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How can open data improve people’s access to information on political candidates and democratic processes? Find out at this week’s ODI Fridays, lunchtime lecture.Democracy Club is a group of volunteers that aims to increase the quantity, quality and accessibility of information on election candidates, politicians and democratic processes through digital tools, microvolunteering and collaboration with like-minded organisations.Web developer & designer Sym Roe talked about the story behind YourNextMP, who reused the data, as well as the other Democracy Club projects and where they’re heading in the future.
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Sym Roe
@SymRoe
Democracy Club
@democlub
Democracy Club:
Improving the democratic processes through digital tools, micro-volunteering and collaboration with like-minded organisations.
Starting small Tempting to get in to reform or new Digital ways of working.
We have a long way to go before we're ready for that.
About General Elections Run by councils and the Electoral Commission & Parliament
No single source of information
PDFs everywhere.
Finding candidates
Statement of Nominations
YourNextMP.com
YourNextMP.com
Users 4.4 million page views
174,000 sessions on election day
Powering tools by Google, Friends of the Earth, The Telegraph, 38 Degrees, BBC and many more we don't know about.
Google tool
Users
Reuse CSV snapshot every 15 minutes
Popolo formatted API
Build on mySociety's PopIt
Taking YNMP to Argentina in November
Other Projects MeetYourNextMP.com Meet your candidates
cv.democracyclub.org.uk Read your candidates' CVs
ElectionMentions.com Press about your candidates or area
ElectionLeaflets.org Share your Election Leaflets
Numbers 4,000 candidates
13,000 election leaflets
690 CVs uploaded
1,000 public debates
75,600 press mentions
Polling Stations Same as candidate data fragmented.
Can't Google "Where do I vote"
No one can link you to a tool the action isn't a URL, unlike registering to vote.
FOI only got us 15% of polling stations
[[controversial statement]] Open data isn't enough.
Start with user needs and use open data as one tool
450 'open' data sets on DGU won't help any voters
AFIK no one (outside gov) has cracked the fragmented data problem really well yet.
Democracy isn't about elections Do Something Dashboard: What can I do right now?
Open consultations
Tools like FixMyStreet
Council meetings
etc
Don't make the publicunderstand the country's org chartIn order to interact with it
Sym Roe
@SymRoe
Democracy Club
@democlub