popong ccw talk
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Team POPONG and 大韓民國國會監督朱恩光
Speaker
• 朱恩光• Co-founder of Team POPONG• S/W engineer at ENUMA building play-based
math learning app (Todo Math)• Legislative staff of Congressman Chang-Sun
Hong in 2007• UC Berkeley / KAIST graduate• All-time traveler
Team POPONG
• Team POPONG is a nonprofit, nonpartisan group in Korea that aims to make politics easy and fun through technology
• Founding• "We've taken advantage of social
infrastructure and supports. We can pay back through technology that we are good at."
• A group of geeks gathered.
Vision of Team POPONG
• Team POPONG Bill of Rights• Every personnel has the right to understand
the politics• Politics should be readily comprehensible, and
political data should be accessible. • Core Value
• Being non-partisan• Process automation• Open source, open data• Happy geeks changing the world!
Problem statement: Congressional information is not easily accessible
• Unfriendly towards open data
• Data access is download only
• Unreadable filename
Problem statement: Congressional information is not comprehensible
• No data comparison tools or statistics are provided.
• Hard to find insight.
Problem statement: Election data is only temporarily accessible
* Website of the National Election Commission
Problem statement
• Citizens fail to find• Which congressman proposed which bills?• How many more bills has a congressman
proposed than others?• What did a congressman say in the
meetings?
Our approach
• Geeks can contribute to the public good.• Participation can be a hobby of any ordinary
citizens. And politics is a part of our lives.• Politics can be easy and fun. (Why so
serious?)
Started from a small step
• I’m the mayor of Seoul
Started from a small step
• Now, Congress is
Pokr.kr: Personalized congress watch• Follow politicians and bills• Up/down vote bills• Favorite congressmen
Pokr.kr: Open Data
• Direct access to raw data from the Web
• Anyone can use / contribute to pokr.kr
Pokr.kr: Open Source
https://github.com/teampopong
Again, Vision of Team POPONG
• Team POPONG Bill of Rights• Every personnel has the right to
understand the politics• Politics should be readily comprehensible,
and political data should be accessible.
Pokr.kr: Social Media
• Introduce congressmen from the congressional data viewpoint.
• Announce new updates.
• @Pokrbot automatically publishes as new bills are proposed.
Pokr.kr: Social Media
Concerns: in early stage
• Team size• Progress of the works
Concerns: after launching the service
• Keeping impartiality• We don’t allow postings or comments• We don’t set up agenda or main topic.• As a web service, it may not be a good
design.• Automation – keeping service alive• Nurturing community
Another possibility
• Platform as the hub of congressional data and civic participation• Help existing political parties embrace
opinions from the public• Nurture a new political party
We aim that people can consume and participate in
the everyday politics without pain or effort.
Team POPONGEunkwang Joo@teampopong