120706 holder de ord open legislative data
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Bringer politikken til folket
Kristofer Rees, Head of Political Analysis [email protected] Ingrid Ødegaard, Head of Digital Strategy [email protected]
Open Legislative Data, 06.07.2012 Paris
Who are we?
! Based in Oslo, Norway
! Non-profit
! About 20 volunteers
! We connect voting data and electoral promises
! Prototype of site is live at http://beta.holderdeord.no
! We’ve won an advertising campaign worth €3 mill. – to be run prior to elections 2013! J
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How does democracy work?
Get elected
Make laws/ Pass policies
Accountability?
Campaign promises
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How does democracy work?
Get elected
Make laws/ Pass policies
Accountability!
Campaign promises
Open data = Transparency
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The problem
! Data needs to be accurate and correct
! Verifiable and methodologically sound
Our model needs to be both accurate and accessible.
! Present data in a way that people can relate to
! Make political processes easier to understand
Accuracy Accessiblity +
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Our solution – a topic-based model
The war in Afghanistan
Property tax
Wage regula;ons
”See what poli,cians voted and promised on topics that are important to you!”
! Based on these topics, we collect related votes and promises and present them on the same page.
! The viewer can now compare votes to the promises and decide if the politician has done what he or she promised.
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How does our model work?
Topic: The war in Afghanistan
Promises related to ”the war in afghanistan”
Votes related to ”the war in afghanistan”
Created by us
Data
What needs to be voted to be in favor of topic. Posi;on
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Topic page
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How do we create topics?
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How to categorize promises
1. Collect promises
2. Make qualitative judgements:
– Is the promise general or specific?
– Assign relevant categories to the promise
3. Register source
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Examples of promises
NB: Transla;on by Google Translate, not accurate…
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Challenges and lessons learnt
! Making sense of intricacies in the parliamentary system
! Defining topics
! Processing incoming votes
! Technical architecture
! Finding out what triggers people
! Get input for stakeholders
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A call for collaboration!
! We are eager to discuss and share experiences and best practices
! Wiki: https://holderdeord.atlassian.net/wiki/
! https://github.com/holderdeord/
! http://beta.holderdeord.no