What Norway Is Deliberating Screensaver
The What Norway Is Deliberating screensaver shows cases before the Storting, read live and key-less from its open data export. It's free, runs in your browser, and ESC exits.
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How the What Norway Is Deliberating screensaver works
The saver reads the source described above and draws it on a canvas — no account, no tracking.
Cases before the Storting, read live and key-less from its open data export. Everything is assigned to a standing committee, and which committee holds a case says more than its title: finance and energy are different kinds of politics.
It refreshes on a schedule, so what you see stays current.
Colours and any options can be changed in settings; nothing is stored beyond your own browser.
How a case moves through the Storting
The Storting is Norway’s parliament, with 169 members elected every four years by proportional representation. The matters it handles are called saker, or cases. They include bills, the national budget, white papers from the government known as stortingsmeldinger, and proposals put forward by members themselves.
Every representative except the President sits on at least one of the Storting’s twelve standing committees, which are organised by subject, such as finance or energy and the environment. A committee examines the cases in its area and makes a recommendation to the full chamber. For that reason the committee attached to a case is a useful clue to its subject.
The records come from the Storting’s open data service and are mostly in Norwegian, with titles and case types kept in the original language. A case appearing here is not necessarily controversial or likely to pass, since the list includes routine matters as well as high-profile ones. The status shown reflects the official record at the time of the last refresh.
A worked example
Cases before the Storting, read live and key-less from its open data export. Everything is assigned to a standing committee, and which committee holds a case says more than its title: finance and energy are different kinds of politics.
Settings & tips
- Accent and Background recolour the display.
- Every value on screen comes from the live source — nothing is simulated.
- Press ESC to leave fullscreen.
Frequently asked questions
- Is this real data?
- Yes — it comes from the source named on this page and is refreshed on a schedule.
- Is a key needed?
- No. This source is fully key-less.
- Is it free?
- Yes, and it runs entirely in your browser.
- What do the committees do?
- The Storting has twelve standing committees organised by subject. Each examines the cases in its area and makes a recommendation to the full chamber.
- Why is the text in Norwegian?
- The data is published in the parliament’s own language, and the saver shows titles and case types as they appear instead of translating them.