I will submit it to the mysociety site so this might be redundant, but in case anyone's curious here's the basic idea.
(It could go on Wikipedia if it's possible to format this on there. I have never edited on Wiki so I don't know) This is what I'm imagining: I have drawn a flow chart for my work, though I have yet to check it so I am not attaching the whole thing, but here's a snippet. The idea would be you could click on each box and it would take you to an info site that was much better organised than the parliament.uk site (though with a link to the relevant site on there) and would have tabs like on theyworkforyou.com where you could click "Costs/Budget" and there would be a table that you could help fill in if you were so inclined (hence the Wiki element). If you did want to add information, you would have to upload some evidence backing it up, eg FOI letter, table from a parliament website. It would probably have to be moderated. It would be ideal if it were also possible to colour-code it (here, green means directly elected, red means an unelected committee or official, blue means a bureaucratic body or document). -Juliet On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Francis Irving <[email protected]>wrote: > I'd highly recommend doing this in Wikipedia - it seems the ideal > place to me, and already has a lot of the information. Can you put the > various bodies you've researched in there? > > I often use Wikipedia when checking name changes of quangos and the > like for WhatDoTheyKnow. > > Speaking of which, WhatDoTheyKnow itself has now a database of 2843 > public authorities (with their FOI email addresses, and home pages) > which is quite a comprehensive list compared to many. > > Francis > > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 09:55:51AM +0100, Juliet Samuel wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This might already exist (if so, please let me know so that I can use > it!) > > but I was thinking it would be good to build a site that maps out all the > > different committees and administrative bodies of government. The reason > I > > thought of this is that I'm currently doing research on how MPs' expenses > > are administered, and there are about 8 different bodies that are somehow > > involved in various capacities. The Parliament website gives you no > > information about how they are related and how they interact. I think I > have > > now roughly worked this out and it seems there should be a way to make > that > > public, a site where all the absurd almost Orwellian name changes of > > committees are kept track of and things are up to date so that people can > > just look at it to work out what part of government is responsible for > > what. At the moment so many areas are just an opaque mess of > bodies.e.g., > > how many articles on expenses have you read that just refer to the > > incredibly vague "House of Commons authorities" instead of the actual > people > > or committee responsible. > > > > I don't have any programming skills but would be willing to help gather > > information if someone has the time and inclination to do the more > technical > > stuff. I don't know exactly how it should look but maybe something like > each > > authority or organization should be a page with a big flow chart and you > can > > click on each governmental body's box to get more information on it. > > > > -Juliet > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list [email protected] > > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > > > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public >
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