Democracy under the Microscope

What problem are you solving?:

In current world of information explosion is very hard to process all informations, that are necessary for doing right decisions. Mass media moreover doesn’t make this situation easier, because they usually don’t publish situation or historical overview.
For information access simplification it would be great to have one place, that will be collecting relevant informations about politician – such as history, interests, incomes, expenses, speeches and their real behaviour in the parliament.
Voting from parliament are publicly available (results from Chamber of Deputies – http://www.psp.cz/sqw/hlasy.sqw?G=50985&o=5), but their representation doesn’t provide overall view. For getting overview is necessary visualise them, because it’s well known, that a picture is worth a thousand words.

Describe your idea:

Problem described above could be solved by creating web application, that will be collecting data, computing statistics and present them in understandable form.
The best way is use code from existing project http://www.theyworkforyou.com, which provides intuitive user interface and well documented API. So the project development can be divided into three steps:
1) It’s important to add infrastructure, that allows internationalization and localization. When this infrastructure will be added, all other countries will be able to use this project more easily to display informations about their own politics.
2) Adding tools for receiving needed data from Czech sources (parliament, statistical office). So people from Czech Republic will be able to have better political situation overview.
3) Gathered data will be used for computing overall statistics – such as how they really acts, how independent they are on party decisions, etc. For better understanding this data will be visualised.

What country will this operate in?: Czech Republic

Who are you?:

I am Martin Majlis, student from Czech Republic with business development experience.
In the past I have created application – for my personal use – that aggregates data from parliament voting and computes similarity between parliamentarian and coalition and parliamentarian and other parliamentarians and visualises them. When I have this data, I decided to publish them on my website – http://parlament.m-core.net/11/.