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Prepared for International Seminar on Electoral Boundaries Delimitation

Instituto Federal ElectoralMexico City, November 2012

PPR-MéxicoPlataforma Pública de Redistritación México

Por

Micah Altman, MIT, Brookings Institución Michael McDonald, GMU, Brookings InstituciónAlejandro Trelles, Universito of PittsburghEric Magar, ITAM

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Where has DistrictBuilder been used?

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Used in 10 states

More than 1000 legal plans created by the public

Thousands of public participants

Millions of viewers

How has DistrictBuilder been used?

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For Transparency: Dissemination Public understanding Evaluation/comparison

For Education: Staff training Classroom teaching Student competitions

For Participation: Integrated into official decision

process Non-partisan public organizations

For Election Administration:

Internal collaboration/analysis sharing

Support for commission

What principles govern the project?

All redistricting plans should include sufficient information such that the public can verify, reproduce, and

evaluate a plan.

Open SourceOpen Data

Open Algorithms

See: Principles for Transparency and Public Participation in Redistricting http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2010/0617_redistricting_statement.aspx

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Builds on Best-of-Class Open Source Software

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(Also Award Winning)

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Named one of the top ten political innovations of 2011by Politico

Winner of 2012 data innovation award, for data used for social impact, by Strata

Winner of 2012 award for outstanding software development,by American Political Science Association

Thanks to Our SponsorsFunded in part by

The Sloan FoundationJoyce FoundationAmazon CorporationJudy Ford Watson Center at Christopher

Newport Univ.

Engineering and implementation services by:Azavea

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Software Availablewww.districtbuilder.org

More Information atwww.publicmapping.org