Sym Roe

@SymRoe

Democracy Club

@democlub

Democracy Club:

Improving the democratic processes through digital tools, micro-volunteering and collaboration with like-minded organisations.

Starting small Tempting to get in to reform or new Digital ways of working.

We have a long way to go before we're ready for that.

About General Elections Run by councils and the Electoral Commission & Parliament

No single source of information

PDFs everywhere.

Finding candidates

Statement of Nominations

YourNextMP.com

YourNextMP.com

Users 4.4 million page views

174,000 sessions on election day

Powering tools by Google, Friends of the Earth, The Telegraph, 38 Degrees, BBC and many more we don't know about.

Google tool

Users

Reuse CSV snapshot every 15 minutes

Popolo formatted API

Build on mySociety's PopIt

Taking YNMP to Argentina in November

Other Projects MeetYourNextMP.com Meet your candidates

cv.democracyclub.org.uk Read your candidates' CVs

ElectionMentions.com Press about your candidates or area

ElectionLeaflets.org Share your Election Leaflets

Numbers 4,000 candidates

13,000 election leaflets

690 CVs uploaded

1,000 public debates

75,600 press mentions

Polling Stations Same as candidate data fragmented.

Can't Google "Where do I vote"

No one can link you to a tool the action isn't a URL, unlike registering to vote.

FOI only got us 15% of polling stations

[[controversial statement]] Open data isn't enough.

Start with user needs and use open data as one tool

450 'open' data sets on DGU won't help any voters

AFIK no one (outside gov) has cracked the fragmented data problem really well yet.

Democracy isn't about elections Do Something Dashboard: What can I do right now?

Open consultations

Tools like FixMyStreet

Council meetings

etc

Don't make the publicunderstand the country's org chartIn order to interact with it

Sym Roe

@SymRoe

Democracy Club

@democlub