KandiDaten (Working Title)
Hält ein/e Politiker/in, was sie/er verspricht? Bleibt er seiner Linie treu oder dreht er seine Fahne nach dem Wind? KandiDaten fasst Aussagen der Politiker aus deren Blogs, traditionellen und sozialen Medien zusammen und stellt sie deren Abstimmungsverhalten gegenüber. Interessierte Personen und NGOs können Aussagen der Politiker in Medien und deren Blogs in die Timeline eintragen. Ausserdem können sie Widersprüche z.B. zwischen Aussagen und Abstimmungsverhalten markieren und kommentieren aber auch kongruentes Verhalten. Das Abstimmungsverhalten und Beiträge in Sozialen Medien sollen zukünftig automatisiert eingespeist werden.
In English Does a politician hold true to what s/he promises? Do they hold their line or he turn like a flag in the wind? Candidate summarizes statements of politicians from quotes, blogs, traditional and social media, and compares them with their voting behavior. Interested individuals and NGOs can submit statements of politicians in the media and their blogs to the timeline. They can then mark contradictions between statements and parliamentary votes, but also comment on incongruent behavior. Voting behavior data and contributions in social media are to be collected automatically in the next version.
Demo: kandidaten.soda.camp
- Live data API - Trello board - Source code - Data schema
<GITHUB loleg/kandidaten>
Data
- SmartVote / SmartMonitor (have provided tentative lists of candidates for upcoming elections)
Vimentis(short term declined, but they could discuss it at the next board meeting)
Links/Inspirations
NB: see chparlscraping, a related project also started at the Elections Hackdays.
- GovTrack.us - Tracking the U.S. Congress
- Represent (via OKFN)
Next Steps
The 5-person team formed at the hackdays is already making plans to continue the project, see the Trello project board for further ideas and feel free to join us if you'd like to support this initiative.