it

12. roll-call analysis: votewatch.eu

13. law tracking: lafabriquedelaloi.fr

15. 2 questions 1.Are ICT (information and communications technologies) a chance for legislatures? 2.What is the goodness of fit between legislatures & ICT?

16. 1. ICT are challenging legislatures A threat for the law-making function A chance for the democratic control by citizens

17. A threat for the law-making function Parliaments are both judges & juries The inefficiency of legislation –Sovereignty –Stability

18. 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

19. number of written questions in West European legislatures (100 = 1990)

20. 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…

21. 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

22. 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