Government organizations today aspire to have access to sophisticated internet-based systems that deliver new ways to link and efficiently draft and share documents, increase public access, and free up drafters and IT teams from vendor lock-in. The path to achieving these goals will be much shorter once common data standards are widely accepted and used to digitally produce, classify and share parliamentary and legislative documents. At Xcential, we strongly support the worldwide adoption of the Akoma Ntoso standards for greater data transparency, improved efficiency and accuracy and reduced cost in the drafting process.