Hi Juliet, If you have an idea you'd like us to build, please submit it to the call for proposals we're currently running. The URL is here:
http://www.mysociety.org/2009/08/06/mysociety-call-for-proposals-2009/ thanks, Tom 2009/9/1 Francis Davey <[email protected]>: > 2009/8/28 Juliet Samuel <[email protected]>: >> Hi, >> >> This might already exist (if so, please let me know so that I can use it!) >> but I was thinking it would be good to build a site that maps out all the >> different committees and administrative bodies of government. The reason I >> thought of this is that I'm currently doing research on how MPs' expenses >> are administered, and there are about 8 different bodies that are somehow >> involved in various capacities. The Parliament website gives you no >> information about how they are related and how they interact. I think I have >> now roughly worked this out and it seems there should be a way to make that >> public, a site where all the absurd almost Orwellian name changes of >> committees are kept track of and things are up to date so that people can >> just look at it to work out what part of government is responsible for >> what. At the moment so many areas are just an opaque mess of bodies.e.g., >> how many articles on expenses have you read that just refer to the >> incredibly vague "House of Commons authorities" instead of the actual people >> or committee responsible. >> > > What would such a thing look like? What sort of diagram/schematic > would you find helpful? It might be useful for you to mock something > up (graphically, even by hand) to show what you'd like to see. I agree > its hard to find your way around, but its not entirely clear what the > right answer is. > > -- > Francis Davey > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
