With an election in Canada in about 11 weeks, is there interest in a Canadian version of the http://yournextmp.com site from the UK?
Is there a need? Even if candidate lists are pretty easy to come by, the opportunity to deeply connect the personal Facebook profiles of candidates to interested voters is a huge opportunity for deeper engagement. (And other social media links.) Argentina is up: http://investigacion.yoquierosaber.org Here is the code base: https://github.com/mysociety/yournextrepresentative/ And you can join the Poplus.org community to connect with others interested in the code: http://bit.ly/poplusgroup A small prototype grant was just announced for YourNextRepresentative by Knight: http://www.knightfoundation.org/grants/201551234/ I am hoping E-Democracy can leverage their small grant to test with election data from Saint Paul (a Knight city): http://e-democracy.org/stpaul15 With elections happening every month, the huge democratic data gap on both who is on my ballot AND who are these candidates AND where can I connect with them on social media needs to be closed. So for all those democracy promotion funders out there - please jump on this collaborative, open source ship now! With funded efforts in country after country, sharing code with the next this can be an amazing engine for cost-effective democracy building. Steven Clift E-Democracy.org
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