Political Memory (Memopol) is a toolbox designed to help citizens reach members of European Parliament (MEPs), and track their voting records. Presented at HackDemocracy Brussels' 5th Meetup.
4. Let’s start by a bit of context
How we act:
• Among other things...
5. Let’s start by a bit of context
How we act:
• Among other things...
• Raising the awareness of citizen on the action of their
elected representatives
6. Let’s start by a bit of context
How we act:
• Among other things...
• Raising the awareness of citizen on the action of their
elected representatives
• Encourage citizen to get involved in the political life
7. Let’s start by a bit of context
How we act:
• Among other things...
• Raising the awareness of citizen on the action of their
elected representatives
• Encourage citizen to get involved in the political life
• Making phoning campaign, working directly with some
committee, written declarations etc...
8. Let’s start by a bit of context
How we act:
• Among other things...
• Raising the awareness of citizen on the action of their
elected representatives
• Encourage citizen to get involved in the political life
• Making phoning campaign, working directly with some
committee, written declarations etc...
• Increase the political cost of decisions
10. So we need a tool that...
• Help us manage the interfaction with all the elected
representatives
11. So we need a tool that...
• Help us manage the interfaction with all the elected
representatives
• Keep track of what they are doing
12. So we need a tool that...
• Help us manage the interfaction with all the elected
representatives
• Keep track of what they are doing
• A tool to manage our campaigns
13. So we need a tool that...
• Help us manage the interfaction with all the elected
representatives
• Keep track of what they are doing
• A tool to manage our campaigns
• Be able to give notations on the way they are voting
14. So we need a tool that...
• Help us manage the interfaction with all the elected
representatives
• Keep track of what they are doing
• A tool to manage our campaigns
• Be able to give notations on the way they are voting
• Have the possibility to gather user input
15. So we need a tool that...
• Help us manage the interfaction with all the elected
representatives
• Keep track of what they are doing
• A tool to manage our campaigns
• Be able to give notations on the way they are voting
• Have the possibility to gather user input
• Make it easy for citizen to contact their elected
representative ...
16. So we need a tool that...
• Help us manage the interfaction with all the elected
representatives
• Keep track of what they are doing
• A tool to manage our campaigns
• Be able to give notations on the way they are voting
• Have the possibility to gather user input
• Make it easy for citizen to contact their elected
representative ... and see how they have behaved
17. But, as a citizen, what is our interest here ?
18. But, as a citizen, what is our interest here ?
• Increase the efficienty of citizen groups
19. But, as a citizen, what is our interest here ?
• Increase the efficienty of citizen groups
• It’s easier for us to contact our representatives
20. But, as a citizen, what is our interest here ?
• Increase the efficienty of citizen groups
• It’s easier for us to contact our representatives
• Help us vote with a more accurate view of what our
repesentatives have done
21.
22.
23. But this version of memopol have some problems ...
• It use old techno in a very hackish way
24. But this version of memopol have some problems ...
• It use old techno in a very hackish way
• This make it complex, hard to maintain, to extend and very
hard to deploy
25. But this version of memopol have some problems ...
• It use old techno in a very hackish way
• This make it complex, hard to maintain, to extend and very
hard to deploy
• Only one dev that don’t have the time to use it (and is the
only one that barely understand how the hell this works)
26. But this version of memopol have some problems ...
• It use old techno in a very hackish way
• This make it complex, hard to maintain, to extend and very
hard to deploy
• Only one dev that don’t have the time to use it (and is the
only one that barely understand how the hell this works)
• We are the only one to use it :(
27. But this version of memopol have some problems ...
• It use old techno in a very hackish way
• This make it complex, hard to maintain, to extend and very
hard to deploy
• Only one dev that don’t have the time to use it (and is the
only one that barely understand how the hell this works)
• We are the only one to use it :(
• We decide to recode everything in python/django to fix
those problems
o/
46. Memopol needs you !
If you want to
• Be Involve in an ambitious project
• Change the way citizen interact with their elected
representatives
• Increase the transparency of the democratic process
• Save the world
47. Memopol needs you !
If you want to
• Be Involve in an ambitious project
• Change the way citizen interact with their elected
representatives
• Increase the transparency of the democratic process
• Save the world
Memopol needs:
• Python/django devs
• Webdevs
• Data visualisation and mining lovers
• And much more
48. Details
Urls:
• Memopol1: http://memoirepolitique.eu/
• Memopol2 (warning: dev version!): http://memopol2.lqdn.fr
• Dev blog (not finished): http://memopol.org
Twitter:
• @memopol2
Email:
• cortex@worlddomination.be
Questions ?
