We just proposed a Politician Reconciliation Service that will act as a canonical source of identifiers in order to enable others to research and aggregate all the data ever created about a politician.
https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/politician-reconciliation-service Pretty excited for DataMade to partner with Sunlight Foundation & Open Elections on this one. On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Steven Clift <cl...@e-democracy.org> wrote: > Please share some links to your proposal or to those you like most. > > Here is one ... > > Thanks to power of Google Docs and Skype chatter, a collaborative crew > from six countries worked on this (more below from Martin): > > Who Are My Candidates? > > http://bit.ly/6countriesnewschallenge > > If you like the idea of leveraging the UK's http://YourNextMP.com code in > your city, state or nation to generate fundamental open data on > candidates, join the Poplus.org online group: http://bit.ly/poplusgroup > > Also, if you really want to tune in or help now, join the UK Democracy > Club's online group: > https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/democracy-club > > Start coding: > https://github.com/mysociety/yournextmp-popit > > Or start helping with the crowd-sourcing on UK candidates: > https://yournextmp.com/tasks/ > > More from Martin in Argentina below ... > > Steven Clift > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Martín Szyszlican" <marti...@gmail.com> > Date: Mar 19, 2015 1:33 PM > Subject: [Poplus] NewsChallenge: Who Are My Candidates? Fundamental > election data, and fundamentally useful voter tools, in six countries. > To: "poplus" <pop...@googlegroups.com> > Cc: > > Today is the last day of the Knight NewsChallenge and after a great work > by members of the poplus federation we have published our entry, you can > read it fully (and applaud it if you like) here: > > https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/who-are-my-candidates-fundamental-election-data-and-fundamentally-useful-voter-tools-in-six-countries > > I have been pushing for this for the past few months and we finally > managed to have a great proposal, I really hope the challenge's judges will > think the same. > > The stated goal is to provide election information in six countries, and > the poplus-related goal is to make yournextmp a truly global tool, with a > popit backend and a host of popolo-based tools implemented or improved in > each country. > I mean Write-it, Cargografias, Twittelection and even add new tools by > making VotaInteligente (a tool from Ciudadano Inteligente in Chile) be able > to consume from PopIt. > > April 13th is the day we find out weather we made it to the next round, > they will pick 50 projects out fo the more than 600 proposals and those > will have to provide a more specific budget and timeline. > > Thanks to all. > > -- > *Martín Szyszlican* > Desarrollo web usable y accesible > martinszyszlican.com > > > > -- > Poplus.org - Get involved: http://poplus.org/get-involved > IRC: #poplus https://webchat.freenode.net > Docs: http://bit.ly/poplusdrive > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Poplus - Collaborative Civic Coding" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to poplus+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to pop...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/poplus. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/poplus/CAKTxXVXCuKn0L2s%2BXOp4h%2BWziCGvRs50sU_7yaHvpi2tkWiVrw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/poplus/CAKTxXVXCuKn0L2s%2BXOp4h%2BWziCGvRs50sU_7yaHvpi2tkWiVrw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > If you are having trouble unsubscribing via > brigade+unsubscr...@codeforamerica.org, please email > brie...@codeforamerica.org. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Code for America Brigade" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to brigade+unsubscr...@codeforamerica.org. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/a/codeforamerica.org/group/brigade/. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/codeforamerica.org/d/msgid/brigade/CAO9TZ0XFfk%3DiYHK6ueJ834w7LCOsXxjRBU6Zv66LY1H_T%3DDs9w%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/a/codeforamerica.org/d/msgid/brigade/CAO9TZ0XFfk%3DiYHK6ueJ834w7LCOsXxjRBU6Zv66LY1H_T%3DDs9w%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/a/codeforamerica.org/d/optout. > -- Derek Eder @derekeder <https://twitter.com/#!/derekeder> derek.e...@gmail.com derekeder.com
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