Civil Network OPORA has analyzed how actively parliamentary committees of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of VIII convocation worked.

Are you interested in modern technologies? Do you care about the growth of democracy and think that citizens should be active? Do you keep an eye on innovative projects and want to receive insider information about their creation and functioning? If your answer is “yes”, and you can add some more questions concerning technologies serving the democracy development and participation of the public in this process, you are welcome to visit the Personal Democracy Forum in Ukraine.

On 26 April, an updated Open Parliament Data Portal (opendata.rada.gov.ua) was presented in Kyiv. The resource contains over 110 structured parliament data sets covering legislation, draft laws, plenary sittings, MPs of Ukraine etc. These data may be used to create analytical products and online instruments, which provide accessible information about activities of the parliament.

Thе public call on the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko to urgently register in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine a submission on appointment of new CEC members.

As modern informational technologies develop and public demand on them increases, state authorities, local self-government bodies and executive bodies all over the world have to use them in their work and communication with the public, what increases the quality of administrative decisions

Ukrainian leading non-governmental and expert organizations call on the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko to urgently register in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine a submission on appointment of new CEC members. In autumn 2015, parliamentary factions and groups of MPs submitted their nominees to membership of the CEC. On 16 November 2015, Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine has ruled that inaction of the President of Ukraine, particularly a failure to appoint new members of the CEC, is ill...

It is important and urgent for Ukraine to intensify the preparation of parliamentary election law. The country needs rotations in political elite to secure efficiency of the Verkhovna Rada, authorized to find a solution for the certain highly important social issues. Although the open-list proportional representation system has already been openly discussed for a while by politicians and experts, it hasn't been introduced by the legislation.

Civil Network OPORA has initiated and is monitoring the realization of Work Plan for Implementation of the Declaration on Parliamentary Openness, which was presented in Parliament on 5 February 2016 The organization is realizing a number of projects, aimed to increase the transparency and openness of parliamentary processes and activities of MPs.