PRESENTATION MEDIA

• TV News (March 17, 2017), TV Legislativa, Asamblea Legislativa de Costa Rica (in Spanish)
• Radio interview featuring Senator Marcela Guerra (México), President of ParlAmericas, and Senator Hernán Larraín (Chile), President of the Open Parliament Network (OPN) (March 17, 2017), Matices, Radio Monumental (in Spanish)
• TV News (March 16, 2017), TV Legislativa, Asamblea Legislativa de Costa Rica (in Spanish)
• Inauguration (March 16, 2017), TV Legislativa, Asamblea Legislativa de Costa Rica (in Spanish)
• TV News (March 13, 2017), TV Legislativa, Asamblea Legislativa de Costa Rica (in Spanish)
• Press release (March 13, 2017) (in Spanish)

DECLARATION OF SOLIDARITY WITH PERU PRESENTATIONS

• New horizons for citizen participation, Scott Hubli, National Democratic Institute (in Spanish)
• The role of CSOs in an Open Parliament, Agustina de Luca, Fundación Directorio Legislativo
• A step forward towards transparency, Senator Mauricio Lizcano (Colombia), President of the Senate
• Incorporating Gender Perspective in the Costa Rican Parliament, Haydee Hernandez Perez, Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica
• Leveraging Citizen Engagement: Guiding Questions for Incorporating Citizen Engagement into the Legislative Framework, GovLab, Yale Open Government & Open Data Governance Innovation Clinic

RESOURCES

• Road Map Towards Legislative Openness, ParlAmericas
• What is Open Parliament?, ParlAmericas
• Best practices for the use of social networks by parliamentarians, ParlAmericas
• OGP Participation and Co-creation Standards
• Legislative Engagement in the Open Government Partnership
• Legislative Transparency Index 2016, The Latin America Network for Legislative Transparency (LALT) (in Spanish)
• World e-Parliament Report 2016, Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
• Model Inter-American Law on Access to Public Information, Organization of American States (OAS)
• Inter-American Program on Access to Public Information, Organization of American States (OAS)
• Legislative action plans:
  • Chile (in Spanish)
  • Colombia (in Spanish)
  • Costa Rica (in Spanish)
  • Guatemala (in Spanish)
  • Paraguay (in Spanish)

INAUGURAL SPEECHES

• Member of the Legislative Assembly José Alfaro Jiménez (Costa Rica), Interim President of the Legislative Assembly (in Spanish)
• Senator Marcela Guerra (México), President of ParlAmericas (in Spanish)

During the 2nd Gathering of the OPN, the four vice-presidents of the OPN executive committee were elected:

• North America: Member of Parliament Marcela González Salas (Mexico)
• Central America: Member of the Legislative Assembly Karla Prendas (Costa Rica)
• South America: Senator Mauricio Lizcano (Colombia), President of the Senate
• Caribbean: Senator Saphire Longmore (Jamaica)