What problem are you solving?:

Before every elections there are lots of promises given to citizenry. Politicians and other “public people” tell what needs to be changed in different areas around us; what are their plans for the nearest couple of years.

Unfortunately, it is very complicated to keep track on their promises: where they kept word given, what was completed only partly and what was done exactly vice-verca compared to the promised. On the other hand, competing political movements try to play with promises of each other with aim to confuse electorate, but there should be way how to check who talks what.

Describe your idea:

Promismeter – is an interactive web-site we would like to build, based on modern Web2.0 and social networking technologies. Web-site allows everyone to create profiles of every public person, political figures and parties.

Once created, other users may fill-in those profiles with links to blogs, newspapers and other media, that posted promises of this particular person or party. Promises can be classified, commented and rated.

Later (for example after 1-6 month since promise was made), everyone may asses it and tell his opinion if this promise was fulfilled or no. Again, posting links to media sources that explain situation are welcomed.

It will help all people to keep track on promises made by politicians and will potentially hold them from throwing mere words.

What country will this operate in?: Estonia

Who are you?:

We are a small team of individuals with strong competences in different areas: software development and e-commerce, marketing and sales, information processing and data analysis. We are open-minded and have active social position, but don’t belong to any of Estonian political parties.

We are running some internet commercial start-ups, and aimed to contribute into development of a new-age democracy in our country by means of modern Internet technologies.