KOLANICH
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3 years ago IMHO "goverment changelog" means a formal language for encoding legislation and actions and maybe an AI doing it for people. May be useful for multiple use cases:
- public logs of someone actions, with attention to claims and promises and final results. Automatic detection of promises not kept. And maybe a query language, with queries like "give 10% of the US politicians who have the closest ties to Ukrainian businesses".
- summarizing interests of politicians and automatically generating a dossier for each.
- software giving law advice at the cost of electricity spent on computation
- automatic detection of bills violating Constitution
- comparison of legislation of different states and generating infographics
sbutler-gh
mikkel1156
sweethuman
Project description
Changelogs in the dev space are extremely useful, it helps you see the health of a project and relevant information immediately. In case of governments and the actions they do aren't so easy to digest, understand the impact and form a clear map of what's happening. I understand that everything that is happening is complex, despite that, I still need a way to understand at least what's going on without having to constantly keep up just so I can make the right decision.
Journalists play a key role in this ordeal and help unearth lies and deceit, and report on what actions have been made. Still a normal person that is already busy doesn't necessarily have the resources to do a background search when I need to decide and cast my vote or know when to call my representatives to make a reclamation.
I thought there must a solution where you can take a political party, or a political person and easily look at their past, former affiliations, actions they have made, and how those connect with other actions and movements just so I can make a good decision and not be manipulated. Facts are more important that whatever promises they are going to make, because it's hard to fulfill all of them and we don't have the same transparency and feedback loop like in a development environment where you empirically know progress is being made and you know who to trust and who not to trust.
My best idea is an online platform, with crowdsourced information using articles as reference and basis. Where one piece of information can be referenced in multiple places and have a graph like data structure of everything so you can than filter and look at the relevant information you need without having to search on google about that person and having to waste all that time doing research.
I know it's extraordinarily complex and there are many factors at play here; I'm posting this more as an open discussion to figure out what would consist in a good solution and what challenges, philosophically and physically are there.
TLDR; Platform to cut through the amount of political data, and effort one must make, to get empirical data and results about the political environment and its components.
Relevant Technology
Probably something like Spring on the backend. I don't really know, it's pretty complex.
Complexity and required time
An MVP could probably be made in a few months and from then on just constant improvement to make it easier to understand and navigate and data filtration.
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