[okfn-discuss] okfn-discuss Digest, Vol 114, Issue 10

Fri Mar 20 13:02:18 UTC 2015

Hi Steve
This is a great idea what you guys presented to the News Challenge. But didnt My Society receive a 3 million dollars grabt from Omidyar to work on Poplus and do this type of projects? Or probably this is different. Can you explain a bit more?

Cheers

Miguel Paz

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>   1. What "elections" News Challenge proposals excite you?
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> Please share some links to your proposal or to those you like most.
> 
> Here is one ...
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> Thanks to power of Google Docs and Skype chatter, a collaborative crew from
> six countries worked on this (more below from Martin):
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> Who Are My Candidates?
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> http://bit.ly/6countriesnewschallenge
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> 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
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> 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
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> Start coding:
> https://github.com/mysociety/yournextmp-popit
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> Or start helping with the crowd-sourcing on UK candidates:
> https://yournextmp.com/tasks/
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> More from Martin in Argentina below ...
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> Steven Clift
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> From: "Mart?n Szyszlican" <martinsz at 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" <poplus at googlegroups.com>
> Cc:
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> 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.
> 
> -- 
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> Desarrollo web usable y accesible
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