United by ‘hackers’ spirit’, participants at a Brussels hackathon bring the actions of MEPs under scrutiny for the first time […]
“There is a huge gap between the power of the European parliament and citizens’ knowledge of it. It frightens me. At the national level, we hold politicians to account. But the only people holding MEPs accountable are in the Brussels bubble. Can you name your MEP? Can you name a single MEP?” […]
Ronny Patz, who works for Transparency International, has lead the project over the weekend. “Why do we, as citizens and volunteers, have to come and spend the entire weekend in Brussels liberating handwritten Lithuanian and Greek just to hold our representatives to account? » he says. « The information goes through the hands of the parliament’s adminstrators – dumping PDFs on a website is not open government.” […]
[note: LQDN was there, with the Memopol project]
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/28/hackers-hold-the-european-parliament-to-account?CMP=twt_gu