Idea: A mobile or web-app where users can filter areas of their greatest concern for government or presidential elections.

[cfc-emb-race]

Name:
Khadija Al-Selini

Theme:
Policy and Legislation Reform

Brief description of your idea:
A mobile or web-app where users can filter areas of their greatest concern for government or presidential campaigns. Throughout campaigns, the policies for all candidates are updated (in easy to understand, plain english - not political jargon); users can either view the policies they have filtered out in detail, or in a graphical view. E.g "Is this party looking to increase the tax rates for those with an income of £50,000 or less?" - one side of the bar is green for yes, the other is red for no.

What makes your idea unique?:
This means that users can review the actual policies (rather than be swayed by public opinions and manipulative campaigns), keep informed without following each campaign talk (which are often filled with jargon and waffle), and view it in a graphical form for those who are visual.

What would be the impact of your idea if implemented?:
Knowledge is power and voting is the most powerful way citizens can implement change

Skills to contribute (e.g. development, architecture, research, design or anything else):
Development

[davidnixon]

#1 #5 and this #6 seem very much related to me.
This one is focused on campaigns
#5 is also about filtering areas of interest but focuses on police/bills/legislation
#1 is feedack to voters/elected officials about polices/bills

Could we do one app that does all 3? Like a life cycle of policy tracking .. from campaign to when politicians are in office and then back to when its time to elected them again?

I really like the idea of a graphical view of this.