[okfn-labs] Google Civic Information API

Tue Sep 25 09:56:00 UTC 2012

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Michael Bauer <michael.bauer at okfn.org> wrote:
> Related: why this is important
>
>
> http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/09/20/1210722109.abstract
>
> Wonderful paper by the local institute for complex systems just out
> recently.
>
> Can we use this to argue for open election data worldwide?

"Arguing" for open election information is just a bit like arguing
against cancer, isn't it? - it's one of these battles with no useful
counter-arguments... Still, I guess it needs the full spiel: an
openelections.org page with some basic principles, success stories and
signatories?

Any takers?

- Friedrich

> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 08:30:46PM +0100, Sander van der Waal wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>> > On 24 September 2012 09:54, Friedrich Lindenberg
>> > <friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org> wrote:
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> this looks interesting:
>> >>
>> >> " The Google Civic Information API allows developers to build
>> >> applications that display civic information including polling place,
>> >> early vote location, candidate data, and election official information
>> >> to users. The initial version of the API is geared towards
>> >> election-related information for the United States. Future versions of
>> >> the API may add more types of civic information and expand to other
>> >> countries. "
>> >>
>> >> https://developers.google.com/civic-information/
>> >
>> > Nice.
>> >
>> >> I think NYT and WaPo have just been knighted for doing the same. Do we
>> >> have this in Europe?
>> >
>> > Not that I know of and it would be a nice project :-)
>>
>> There were national elections in the Netherlands 12 September and as
>> the results were
>> coming in this Google website was the one that seemed the most
>> up-to-date one and
>> was most linked to from many news websites:
>>
>> http://www.google.nl/elections/ed/nl/results
>>
>> It seems they have one for France as well:
>>
>> http://www.google.nl/elections/ed/fr
>>
>> and Mexico. The US, Senegal, Brasil and Egypt have been added to the list but no
>> results to show (yet?).
>>
>> I'm not sure if it's the same thing but thought it'd be worth
>> mentioning in any case. :)
>>
>> Sander
>>
>> > Rufus
>> >
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