Re: [liberationtech] What elections News Challenge proposals excite you?
As I cross-posted this across a number of communities with different interests, I thought I'd share back what people shared. ** NCDD-Discussion: Tim Bonnemann : I'm tracking proposals in these areas: * Collaborative fact checking * Civil civic discourse and bridging partisan divides * Policy making and issue-based learning * Community engagement capacity building and infrastructure Here's my growing list: http://www.intellitics.com/blog/2015/03/19/knight-news-challenge-entries-related-to-voter-information-and-policy-making/ Andrew Rockway: Here's the Jefferson Center's: https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/up-for-debate-ohio-empowering-voters-and-media-through-civil-substantive-political-engagement-in-the-nation-s-most-contested-electoral-battleground The project focuses on using citizen deliberation and dialogue to help direct media coverage of the campaign/election. Angela Andrews: I’m new to the NCDD listserv, but since we’re highlighting News Challenge proposals, I wanted to bring your attention to the “Voter Information; The Legislative Role” proposal that was submitted by my colleague’s in NCSL’s Election Program. See the proposal here: https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/voter-information-the-legislative-role Tyrone Reitman: It was a pretty incredible outpouring of ideas today, closing in at almost 1000 (600 or so just today). Here's Healthy Democracy's proposal to integrate online engagement with in-person deliberation via the Citizens' Initiative Review to inform voters about ballot measures. https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/closing-the-ballot-measure-information-gap-with-citizens-initiative-review-online-mobile-engagement ** Brigade: Derek Eder: 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. John C. Osborn: Code for America submission https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/open-disclosure-california-connecting-people-to-their-local-campaign-finance-data ** LibertationTech: Joe Hall: (Disclosure: I'm on the board of CVF) This is one I hope you'll all check out (although California-centric) that is a collaboration between the California Voter Foundation, Pew's Center on the States, and Google's Voter Information Project: A Unified Voter Guide for California Voters, Online https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/a-unified-voter-guide-for-california-voters-online ** Poplus: (join in btw: http://bit.ly/poplustech James McKinney: Awesome! Any other entries people are excited about? I've noticed: https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/politician-reconciliation-service https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/politifilter-understanding-what-the-world-s-politicians-are-saying-about-your-issues https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/councilmatic-versions-of-opencongress-for-city-governments https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/crowd-sourced-calendar-of-independent-election-events More from James: Just found a few others mentioning Poplus, specific components, or Poplus members: https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/everyvote-university-increase-voter-turnout-in-student-and-local-elections-by-leveraging-social-media https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/the-promise-fact-checker-crowd-checking-campaign-promises https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/yoquierosaber-org-http-yoquierosaber-org-online-platform-that-seeks-to-inform-voters-about-the-proposals-of-argentine-presidential-candidates-engaging-with-them-through-an-interactive-game-and-seeking-to-create-public-debate-about-the-proposals https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/virtual-electoral-observation https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/who-do-we-elect-web-platform-with-presidential-candidates-their-personal-and-professional-information-and-main-electoral-programme Martín Szyszlican: Congreso Interactivo is involved in 7 of them. The one I mentioned earlier and the following. Some of them are with Poplus partners and other don't mention Poplus explicitly but I think will be benefited by the growth of our ecosystem. https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/yoquierosaber-org-http-yoquierosaber-org-online-platform-that-seeks-to-inform-voters-about-the-proposals-of-argentine-presidential-candidates-engaging-with-them-through-an-interactive-game-and-seeking-to-create-public-debate-about-the-proposals
[liberationtech] What elections News Challenge proposals excite you?
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=emailutm_source=footer . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
