Africa Parliamentary Information Exchange (APEX)

Exchanging information among African parliaments has become even more important with the creation of the Pan African Parliament (PAP). Africa Parliamentary Information Exchange (APEX - apex.apkn.org) is meant to improve co-ordination between National Parliaments and the Pan Africa Parliament, 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.

APEX provides a platform for the electronic exchange of Pan African related information between parliaments in Africa.

All national parliaments in Africa may partcipate with the degree of involvement decided upon by each parliament. Each parliament is responsible for informing the other parliaments on its activities concerning cross-national initiatives and the recommendations of the Pan African Parliament.

Objectives

• Function as a portal for information concerning substantial and procedural questions with regard to scrutiny in PAP matters by providing suitable tools for exchanging information;
• Facilitate communication and co-operation between the African parliaments by enabling them to freely exchange information;
• Promote best practices between parliaments. 

To do:

Currently online we have a very preliminary prototype apex.apkn.org where we have only available a Parliamentary Directory that contains contact 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 have foreseen 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;

Each Parliament is free to share documents and information to the extend that better suit them but 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.