MyRepresentatives is a civic-engagement platform that connects constituents with their elected officials, allowing users to find representatives, provide feedback, and receive updates on political issues. The initiative aims to enhance political journalism and reduce the influence of lobbyists by equipping users with personalized insights and facilitating direct communication. Current phases involve embedding the application on news sites and enabling public sharing of feedback to foster engagement and analysis.

1. Find. Follow. Engage.
Connecting constituents with their political representatives
& providing civic-engagement tools to news organizations

2. MyRepresentatives brings political journalism
& democracy into the 21st century
• Find your specific elected officials instantly
• Follow them so you can easily find out what they are doing
• Give feedback to your elected officials online
• Receive alerts about upcoming votes, your representatives positions on them &
give you the opportunity to provide feedback in advance of votes
• Get access to personalized insights about your elected officials in addition to
overview articles about different issues.
• Make more informed decisions at election time so you’re not so reliant on
political ads and reduce the power of lobbyists to shape decisions behind closed
doors
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3. MyRepresentatives: Beyond enragement to engagement
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4. Phase 1: Enable news organizations to launch the MyReps application
right from their site so users can easily find and give feedback to their
elected officials just by embedding a Twitter-like button.
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5. Phase 2: Deliver personalized political insights so your audience can see
where their elected officials stand on key issues & give them feedback
from right within the news site
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6. 66 Cooper St, Memphis Next
1. Enter your address to find
your elected officials and
give them feedback.
…And at the local level as well!
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7. 66 Cooper St, Memphis Submit
2. Enter your address to find
your elected officials and
give them feedback.
2. Select the elected officials
you want to connect with
Next
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8. 66 Cooper St, Memphis Submit
2. Enter your address to find
your elected officials and
give them feedback.
3. Share your feelings and
ideas about this story with
them.
4. Enter your email Send
While I think the Crosstown
project is a wonderful project,
I don’t think the County
should have invested $5M in
it.
Sincerely,
Joe Constituent
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9. 66 Cooper St, Memphis Submit
2. Enter your address to find
your elected officials and
give them feedback.
3. Share your feelings and
ideas about this story with
them.
4. Enter your email Send
While I think the Crosstown
project is a wonderful project,
I don’t think the County
should have invested $5M in
it.
Sincerely,
Joe Constituent
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Phase 3: Enable users to make their feedback public for
sharing and analysis on the Web and as part of a newscast
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10. Feature story on
TV or article
Direct audience to
give feedback to
their elected
officials
Users go to news/
MyRepresentatives
site
Users find their
elected officials
and give their
feedback
User feedback is
analyzed and
displayed on Web
Instead of feedback being ghettoized and viewed as a distraction, it’s
transformed into valuable insight to drive conversation & engagement
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11. Next Steps: Completing phase 1, finding news partners for
POCs and working on funding
• MyRepresentatives volunteer team consists of:
Ray Green: Second place finisher of IEEE Southeast Robotics competition,
singlehandedly beating competitors from 48 other colleges in 11 states.
Joey Brown: Senior developer at Green Mountain Technologies
Christine Lee: Graduate student in Business Information Technology
Kevin Mireles: Former reporter and senior product manager FedEx
• On track to complete phase 1 by beginning of December
• Develop proof of concept in conjunction with news partner
• Submit grant proposals in order to fund ongoing development
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