Putting up our learning as volunteer for nearly 6 months , for a political party , for a Assembly Constituency in recently held Karnataka State election ,,, into a product.
The document describes a mobile app and web interface being developed to standardize problem reporting for civic issues like water, electricity, roads, etc. The goal is to provide political parties, activists, and media a centralized source of data on governance issues to help evaluate performance. Citizens can report issues via the app, which classifies them by location and type. Analytics will monitor the number and location of problems to identify underperforming areas and departments. This is intended to increase transparency and accountability of elected officials and public services.
This document proposes creating a citizen reporting platform using smartphones to improve governance and civic participation. Citizens would use a simple app to report issues like poor infrastructure, corruption, or lawlessness via tweets tagged to their location. These reports would be compiled and analyzed to identify problem areas for local media and activists to investigate. The goal is to motivate officials and hold them accountable by demonstrating citizen concerns ahead of elections. Analytics from the platform could also be used commercially and to facilitate political debates.
Organisation And Management Of Political Parties And Politicians Module From ...Change Workshop
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Administrative and financial management of a political partyIAGorgph
Presented by Cristita Marie Giangan at the Trainers' Training for the Development of Bangsamoro Political Party | Best Western Hotel La Corona, Ermita Manila | March 26-31, 2014
The document describes a proposed mobile app and web interface to collect civic issue data from citizens in a standardized way. The app would allow users to report issues related to amenities like water, electricity, roads, etc. and classify them by type and location. This collected data could then be analyzed to evaluate the performance of local governments and departments, identify unaddressed issues, and increase transparency. The goal is to empower citizens to participate in governance and give all stakeholders like political parties and activists access to the same civic problem information.
The document describes a mobile app and web interface being developed to standardize problem reporting for civic issues like water, electricity, roads, etc. The goal is to provide political parties, activists, and media a centralized source of data on governance issues to help evaluate performance. Citizens can report issues via the app, which classifies them by location and type. Analytics will monitor the number and location of problems to identify underperforming areas and departments. This is intended to increase transparency and accountability of elected officials and public services.
This document proposes creating a citizen reporting platform using smartphones to improve governance and civic participation. Citizens would use a simple app to report issues like poor infrastructure, corruption, or lawlessness via tweets tagged to their location. These reports would be compiled and analyzed to identify problem areas for local media and activists to investigate. The goal is to motivate officials and hold them accountable by demonstrating citizen concerns ahead of elections. Analytics from the platform could also be used commercially and to facilitate political debates.
Organisation And Management Of Political Parties And Politicians Module From ...Change Workshop
The document summarizes modules from a capacity building workshop for political parties and politicians in Malaysia. It discusses the need for PKR to strengthen its intra-party organization after gaining more seats in the 12th Malaysian general election. It also outlines characteristics of a strong organization like division of responsibility and communication. The document provides examples of organizational structures for political parties and strategies for leading organizational change, sustaining competitive advantage, and strategic planning.
Administrative and financial management of a political partyIAGorgph
Presented by Cristita Marie Giangan at the Trainers' Training for the Development of Bangsamoro Political Party | Best Western Hotel La Corona, Ermita Manila | March 26-31, 2014
The document describes a proposed mobile app and web interface to collect civic issue data from citizens in a standardized way. The app would allow users to report issues related to amenities like water, electricity, roads, etc. and classify them by type and location. This collected data could then be analyzed to evaluate the performance of local governments and departments, identify unaddressed issues, and increase transparency. The goal is to empower citizens to participate in governance and give all stakeholders like political parties and activists access to the same civic problem information.
The document proposes creating a citizen reporting platform to improve governance using mobile technology. Citizens would use a simple app to report issues like poor infrastructure, services, or law and order problems via tweets tagged to their location. These reports would be compiled to identify areas that need attention from local leaders or media. The goal is to empower citizens, increase accountability around elections, and solve problems through community participation rather than apathy or bureaucracy. Key aspects include dividing areas by constituencies, training citizens, potential monetization, and using data to drive decisions and debate between political candidates.
The document describes an app called eSwaraj that aims to create a simplified citizen complaint system. It allows people to easily report problems they are facing to their local representatives. The app collects complaint data, categorizes it, and provides visualization of problem areas through maps and analytics. This is intended to increase transparency around public issues, take workload off volunteers, and help political parties and others focus on solutions rather than just finding problems. It also has potential benefits for students interested in public governance.
This document discusses using micro-news analytics to understand civic issues and improve governance. It outlines the key parties that would benefit, including citizens, commercial entities, political parties, and social activists. It then categorizes common complaints about civic systems into issues related to infrastructure, maintenance, staff behavior, and pricing. Examples of typical complaints are provided for several systems, including law and order, water, electricity, transportation, sanitation, and roads. The goal is to translate people's issues into technical data that can help target improvements to infrastructure, maintenance, or staff quality, with the aim of enabling citizens to better hold local leaders accountable.
The platform promises to offer constituency-level analytics based on citizen complaints. It will provide various visualizations including charts and graphs comparing issues across constituencies over time. Complaints can be categorized into issues related to infrastructure, maintenance, staff, pricing, and awareness. The analytics will help various groups including citizens, businesses, activists, and political parties by identifying best and worst performing areas on key issues. This will allow targeted interventions and assessments of elected representatives.
This document discusses crowd mapping and participatory mapping to collect data from citizens to address local issues. It outlines how a crowd mapping platform could allow citizens to report issues via various methods and see them displayed on a map. This helps identify patterns and root causes. The document discusses stakeholders, implementation plans, potential achievements like transparency and benefits like a collective view of issues. It provides an example of using crowd mapping for disaster preparedness.
This document discusses how a mobile app can help various groups involved in governance and civic participation, including political parties, social activists, local media, and common people. It describes how the app allows political party workers to more easily document issues to raise in speeches. It also explains how social activists and media can use complaint data from the app to monitor governance and highlight corruption. Finally, it suggests that the low-effort nature of reporting issues on a mobile app could significantly increase civic participation from common people.
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Public administration involves implementing government policy to manage programs and ensure effective governance. Technology has made public administration more efficient through e-government and e-governance initiatives. E-government uses technology to deliver information and services to citizens, while e-governance focuses on citizen participation in governance through digital tools. The European Youth Parliament engages young people in political debate and helps them learn skills through modeling the European Parliament.
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The document proposes a new social network called WePolitics that aims to redefine citizen participation in democracy. It would allow users to express opinions on political issues, see real-time statistics, and connect citizens and politicians. The founders argue democracy is not working due to low citizen participation. WePolitics would use polling and social features to understand public opinion in real-time and give citizens and politicians a way to engage in dialogue. It would target the market research industry and offer premium services, targeted ads, and white-label licenses to other organizations. The founders have experience in politics, product development, and operations and aim to launch in Greece and expand internationally.
The document examines preferences for mobile apps created by the South Korean central and local governments. A survey analyzed app download data from the Korean Government Portal. A T-test found higher downloads for central government apps than local ones. An ANOVA analyzed preferences by app type, finding "Commerce applications" for credit transfers or booking performances were most preferred, followed by "Local based applications" for nearby places. The findings suggest central government apps are viewed as more useful and easy to use. Support is needed for local governments to develop high-quality apps and pursue digital governance goals.
Talk given to the Smart City course students at CEPT University. Oct 19, 2014.
* Overview on Physical (IoT/Sensor), Cyber (OpenGov) and Social (citizen Sensing) data
* Relevance to City Departments
* Three smart city applications (from India, Europe and US)
More on the course: http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/cept-launches-first-ever-course-on-smart-cities/
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The document describes an app called eSwaraj that aims to create a simplified citizen complaint system. It allows people to easily report problems they are facing to their local representatives. The app collects complaint data, categorizes it, and provides visualization of problem areas through maps and analytics. This is intended to increase transparency around public issues, take workload off volunteers, and help political parties and others focus on solutions rather than just finding problems. It also has potential benefits for students interested in public governance.
This document discusses using micro-news analytics to understand civic issues and improve governance. It outlines the key parties that would benefit, including citizens, commercial entities, political parties, and social activists. It then categorizes common complaints about civic systems into issues related to infrastructure, maintenance, staff behavior, and pricing. Examples of typical complaints are provided for several systems, including law and order, water, electricity, transportation, sanitation, and roads. The goal is to translate people's issues into technical data that can help target improvements to infrastructure, maintenance, or staff quality, with the aim of enabling citizens to better hold local leaders accountable.
The platform promises to offer constituency-level analytics based on citizen complaints. It will provide various visualizations including charts and graphs comparing issues across constituencies over time. Complaints can be categorized into issues related to infrastructure, maintenance, staff, pricing, and awareness. The analytics will help various groups including citizens, businesses, activists, and political parties by identifying best and worst performing areas on key issues. This will allow targeted interventions and assessments of elected representatives.
This document discusses crowd mapping and participatory mapping to collect data from citizens to address local issues. It outlines how a crowd mapping platform could allow citizens to report issues via various methods and see them displayed on a map. This helps identify patterns and root causes. The document discusses stakeholders, implementation plans, potential achievements like transparency and benefits like a collective view of issues. It provides an example of using crowd mapping for disaster preparedness.
This document discusses how a mobile app can help various groups involved in governance and civic participation, including political parties, social activists, local media, and common people. It describes how the app allows political party workers to more easily document issues to raise in speeches. It also explains how social activists and media can use complaint data from the app to monitor governance and highlight corruption. Finally, it suggests that the low-effort nature of reporting issues on a mobile app could significantly increase civic participation from common people.
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Public administration involves implementing government policy to manage programs and ensure effective governance. Technology has made public administration more efficient through e-government and e-governance initiatives. E-government uses technology to deliver information and services to citizens, while e-governance focuses on citizen participation in governance through digital tools. The European Youth Parliament engages young people in political debate and helps them learn skills through modeling the European Parliament.
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Janta Choupal is a social media app for citizens, leaders, and administrators in Maharashtra to connect locally and address civic issues. A survey of 15,000 households found that 60% don't know their neighbors, 70% use smartphones but are not connected to elected representatives, and 99.99% had social or civic issues but no transparency in the resolution process. The app aims to fill the gap of local social media by allowing citizens to report issues, elected officials to address them, and track progress through citizen journalism. It has started gaining traction and impact but future plans include premium services, hyperlocal advertising, and data analytics to generate revenue.
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* Relevance to City Departments
* Three smart city applications (from India, Europe and US)
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2. • We were volunteers for six months for a
political party for a particular AC, in recently
held Karnataka Assembly election.
• Whatever we Observed and learnt as a
volunteer, based on that We are trying to
build a tool that can help real stake holders of
public governance.
3. • Local level politics is all about civic amenities.
– Water , electricity ,sewage & sanitation , roads ,
public transportation , Law &order.
– Most people are affected by poor qualities of
these things.
– Not everybody is aware of full extent of the
problem
– How many people are affected , what all areas of
constituency we have these problems etc.
4. • Data collection is a very big challenge.
• Political parties, party workers do the jobs of
problem collection.
• But still, majority don’t get to participate.
• Reason, raising issue is not very simple,
tracking them and coordinating affected
people 10x harder.
• Many people raise the same issue in different
manner.
5. • So, we decided to develop Mobile app & web
Interface to standardize the problem
collection.
• So that later political parties , RTI activist ,
press have the same data to evaluate
governance.
• Data generation is crowd sourced.
6. SomeStats
• Total population of India 120cr.
• Total Assembly constituencies : ~ 4200
• Total number of voters : 75 Crore
• Average voters per AC ~ 2lacs
• Total polling booths :7,00,000
• Average polling booths per AC : 200
• Average voter per booth: 1071 ppl.
7. • Total number of city assembly
constituencies:
• 4200x1/5 ~ 800
• Total big cities ( top 6 ) constituencies
– 227
– Total voters there ~ 5 crore
– Total smartphones ~ 1.5 crore
– Android powered 60%.
8. • Numbers:
total big cities : 6
total assembly constituencies : 227
size per constituency : 2-3 lakh voters
typical Constituency size(area) : 40-50 km^2
Smartphone penetration 20% .
40-50 thousand ppl. Per constituency.
Lot of visibility.
10,000 Average margin between winner & Loser
9. • What we did , for POC , we took Bangalore ,
we divide it into a grid of 100mX100m.
• Such that for each node point , we know the
people representative responsible for
governance.
• With the lat/long of perimeter of a assembly
constituency and we generated this grid.
10. • Now when a citizen , have to complaint about the
quality of any of the civic amenity ,
• He/she does via app .
• Data generated goes to the server.
• Based on Lat/long we put it under correct
constituency.
• Thus issue or problem are out in open.
• Opposition parties , RTI activist , press have the
access to same information.
11. • Now we have high level of transparency , in
term of work done by current government.
• And also where people want them to improve
.
• Thus easing the jobs of everybody involved.
• What impact it will have ???
– You be the judge
15. Mails / Subscription Mailers
ConcernCvic
Department
•Concern Utility Head
•For e.g BWSSB
MLA
• Opposition Party
• Ruling Party MLA_Office
SocialActivist
• Social Activist
• RTI Specializing firms
LocalPress/Media
OtherCitizens
16. Backend Analytics
• Assume that we have such data available from all parts of the city .
• We can publish RealTime relative performance of MLA’s.
• Also, Now its easy for RTI activist to file RTI to bring out corruption in areas of civic amenities
( roads/electricity/water/sewage & sanitation/transportation)
– Thus effective use of Citizen Charter and RTI Act.
• To an extent , App does the job of an party workers , not only party worker , all citizens are
empowered to participate in highlighting mis-governance.
• If such an app has user base in all metro , then we can do Realtime , factual evaluation of
governance by Ruling Party , bypassing pseudo image building..
– Making it easy to validate claims
– For e.g sitting in bangalore you know civic amenities/citizen satisfaction for each every constituency of Delhi
– Making it hard , to say anything but the truth.
– No Glorious claims without real work
17. • If we put it together with GIS /Maps technology,
what we get a very powerful feedback tool.
• This can be very useful to all real stake holders in
public governance ( citizens , people
representatives , RTI Activists , Press).
• We have covered few used cases in following
document:
http://www.slideshare.net/rakeshpsingh7/micro-
news-usedcases
18. • Such Visual/Map based Analytics is made
available to all.
• To students , grooming them for future way of
local governance.
• To Citizen , RTI Activists / NGO’s.
• To struggling political parties, trying to
connect with people .
19. Proto
• Link to the website:
• http://50.57.224.47/html/dev/micronews/
• Link to download the APK
• https://www.dropbox.com/s/l5k5e795p4knhta/ci
tizen-complaint.apk
• We are thankful to all people involved in proto
development
20. • Students : there are close to 8 Crore students in class 6
to 12th , with social science (civics) as one of the
subjects , some way this platform can be treated as live
lab for the subject.
• NGO’s: there are close to 33lakh of them, one per 400
ppl. , most of them are active in areas, traditionally
associated with government. In total they receive
around 40-80k crore of donation annually, to do the
same work , which govt. tries to do with amount at
least 10 times of that , what we thought instead of
patch work , if we bridge the gap , thus making
traditional governance more efficient and accountable ,
we will make more impact.
21. • If you find the idea interesting and looking
forward to contribute, or have any queries
– Please drop a mail .
• rakesh.pratap@gmail.com
• pradeep.sonkar@gmail.com
– Or website feedback form ( recommended)
• It will encourage others
Editor's Notes
Putting at all over learning as a volunteer for assembly election , into a product , To improve local governance.Things like amenities are the problem of the masses.One common man trying to get things done , is not quite scalable model .Their (Citizens) involvement and their number matters for other principle participants of fully functional democracy .Social Activist , Opposition parties & Media.
Mail goes to concern Municipality Department head.Mail goes to Political Parties active in that constituency.Mail goes to NGO’s active in that constituency interested in that particular Civic amenity.Mail goes to Press/Media interested in covering civic amenities issues.Similarly monthly report on status of civic amenities goes to all these above listed entities..