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

Fri Mar 20 14:45:06 UTC 2015

I can't speak for mySociety, but as I understand it dedicated funding
for the Poplus network itself goes through this month. As folks really
seem to love this form of collaboration, I see mySociety, FCI,
E-Democracy, etc. all collaborating and I would like to see some
dedicated funding go into the network itself ... but that will need to
come from new sources.

As one of the collaborators on the proposal to bring this to
Minnesota, as a very small NGO, we would not be able to do this
without funding. So, if this "wins" it would bring YourNextMP code and
the WORK required to deploy it to places where no funding exists to
make it happen. If mySociety is a back office for generating much of
the tech, the other side is creating a crowd-sourcing community and
developing media partnerships in Argentina, Guatemala, Minnesota, etc.
through grass roots local partners.

I hope this is helpful.
Steven Clift  -  Executive Director, E-Democracy

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On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 8:02 AM, Miguel Paz <miguel at poderopedia.com> wrote:
> 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?
>>      (Steven Clift)
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>> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 15:24:50 -0500
>> From: Steven Clift <clift at e-democracy.org>
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>> 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: "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:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> *Mart?n Szyszlican*
>> Desarrollo web usable y accesible
>> martinszyszlican.com
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