Sources
Europarl, a short article on this Conference : http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/public/story_page/040-42863-329-11-48-906-20081120STO42708-2008-24-11-2008/default_en.htm
World e-Parliament Conference 2008 - Background Document (English, French, Spanish)
World e-Parliament Conference 2008 - A proposal for a revised set of
guidelines for Parliamentary Websites (English, French, Spanish)
Short comments on the guidelines for Parliamentary Websites
The translation tools or tools for assisted translation are very important for many parliaments. See RM&T and Multilingualism. The whole chain authoring-legal_proofreading-translating-publishing is a mandatory domain to improve the value for money of multilingual parliamentarian web sites.
Re-usability of the documents, interoperable “public sector information” in an automatic and accurated way are meaningful for co operation between european and national parliaments but also for political NGOs. See www.OpenCongress.org
Web metrics, quality of the website Internet service from a user centric point of view are elements of transparency and accountability policies. Benchmarkings are fashionable for the parliamentarian websites. See UK NAO
Two way communication tools are not only email. New methods of interaction between citizens and institutions must be tested. See eGOV AU and Debates abouteDemocracy
TV and webcasting are also possible by some existing tools like YouTube, Dailymotion ... See EuroparlTV is here
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