Africa Parliamentary Information Exchange

Exchanging information among African parliaments has become even more important with the creation of the Pan African Parliament (PAP). Africa Parliamentary Information Exchange (APEX) is a tool meant to facilitate the flow of information among national parliaments and to expand the information base available to national parliaments with regard to cross-national initiatives, specific PAP and AU issues.

This is a very preliminary prototype where we have only available Parliamentary Directory that contains contacts information of all the African parliaments. The current basic information could be enriched with information about the political and administrative leadership of each institution.

We are the about to add the possibility to allow each parliament to add information on:

• Parliamentary Directory;
• Bills on floor and their progresses;
• Resolutions presented and debated and the outcome of them;
• Committees activities;
• Inter-parliamentary initiatives;

Parliaments that will decide to be part of APEX will be responsible for the uploading and update of their information and news from their parliaments. Each institution is free to share documents and information to the extend that better suit them. Each parliament is encouraged to inform the other parliaments of its activities and more specifically the ones concerning cross-national initiatives and the resolutions/activities of the Pan African Parliament.

The system will allow to browse information by;

• country;
• topic;
• date;

There will also be the possibility to subscribe to a newsletter or RSS to be updated on the latest additions.