Romanian Parliament. Adrian Moraru, deputy director with IPP said in an interview with mySociety explains how they have had to obtain much of their Parliamentary data by court action. The site was first launched in 2006 and redesigned in 2010. Median Research Centre launched Parlament Transparent in November 2014. This is a parliamentary monitoring tool focused on the Romanian Chamber of Deputies and organised around four dimensions: Members of the Chamber and their work, Public Policy domains, Parliamentary Party Groups (PPGs) and Data Export. The application tracks the policy specialisation and the engagement in local interest representation of each MP and enables users to compare the activity of their representatives (one-to-one and one-to-all). Moreover, Parlament Transparent allows specialised NGOs and ordinary citizens to keep track of the latest legislative developments in 15 policy areas. Other important features are automatically tracking laws adopted without debate or vote and reporting all cases of party switching. A qualitative feature of the application refers to presenting and explaining the most controversial bills and votes taken in the current legislative cycle. South Africa Parliamentary Monitoring Group hosts news, documents, speeches, statements and press releases from committees in the South African parliament. United Kingdom The situation in the United Kingdom is very active, with several of the major volunteer projects run by mySociety. The official UK Parliament website provides transcripts of the Parliamentary debates and votes in plain text form, and these are parsed by a project known as parlparse into a timeline of publicly available structured XML files. These files provide the data for TheyWorkForYou, which hosts the speeches in a user friendly form and creates email alerts and rss feeds, and Public Whip, which keeps track of the votes and allows for an expression of their meanings in plain English. Independently of this, the academic Philip Cowley at Nottingham University researches specifically into how MPs vote through his Revolts website and publications. Commercial companies DeHavilland, Dods, Randall's Monitoring and many traditional public affairs consultancies offer paid for parliamentary monitoring and wider research and intelligence services. Sweden Citizen Intelligence Agency displays data, metadata and charts for Swedish parliament and government. United Nations The website Undemocracy gives hyperlinked access to transcripts of the General Assembly and Security Council of the United Nations, with parsed voting records. Several agencies within the United Nations have initiated projects to dig- italize their legislative systems by developing application profiles of