Hi Anupam, I'm agree with your idea to develop such type of website which will show the real picture of the todays political parties and political individuals.
Also, I appreciate you decision about the Open Source uses on this project. It's be great if you please jot down your understanding on this project in a document for further discussion. Let's start this. Thank you, Sanjeev On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Anupam Jain <[email protected]> wrote: > Everyone, > > This may not be completely off-topic - true freedom depends on individuals > making well informed decisions. > > I have decided to start a website which will provide a sort of score card > for all political parties and political individuals based on an objective > and fact based criteria. Amongst other things I plan to document and > permanently store all statements/decisions/actions by public figures. I > feel > it's needed and has the potential to provide a deterrent to political > parties from relying on the fickle memories of the Indian public. > > Of course, everything including the source code will be either under a Free > software license or in public domain. > > The primary goal is to make the database as comprehensive as possible while > retaining objectivity and balanced opinions. I feel (perhaps somewhat > counter-intuitively) that both these aims can be achieved by making it > completely open, perhaps by ensuring that a structure of checks and > balances > operates automatically, pushing good opinions to the top (something like > stackoverflow?). > > So I'm looking for ideas and collaborators on how to do all this - > > 1. Create a permanent data format for storage and retrieval of event > details including actions and intentions of individuals and the context > surrounding them. > 2. An objective and automatic criteria for scoring each individual based > on their history. > 3. A system that enables everyone to participate easily and in a > structured fashion. > 4. A system of checks and balances that ensures that only the best > opinions are the most visible ones, while still giving non-mainstream > opinions a chance to become popular. > 5. A convenient user interface that presents all the information in the > easiest way possible (Natural language search anyone?). > > I apologise if I seem incoherent and/or generic. I don't have any idea of > what such a system could look like. Infact I just came up with this "idea" > after seeing all that has been happening in our "democratic" country today. > We have become desensitised and forgetful, and not on purpose. I believe > the > situation can be improved by providing the public with enough context to > make better decisions. > > -- Anupam > _______________________________________________ > Ilugd mailing list > [email protected] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > -- Regards, Sanjeev _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
