120706 Holder de ord IOGDC

Bringer politikken til folket

Daniel Rees, Co-Founder and Managing Director [email protected]

International Open Government Data Conference 6 July 2012

Who are we?

!   Based in Oslo, Norway

!   Non-profit

!   About 20 volunteers

!   We connect voting data and electoral promises

!   Prototype of site is live at http://beta.holderdeord.no

!   We’ve won an advertising campaign worth €3 mill. – to be run prior to elections 2013! J

06.07.12 www.holderdeord.no

The challenge

!   Data needs to be accurate and correct

! Verifiable and methodologically sound

Our model needs to be both accurate and accessible.

!   Present data in a way that people can relate to

!   Make political processes easier to understand

Accuracy Accessiblity +


Our solution – a topic-based model

The war in Afghanistan

Property tax

Wage regula;ons

”See what poli,cians voted and promised on topics that are important to you!”

! Based on these topics, we collect related votes and promises and present them on the same page.

!   The viewer can now compare votes to the promises and decide if the politician has done what he or she promised.


How does our model work?

Topic: The war in Afghanistan

Promises related to ”the war in afghanistan”

Votes related to ”the war in afghanistan”

Created by us

Data

What needs to be voted to be in favor of topic. Posi;on


Topic page


How do we create topics?


Examples of promises

NB: Transla;on by Google Translate, not accurate…


Challenges and lessons learnt

!   Making sense of intricacies in the parliamentary system

!   Defining topics

!   Processing incoming votes

!   Technical architecture

!   Finding out what triggers people

!   Get input for stakeholders


A call for collaboration!

! We are eager to discuss and share experiences and best practices

!   Wiki: https://holderdeord.atlassian.net/wiki/

! https://github.com/holderdeord/

! http://beta.holderdeord.no

! [email protected]

News & Politics

120706 Holder de ord IOGDC