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CivicSquared

By sdellis ⋅ November 4, 2008 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

civicsquared

My friend, Kevin Fricovsky, and I entered the Knight News Challenge.  The projects they fund are those with a focus “on neighborhood and community-focused projects, services, and programs”.  Our project is called CivicSquared, and here’s a PDF document which explains all the nitty-gritty details, since we had to post the abridged version to the site.    The “elevator pitch” goes something like this:

CivicSquared is social software that helps communities obtain and discuss information about local legislation, tax allocation, and elected officials’ voting records. It will be released as an open source Django application.

Tags: government, opengov, politics, programming