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Hey all, Poplus <http://poplus.org/>, the network that mySociety<http://www.mysociety.org/>and Ciudadano Inteligente <http://www.ciudadanointeligente.org/?lang=en>have founded, has taken a big step forward today, thanks to the launch of SayIt<http://sayit.mysociety.org/>. Our goal is to collaboratively build pieces of technology that make it quicker and cheaper for people around the world to build websites and apps designed to make empower citizens. We would love users, developers, activists NGOs and CSOs to contribute to this network in any way they wish. It could be by building, using, testing or sharing components! But I digress, back to the launch. SayIt <http://sayit.mysociety.org/> exists to make it easy to publish beautiful, easy to search, transcripts of politicians’ speeches, interviews, and the proceedings of trials. We've uploaded some examples from the UK that are demos of what SayIt could be used for: The Leveson Inquiry <http://leveson.sayit.mysociety.org/> An investigation into press ethics in the UK The Charles Taylor trial <http://charles-taylor.sayit.mysociety.org/> The former president of Liberia’s war crimes trial And the complete works of Shakespeare<http://shakespeare.sayit.mysociety.org/>(you can search them for any keyword<http://shakespeare.sayit.mysociety.org/search/?q=unicorn>, browse by character <http://shakespeare.sayit.mysociety.org/speakers>, or by individual plays <http://shakespeare.sayit.mysociety.org/speeches>). However, the real goal of SayIt <http://sayit.mysociety.org/> is to accelerate the launch of websites, all around the world, that keep track of what is said by politicians and other powerful people. The idea is thatthis component could be added to existing websites without having to abandon all your current technology. We're currently only accepting transcripts in the Akoma Ntoso standard for upload (because the project is still in Alpha) but we've got a little documentation on how to parse to the standard and we will be spending some time helping people who need help with getting their data online. We’ve written a blog post<http://www.mysociety.org/2014/01/15/introducing-sayit-a-poplus-component-to-bring-transcript-publication-into-the-modern-world/>about the launch where you can see a little more information about what this component does but for the technical people it's probably better to go onto the site and look around. Please do browse, use and give feedback! All the best Jen -- Jen Bramley *International Project Development Manager* mySociety | mysociety.org/international/ Tel: 0044 (0) 7806 604 041 Skype: JenMySoc @mySocietyIntl If you have set up Alaveteli or FixMyStreet please fill in our surveys! FixMyStreet Survey<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/10PnEmAgX9d3ZayB2O9xGKNbGaBWaPK9ioSs-rz4-SgM/viewform> and Alaveteli Survey<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1INYP6NUOukNWXhzHDWCGlxySE0_LibMaa1zqma_kuRc/viewform>
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