As I cross-posted this across a number of communities with different interests, I thought I'd share back what people shared.
** NCDD-Discussion: Tim Bonnemann : I'm tracking proposals in these areas: * Collaborative fact checking * Civil civic discourse and bridging partisan divides * Policy making and issue-based learning * Community engagement capacity building and infrastructure Here's my growing list: http://www.intellitics.com/blog/2015/03/19/knight-news-challenge-entries-related-to-voter-information-and-policy-making/ Andrew Rockway: Here's the Jefferson Center's: https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/up-for-debate-ohio-empowering-voters-and-media-through-civil-substantive-political-engagement-in-the-nation-s-most-contested-electoral-battleground The project focuses on using citizen deliberation and dialogue to help direct media coverage of the campaign/election. Angela Andrews: I’m new to the NCDD listserv, but since we’re highlighting News Challenge proposals, I wanted to bring your attention to the “Voter Information; The Legislative Role” proposal that was submitted by my colleague’s in NCSL’s Election Program. See the proposal here: https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/voter-information-the-legislative-role Tyrone Reitman: It was a pretty incredible outpouring of ideas today, closing in at almost 1000 (600 or so just today). Here's Healthy Democracy's proposal to integrate online engagement with in-person deliberation via the Citizens' Initiative Review to inform voters about ballot measures. https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/closing-the-ballot-measure-information-gap-with-citizens-initiative-review-online-mobile-engagement ** Brigade: Derek Eder: We just proposed a Politician Reconciliation Service that will act as a canonical source of identifiers in order to enable others to research and aggregate all the data ever created about a politician. https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/politician-reconciliation-service Pretty excited for DataMade to partner with Sunlight Foundation & Open Elections on this one. John C. Osborn: Code for America submission https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/open-disclosure-california-connecting-people-to-their-local-campaign-finance-data ** LibertationTech: Joe Hall: (Disclosure: I'm on the board of CVF) This is one I hope you'll all check out (although California-centric) that is a collaboration between the California Voter Foundation, Pew's Center on the States, and Google's Voter Information Project: A Unified Voter Guide for California Voters, Online https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/a-unified-voter-guide-for-california-voters-online ** Poplus: (join in btw: http://bit.ly/poplustech James McKinney: Awesome! Any other entries people are excited about? I've noticed: https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/politician-reconciliation-service https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/politifilter-understanding-what-the-world-s-politicians-are-saying-about-your-issues https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/councilmatic-versions-of-opencongress-for-city-governments https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/crowd-sourced-calendar-of-independent-election-events More from James: 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: 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. 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/map-your-stake https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/citizen-springboard-the-leap-from-the-civil-to-the-political-society https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/the-promise-fact-checker-crowd-checking-campaign-promises https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/playing-musical-chairs-el-juego-de-las-bancas https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/data-based-games-to-help-with-candidate-selection Abrazo! Steven Clift - Executive Director, E-Democracy * Support E-Democracy. Pledge drive to raise $10,000 US: http://e-democracy.org/donate?ft - Only $890 to 2015 Goal On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Steven Clift <[email protected]> wrote: > Please share some links to your proposal or to those you like most. > > Here is one ... > > Thanks to power of Google Docs and Skype chatter, a collaborative crew from > six countries worked on this (more below from Martin): > > Who Are My Candidates? > > http://bit.ly/6countriesnewschallenge > > If you like the idea of leveraging the UK's http://YourNextMP.com code in > your city, state or nation to generate fundamental open data on candidates, > join the Poplus.org online group: http://bit.ly/poplusgroup > > Also, if you really want to tune in or help now, join the UK Democracy > Club's online group: > https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/democracy-club > > Start coding: > https://github.com/mysociety/yournextmp-popit > > Or start helping with the crowd-sourcing on UK candidates: > https://yournextmp.com/tasks/ > > More from Martin in Argentina below ... > > Steven Clift > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Martín Szyszlican" <[email protected]> > Date: Mar 19, 2015 1:33 PM > Subject: [Poplus] NewsChallenge: Who Are My Candidates? Fundamental election > data, and fundamentally useful voter tools, in six countries. > To: "poplus" <[email protected]> > Cc: > > 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. > > -- > Martín Szyszlican > Desarrollo web usable y accesible > martinszyszlican.com > > > > -- > Poplus.org - Get involved: http://poplus.org/get-involved > IRC: #poplus https://webchat.freenode.net > Docs: http://bit.ly/poplusdrive > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Poplus - Collaborative Civic Coding" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/poplus. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/poplus/CAKTxXVXCuKn0L2s%2BXOp4h%2BWziCGvRs50sU_7yaHvpi2tkWiVrw%40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. 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