Re: visiblepolitics.org

Posted by Hugh McGuire on Feb 01, 2007; 8:30pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/visiblepolitics-org-tp804p809.html

the main purpose is to get canadian election information (ie about  
the politicians running in elections) into one an easily accessible  
place, for the purpose of comparison, to decide who to vote for.  
right now you have to spend lots of time fishing around on the net to  
do it. ideally this could include some substantive stuff on specific  
issues (for instance statements about healthcare/environment/net  
neutrality/copyright/afghanistan/ etc etc) but this part could be  
more difficult to manage.

But one main objective would be to get funding info out there: eg who  
funds Bev Oda? etc. this is public info but it is abysmally presented  
by the media, and accessible but very ugly and difficult format from  
the government... and not even linkable if you can believe it.

the wiki/drupal debate should happen elsewhere and not on this thread ;)

h.



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On Feb 1, 2007, at 3:02 PM, Stéphane Zagar wrote:

> Hi Hugh
>
> That's an interesting idea but I have difficulties to see what's  
> the target. I have zillions of ideas about that topic but the "how"  
> remain obscur to me.
>
> Please, no wiki. Drupal why not, I don't know it. I remember that  
> once Boris/Bopuc told me he had an idea for a website architecture  
> that could fit to structure political data/concerns/ideas. I don't  
> know if he did anything with that.
>
> Interesting stuff that I searched recently (and could provide  
> project data) :
> - Election Canada's donor database (list the donor for political  
> parties : amount, names, zip code).
> - The list of lobbyist at Ottawa (3000 people registrered with  
> their clients and the ministers they target)
>
> By the way : I may present a "chronique" at the radio next week  
> (CIBL Montréal) about the use of political data (and CivicAccess).  
> Stay tuned, I'll send another mail if it's confirmed.
>
> Cheers
>
> Steph
>
> On 1/31/07, Hugh McGuire <[hidden email]> wrote: Hi all,
>
> I've been thinking we should try to get an active project going
> within the civicaccess.ca group (and elsewhere). I just registered a
> domain visiblepolitics.org and outlined a project here:
> http://dosemagazine.blogsome.com/2007/01/31/visiblepoliticsorg/
>
> any interest? nothing but an idea and a URL at the moment. if
> interested, pls comment on the site.
>
> Cheers,
> Hugh.
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