NewsChallenge: Who Are My Candidates? Fundamental election data, and fundamentally useful voter tools, in six countries.

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Martín Szyszlican

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Mar 19, 2015, 2:33:57 PM3/19/15
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Today is the last day of the Knight NewsChallenge and after a great work by members of the poplus federation we have published our entry, you can read it fully (and applaud it if you like) here:
https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/who-are-my-candidates-fundamental-election-data-and-fundamentally-useful-voter-tools-in-six-countries

I have been pushing for this for the past few months and we finally managed to have a great proposal, I really hope the challenge's judges will think the same.

The stated goal is to provide election information in six countries, and the poplus-related goal is to make yournextmp a truly global tool, with a popit backend and a host of popolo-based tools implemented or improved in each country.
I mean Write-it, Cargografias, Twittelection and even add new tools by making VotaInteligente (a tool from Ciudadano Inteligente in Chile) be able to consume from PopIt.

April 13th is the day we find out weather we made it to the next round, they will pick 50 projects out fo the more than 600 proposals and those will have to provide a more specific budget and timeline.

Thanks to all.

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James McKinney

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Mar 19, 2015, 5:59:43 PM3/19/15
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James McKinney

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Mar 19, 2015, 6:07:31 PM3/19/15
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Just found a few others mentioning Poplus, specific components, or Poplus members:

https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/everyvote-university-increase-voter-turnout-in-student-and-local-elections-by-leveraging-social-media

https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/the-promise-fact-checker-crowd-checking-campaign-promises

https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/yoquierosaber-org-http-yoquierosaber-org-online-platform-that-seeks-to-inform-voters-about-the-proposals-of-argentine-presidential-candidates-engaging-with-them-through-an-interactive-game-and-seeking-to-create-public-debate-about-the-proposals

https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/virtual-electoral-observation

https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/who-do-we-elect-web-platform-with-presidential-candidates-their-personal-and-professional-information-and-main-electoral-programme

Martín Szyszlican

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Mar 19, 2015, 6:11:14 PM3/19/15
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Congreso Interactivo is involved in 7 of them.
The one I mentioned earlier and the following. Some of them are with Poplus partners and other don't mention Poplus explicitly but I think will be benefited by the growth of our ecosystem.






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Steven Clift

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Mar 20, 2015, 11:23:42 AM3/20/15
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Be sure to check out the "its raining websites" from open data on candidates image by Mike Whiteland!

One of my "secret" goals is to see this example encourage more people to join the Poplus collaboration effort. I doubt any other proposals in the bucket have as many partners stepping up to do something together. :-)

This is also an opportunity for other funders to "discover" this idea (or the next Poplus generated collaborative idea) if it crosses their radar _indirectly_. So the more general buzz, sharing, etc. the better.

It appears that visibility is sorted by comments BTW if you click on "Entries" while the main page shows the last to come in on top:
https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries?order=COMMENTS&direction=DESC

Add just ten legit comments/questions/we want this too questions and the idea will be seen by a lot more people.




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Steven Clift

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Mar 20, 2015, 12:41:09 PM3/20/15
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Chris Barr from Knight pointed out in the Hangout we hosted that campaigning for applause didn't really help in the judging process in past challenges so sorting was removed.

That said, if we are looking for great ideas and people that might want to leverage Poplus components to execute their ideas, knowing what the crowd finds popular is very useful information. I've always felt that 90% of the folks making these proposals are not part of the civic tech knowledge exchange eco-system - http://pages.e-democracy.org/List_of_groups - that I track. If you see a proposal that you think can benefit from a look at a Poplus component, leave a comment with that proposal and direct them both the the specific components page on Poplus.org and this group http://bit.ly/poplusgroups

Thanks,
Steve

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James McKinney

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Mar 20, 2015, 12:47:29 PM3/20/15
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