Using data to make democracy more transparent

We build a democratic guide that makes local political processes more transparent and accessible for citizens.

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Status: Finished
Project Period: December 2023 – February 2024
Outputs: External Article Web App/Dashboard
Partner: Demokratie-Wegweiser

 We want to promote a ‘participatory democracy’ in which citizens can contact their political representatives directly via a central database and address their concerns and ideas. The aim is to lower the inhibition threshold for political participation and bring disappointed citizens back into the political process.
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: Civic Data Lab

The Civic Data Lab is a joint initiative of the German Informatics Society, CorrelAid, and the German Caritas Association – funded as a Civic Coding anchor project by the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women, and Youth. The Civic Data Lab supports organized and non-organized actors in civil society to better achieve common-good-oriented goals through the use of data – by collecting, organizing, and structuring their data, analyzing and linking it, reusing it for their target groups, making it available to others, and supplementing it with available data. Data ABOUT people is reused FOR them. BY civil society, FOR civil society. For the common good. By and for EVERYONE. (Source: https://civic-data.de/)
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This data project was implemented as part of the Civic Data Labs (CDL). As a consortium partner in the CDL, CorrelAid was primarily responsible for designing the project and overseeing its implementation by external service providers. The Civic Data Lab Blog provides more information about the participating organization and its data challenge, as well as the solution approach and the impact of the project.