Open Parliament - sign the petition...

[Theodoros G. Karounos]

We believe that the current situation, where the European Parliament's
ICT runs on proprietary software that is not interoperable with that
of other vendors, where therefore citizens and stakeholder groups
wishing to participate in the legislative process are forced to use
the products of a single company, is in conflict with the first
article of Chapter 1 in the Treaty of the European Union. An example
of this is the live Web streaming from the European Parliament's
plenary sessions – aimed at improving communication with citizens and
insight into democratic processes – which will only work with Windows
Media Player
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http://www.openparliament.eu/



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http://karounos.gr/blog/