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Chribert
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what do people need to know in a democracy? A sketch for a website project
February 14, 2011 - 05:07 AM
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Hi, I'm a student at the Bergen National Academy of Art in Norway, and I'm just getting started on my bachelor's project.
In short: the idea I have is for a website that gives wider information about local politics, where the news media mainly gives narrower daily updates.
In long: http://fortelle.no/blog/?p=801
The central question is in the subject line of the thread, but there are plenty of other questions, like:
what kind of similar sites are out there?
is there some potential usefulness I've overlooked?
If anyone has some experience doing something similar, what should I keep in mind, do you have any tips?
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Re: what do people need to know in a democracy? A sketch for a website project
February 18, 2011 - 09:46 AM
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I found a couple of pages that are similar to what I'm trying to do, except on a national level. Both from the UK:
About the activities in parlaments and assemblies:
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/
About the budget:
http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org/
While I think my site might be more issue-oriented, and with simpler language.
I also found one or two great examples of pages that can engage people to action as well, but I don't have the links here now.
This post was edited on: 2011-02-18 at 09:48 AM by: Chribert
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Re: what do people need to know in a democracy? A sketch for a website project
February 18, 2011 - 10:16 AM
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Ah, found them:
A website for collectively getting information out of politicians:
http://www.democracyclub.org.uk/
A site that lets busy people sign up for "microvolunteering":
http://www.sparked.com/
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