[wdmmg-discuss] Using where does my money goes in Participatory Democracy

[Miguel Prados Rodríguez]

Hi Friedrich,

I think for the local elections, votewithyourtaxes is the exact tool I was
thinking of !!!!

Maybe I can put the past budget of the local city council and compare it
with the expected budget the people wanted for their city, it is such a
powerful tool to show the people they should have the power to decide, it is
real participatory democracy.

I have no programming capacity but I can mess around, I think it is just a
matter of translating the tool and changing the actual budget, giving (of
course) the appropriate credits to the author/s and keeping the "donate"
button for them.

It is the first time in history in Spain that a 100% participatory
democratic party goes to the elections, and it will be an extraordinary
promoting tool, the electoral campaign begins on the 6th of May (in three
days) and last for 15 days, I can have no rest to try to translate the tool
on time.

Yourtopia will be something we definitively will love to use for the
country's general elections, next year

Thanks for your help Friedrich,


Miguel Prados



El 3 de mayo de 2011 02:14, Friedrich Lindenberg <
friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org> escribió:

> Hi Miguel,
>
> I think it would be very interesting to have some way of creating
> shadow budgets in OpenSpending. I just met Sean (CC), the creator of
> http://votewithyourtaxes.com/ at TransparencyCamp. His site allows you
> to propose an alternative priorization of the items of the US budget
> and then contrast that with the actual decision, generating a letter
> that you can send to your representatives. Given the data in
> OpenSpending and the voting work we've done in YourTopia
> (yourtopia.net), it should be simple to generalize such a
> functionality to support different kinds of budgets and multiple
> levels of detail.
>
> Is that similar to what you're looking for? Do you have any
> programming capacity to support the implementation of such an idea?
>
> - Friedrich
>
> 2011/5/2 Miguel Prados Rodríguez <miguelpradosrodriguez at gmail.com>:
> > Hi,
> > I am Miguel from Spain, I have created a political party, "participatory
> > democracy" that will bid for the local elections in many cities in Spain.
> > I've found this application very useful and I wonder whether it could be
> > used by citizens to actually "choose" the distribution they want for the
> > city budget, making participatory democracy a reality.
> > Regards, Miguel
> >
> >
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