# Open Parliament Open Parliament is a digital democracy project with the goal of making the legislative power more transparent, allowing the common citizen to follow what is voted and who voted what with minimum effort. We also want to give them the proper tools, so that they can exercise the legislative activity themselves, voting on the same bills as the official legislators and proposing their own. The initial concept was exposed in this article: http://helderribeiro.net/?p=180 (English version). To follow our progress and get in touch, subscribe to our mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/parlamento-aberto. It's mostly in Portuguese, so you can email helder at gmail dot com for English. http://trac.parlamentoaberto.org/wiki/WikiStartEnglish