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Re: visiblepolitics.org

Posted by evan on Feb 01, 2007; 8:43pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/visiblepolitics-org-tp804p810.html

There are a number of groups in the U.S. that have been doing this type
of analysis for a while as they have the same problem down there. Some
are somewhat general while others track by corporation, etc. There's a
new group (am trying to find the name) that is building a site you can
use to trace your congressman's campaign contributions at the same time
as seeing what way he's voted on communications bills, etc.  

On Thu, 2007-01-02 at 15:30 -0500, Hugh McGuire wrote:

> 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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