1.
Team POPONG and 大韓民國國會監督
朱恩光

2.
Speaker
• 朱恩光
• Co-founder of Team POPONG
• S/W engineer at ENUMA building play-based math
learning app (Todo Math)
• Legislative staff of Congressman Chang-Sun Hong
in 2007
• UC Berkeley / KAIST graduate
• All-time traveler

3.
Team POPONG
• Team POPONG is a nonprofit, nonpartisan group in
Korea that aims to make politics easy and fun throu
gh technology
• Founding
• "We've taken advantage of social infrastructure
and supports. We can pay back through
technology that we are good at."
• A group of geeks gathered.

4.
Vision of Team
POPONG
• Team POPONG Bill of Rights
• Every personnel has the right to understand the
politics
• Politics should be readily comprehensible, and
political data should be accessible.
• Core Value
• Being non-partisan
• Process automation
• Open source, open data
• Happy geeks changing the world!

5.
Problem statement: Congressional information is not easily
accessible
• Unfriendly towards open data
• Data access is download only
• Unreadable filename

6.
Problem statement: Congressional information is not comprehensible
• No data comparison tools or statistics are provided.
• Hard to find insight.

7.
Problem statement: Election data is only temporarily accessible
* Website of the National Election Commission

8.
Problem statement
• Citizens fail to find
• Which congressman proposed which bills?
• How many more bills has a congressman
proposed than others?
• What did a congressman say in the meetings?

9.
Our approach
• Geeks can contribute to the public good.
• Participation can be a hobby of any ordinary
citizens. And politics is a part of our lives.
• Politics can be easy and fun. (Why so serious?)

10.
Started from a small step
• I’m the mayor of Seoul

11.
Started from a small step
• Now, Congress is

12.
Pokr.kr: Personalized congress watch
• Follow politicians and bills
• Up/down vote bills
• Favorite congressmen

13.
Pokr.kr: Open Data
• Direct access to raw data from the Web

14.
Pokr.kr: Open Data
• data.popong.com provides APIs to access raw data

15.
• Anyone can use / contribute to pokr.kr
Pokr.kr: Open
Source
https://github.com/teampopong

16.
Again, Vision of Team POPONG
• Team POPONG Bill of Rights
• Every personnel has the right to understand the
politics
• Politics should be readily comprehensible, and
political data should be accessible.

17.
Pokr.kr: Social Media
• Introduce congressmen from the congressional data
viewpoint.
• Announce new updates.

18.
• @Pokrbot automatically publishes as new bills are
proposed.
Pokr.kr: Social Media

19.
Concerns: in early
stage
• Team size
• Progress of the works

20.
Concerns: after launching the service
• Keeping impartiality
• We don’t allow postings or comments
• We don’t set up agenda or main topic.
• As a web service, it may not be a good design.
• Automation – keeping service alive
• Nurturing community

21.
Another possibility
• Platform as the hub of congressional data and civic
participation
• Help existing political parties embrace opinions
from the public
• Nurture a new political party

22.
We aim that people can
consume and participate in the
everyday politics without pain or
effort.
Team POPONG
Eunkwang Joo
@teampopong
jooddang@popong.com