Our news media has been somewhat hijacked by commercial requirements. In order to maintain their presence and related jobs they need to cater t o audiences, exaggerate situations and turn our world into real-life drama. It may be engaging but it's not healthy for a democratic republic that requires an informed and engaged electorate to prosper.
A central idea of making this EASY is clickable maps that will take you directly to your voting districts and the candidates in any upcoming elections, nominations and positions to be determined by various councils who will need to manage some data* for localized candidates.
Note: Maps below of USA and Pennsylvania are non-functional. When we are ready to open Philadelphia.us publicly those ideas are to become clickable maps that take you to your voting districts and candidates. We hope people might contribute to make this project real.
Our news media has been somewhat hijacked by commercial requirements. In order to maintain their presence and related jobs they need to cater t o audiences, exaggerate situations and turn our world into real-life drama. It may be engaging but it's not healthy for a democratic republic that requires an informed and engaged electorate to prosper.
The core idea of Philadel.us? How about if "We the People" create a data-based, UN-BIASED official record of how our representatives from local to national (& beyond) cast their votes on official bills and public records? What if it is also easy to connect public servants to campaign sponsorship so we know about "interested parties" in their positions and decisions? We have the technology and it should be VERY easy to look up a Public representatives official record, right? So let's do this!
The idea is to use mapping information to make it easy to dig into a persons political options and verify the characters vying for support without the interference of commercial driven media. We are putting together the tools to do this but need help both in funding the movement and various areas of technical expertise. Please contact us if you have an interest in helping to move the ideas of a democratic republic.
*Our only bias is truth and verified facts such as how someone voted on a specific bill and the contents of that bill. The idea is this site is not for news or entertainment.
Philadel.us' goal is to make it easy to track
Voting Records, Campaign Funding, & Notable Activities*
of Elected or Appointed Government Officials, from the most local to the most global of positions. Learn more...
