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

parliamentary monitoring: nosdeputes.fr

parliamentary monitoring openpolis.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

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