Tim za socijalno uključivanje i smanjenje siromaštva

On February 5, the Centre for Research, Transparency and Accountability – CRTA celebrated the fifth anniversary of the Open Parliament Initiative, and on this occasion, a new website was presented. This new website will enable citizens to follow what happens in the Parliament more actively. A special improvement is the introduction of law summaries which will provide a simple and understandable way for everyone to learn about draft laws, and also comment on and vote for key changes introduced by the law.

Raša Nedeljković, CRTA Programme Director, presented the new website www.otvoreniparlament.rs. Among other improvements, there is the automatic extraction of statistical data.

According to the data collected by CRTA, in five years the Open Parliament have followed the work of three Parliament sessions, more than 350 statistical and analytical reports on the work of the Parliament, 681 laws, as well as 4,244 amendments of laws have been published.

Also published were 44 videos, 11 surveys, and there were more than 1,200 participants of the Open Parliament educational programmes.

The “Week of Parliamentarism” event was first organised in 2015 in partnership with the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia. Furthermore, there were 175 other events and activities, 8,500 citizens participated directly, and there were 250 media coverages of these events.

Source: rs.n1info.com