We want to create a social network for elected officials to get feedback from their residents on real bills & resolutions.
A few goals:
- Focus on official things: verified elected officials engaging with registered voters on actual bills & resolutions.
- Start local (alderpeople, city/county officials).
- Growth strategy: prefer fewer elected officials with higher engagement than lots of elected officials with low engagement.
- Maintaining 3rd party status / non-profit-esque/open-source-y status.
- Verification: Process to verify users are residents and constituents of elected officials.
- Database: Source of truth that instills trust in the data.
- UX: Advanced notification system that creates high visibility for bills/resolutions residents would care about.
- UX: Polling system and communication UX for different bills.
- UX: Sharing system that creates a natural marketing tool on other sites/social networks.
- Pilot Marketing: Getting pilot alderperson and highly engaged residents.
- Revenue: Source of money that can sustain R&D & Growth.
Brian Burns - @bbgits (Domain & Software) Sartaj - @sartaj (Design & Software)
Humanists and philosophers who are interested in the intersection of tech & civic engagement would be very useful.
Skills that would be useful include decentralized database experts, ID verification, JavaScript enthusiasts, social network UX design, and civic engagement experts.
We meet in the Chi Hack Night #civic-engagement-platform Slack Channel. During hack nights, we may also meet on this Google Meet.