POLITIX IO

info Politix.io implements a data driven approach to political journalism and news. Founded in 2014, the platform provides citizens an unique insight into the political scene of their parliaments which is representing them and making decision on their behalf. 

meta This project creates a social graph of Citizens, Representatives, Lobbyists and Bills (legislation). The bills as they stand for the materialized outcome of a parliaments work are used to correlate the sentiment between Citizens, Representatives and Lobbyists. As a result a new insight into political decision making is given, empowering all stake holders and most significantly citizens a) to understand the political context behind issues that are decided on and b) to raise their voice and close the feedback loop between citizens and representatives.

process I founded the project with two political scientists based out of Brussels, Belgium, the heart of the European Union. The project has been driven by the clear view on how to make a parliament's work transparent. We believe building a social graph of all market forces and visualizing the connections will eventually break up traditional we vs them concepts and dynamics politics and allow for a more result oriented instead of folklore oriented collaboration. We implemented the project for the European Parliament (https://eu.politix.io) first and got funded by Advocate Europe in 2015. Since then we have grown the project as a non for profit organization and presented at the re:publica 2017 in Berlin.