Impact
The IPU facilitates parliamentary diplomacy and empowers parliaments and parliamentarians to promote peace, democracy and sustainable development around the world.
This latest edition of the World e-Parliament Report follows up on previous findings and identifies major steps forward in how parliaments are using information and communication technologies (ICT) to engage with citizens. According to the report, ICT can have a transformative effect in making parliaments more transparent and accessible, but warns that much more remains to be done and highlights that low income countries are struggling to devote sufficient resources to the task. Parliaments from 88 countries and 33 civil society organizations contributed to the report’s findings.