Sorry; I just realised the attachment was larger than I thought. Tried to cancel it but I was too late; I hope it doesn't clog anyone's inbox.
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Juliet Samuel <[email protected]> wrote: > I will submit it to the mysociety site so this might be redundant, but in > case anyone's curious here's the basic idea. > > (It could go on Wikipedia if it's possible to format this on there. I have > never edited on Wiki so I don't know) > This is what I'm imagining: I have drawn a flow chart for my work, though I > have yet to check it so I am not attaching the whole thing, but here's a > snippet. > > The idea would be you could click on each box and it would take you to an > info site that was much better organised than the parliament.uk site > (though with a link to the relevant site on there) and would have tabs like > on theyworkforyou.com where you could click "Costs/Budget" and there would > be a table that you could help fill in if you were so inclined (hence the > Wiki element). If you did want to add information, you would have to upload > some evidence backing it up, eg FOI letter, table from a parliament website. > It would probably have to be moderated. > > It would be ideal if it were also possible to colour-code it (here, green > means directly elected, red means an unelected committee or official, blue > means a bureaucratic body or document). > > -Juliet > > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Francis Irving <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I'd highly recommend doing this in Wikipedia - it seems the ideal >> place to me, and already has a lot of the information. Can you put the >> various bodies you've researched in there? >> >> I often use Wikipedia when checking name changes of quangos and the >> like for WhatDoTheyKnow. >> >> Speaking of which, WhatDoTheyKnow itself has now a database of 2843 >> public authorities (with their FOI email addresses, and home pages) >> which is quite a comprehensive list compared to many. >> >> Francis >> >> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 09:55:51AM +0100, Juliet Samuel wrote: >> > 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. >> > >> > I don't have any programming skills but would be willing to help gather >> > information if someone has the time and inclination to do the more >> technical >> > stuff. I don't know exactly how it should look but maybe something like >> each >> > authority or organization should be a page with a big flow chart and you >> can >> > click on each governmental body's box to get more information on it. >> > >> > -Juliet >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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 >> > >
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