Open Source Voting Software

An open-source intelligence platform for political transparency in Sweden, providing governance insights and accountability metrics.

The Civic Tech Field Guide is led by its Curator, Matt Stempeck. The project’s mission is to effectively grow the field of civic tech. We have many challenges facing democracies and the world at large, and it’s our belief that we need more people contributing more productively to improving things. This belief drives our core values of: A global perspective, as we can all learn from others’ work. Making our resources as available as possible through open source code, open data licensing, and strong accessibility. Inclusively pointing to helpful resources others have created, even and especially if they could be seen as competitors. Providing an often missing archival memory of the field, so we can learn from our past mistakes and get better at what we do, rather than brush failures under the carpet.

Issue Campaign web site. 3 pages are available: index to tell the issue, voters page, and administration page.

This project is related to the Partito Pirata source code issueHere we host the development and sharing of the source code of the production into the Partito Pirata project. Every single bit in terms of information and source code will be available here for free

Petitioner is a CGI application written in Python that lets users create and send petitions to multiple members of parliament at once. Petitions are saved to a unique link that can be shared. Every time someone follows that link, a petition will be sent to the selected MPs.

Google Desktop Gadget inspired by the 'Change the Web Challenge' and an application of the Social Actions API. Takes advantage of the Social Actions API, an open database of 60,000+ actions from over 40 action sources. See www.socialactions.com.

A tool for exploring records of nominative votes in various legislatures. Currently, it includes just one legislature -- the US Congress -- and one simple visualization. (Code for CPython and Jython.)

Uses the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset and the 2010 US Census data to create representational voting districts with equivalent population.

Lobbiest Data Analysis. Analysis of publically available data from the FEC and other sources. Production of "top 10 dirtiest politicians" web site. Click on the develop tab to find out how you can help.

Meetings usually are unbearable. People spend a lot of time listening things in which they are not interested or they knew yet. Most of the people don't have any chance to speak, and moderators can bend the debate to their own interests. New technologies offer the ability to improve this, but how? The ideal tool would let every user adds their opinions and proposals. It would order all of them in a frame easy to follow. It wouldn't need any moderator. And finally, the ideal tool would be very easy to use. With all those objectives this web tool has been designed. It is very similar to a forum. The differences are: the system distinguishes between opinions and proposals, each proposal can be voted and shows a voting box, the proposals are ordered in a folder-like frame maintained by the users themselves, opinions are in a pull-down panel under every proposal. With these features, whatever debate can be express by means of this tool.