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Presentasjon av den frivillige organisasjonen Holder de ord, som skal jobbe for å publisere stemmedata fra Stortinget koblet med partienes løfter. Holdt på Communities in action 08.02.2012
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Communities in action 08/02/2012
Ingrid Ødegaard, Head of Digital Strategy
ingrid@holderdeord.no
13.02.2012 www.holderdeord.no
Why is open data important for democracy?
“The strange-sounding term monitory democracy is the most exact for
describing the big transformation that is taking hold …
Monitory democracy is a new historical form of democracy, a variety
of ‘post-parliamentary’ politics defined by the rapid growth of many
different kinds of extra-parliamentary, power-scrutinising
mechanisms that extend sideways and downwards through the whole
political order. “
- John Keane, The Life and Death of Democracy (2009)
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How does democracy work?
Get elected
Make laws/ Pass
policies Accountability?
Campaign promises
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How does monitory democracy work?
Get elected
Make laws/ Pass
policies Accountability!
Campaign promises
Presupposes that those subjected to transparency actually care about public opinion and/or building trust…
Open data = Transparency
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What’s our mission?
Increase transparency in parlimentary processes
Increase visibility of political parties’ policies and promises
Make it easier for journalists, bloggers, researchers and citizens to hold parties and politicians accountable
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Who are we?
Started out in 2009 as a climate change initative – investigating
whether the politicians’ promises were implemented
Started co-operating with Norwegian Unix User group (NUUG) in
2011, after both working on the beta version of data.stortinget.no
Now building an organization to develop and run www.holderdeord.no
as a leading Norwegian website for political data about all areas of
politics
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What do we want to do?
Gather and publish data on how the parties and representatives
vote in Parliament
Organize and publish the political parties’ program policies and
promises to allow for comparison between parties, and comparison
to the parties’ voting
Present political decision making in a easy and visual way, make it
easy for citizens to find information about topics important to them
Gather and publish other political facts with direct relevance for the
Norwegian democracy and how it functions
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Skisse
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What kind of skills are we building on?
Open data Political Science
Data Visualization/
Usability Design
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We are part of an international trend
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Timeline
Design/Prototyping
Organization building
Political process modeling
First working prototype
June February April
Iteration and expansion
Election 2013!
Technical infrastructure
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We need help!
How can you contribute?
• Examine and maybe translate code from
foreign sites
• Front end coding
• Backend coding
• Content management system
• Building functionality on XML, RSS feeds,
widgets
• Contribute to building an open source
community, co-operate with other
foras/networks
• Funding/sponsorship
• Contact ingrid@holderdeord.no
• Twitter: @ingridod
Credit: John C. Dvorak.
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Conference: Open Legislative Data in Paris
• July 6th & 7th in Paris
• International conference aimed at
gathering both academics and
hactivists working on parliamentary
and legislative issues
• The common project of
RegardCitoyens with SciencesPo
MediaLab will present during the
event the first prototype of a
legislative evolution monitoring
tool
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French project: The Law Factory
“The research project “The Law Factory” aims at using different
software and informatics tools in order to question the generalized
Parliament impotence corroborated by a number of case studies, namely
from the legal and political science area.”
http://www.lafabriquedelaloi.fr
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References: International sites
Poland: http://sejmometr.pl/
France: http://www.regardscitoyens.org/
France: http://www.nosdeputes.fr/
Finland: http://www.kansanmuisti.fi/
UK: http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/
UK: http://www.theyworkforyou.com/
EU: http://www.itsyourparliament.eu/
US: http://www.politifact.com/
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