Participa

October 7, 2012 - 11:03 -- dvid silva
Summary: 

Colombian Legislation requires candidates to do their advertisement according to several rules, including expending tops, allowed places to advertise, allowed  kinds of media, etc.

 

This is supposed to make elections more fair and accesible for more candidates, and avoid that over wealthy candidates gain an advantage. However, many of them do not respect this rules, surpass the expending limits, make illegal use of advertisement, or receive in their campaigns money from illegal sources, including terrorist groups or drug capos.

 

With Participa citizens can submit information they see about the candidates and their expending, whether they are legally placed or not, this information can help know more about the candidate, his expenditure, his benavioural ethics, and raise awareness about them.

Why we are working on this problem: 

We believe in a better world, and governmen and governants  do play an important role in this, helping make elections fairer chances are better people will arrive at public positions.

What we accomplished during the event: 

We have a working demo that when feed with the proper information can show reports and all sort of information.

 

Citizens can upload information from our mobile app or via the website.

Progress made since the event: 

We are still in the event.=D

Traction: 

Iea has been spread between our close network, and it has been well accepted.

Next steps: 

After winning, and being selected we hope to contribute and maintain the application to help make sure is serving its purpose and include any functionality that could be require to meet this goal.

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Heroku would do well, is probably the best easiest to use server for ruby.
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