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GovTrack
Easily track the activities of the United States Congress.
Type of content:
Assets
Type of asset:
Use case
Big data potential
No
Policy domains:
Agriculture, Fisheries, Forestry & Foods
Education, Youth, Culture & Sport
Economy & Finance
Employment & Social Security
Foreign Affairs and Defence
Health
Innovation, Science & Technology
Justice, Legal System & Public Safety
Institutional Questions / Internal Affairs
Phase in the policy cycle:
Policy Monitoring and Evaluation
Open license availability
No
Ease of use
High
Website
Tags:
Open Data
Real time information
Serves:
Addresses:
| SWOT Analysis for GovTrack |
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| Helpful | Harmful | |
Internal |
Strengths• Providing weekly tips on how to get the most out of GovTrack in your regular email update • Enables its users to track the bills and members of the United States Congress. • Ability to narrow the scope of the information received: Users can add trackers to certain bills • Collects data on members of Congress, allowing the users to check voting records and attendance relative to peers. • Makes federal legislative information comprehensively available in an open, structured data format for researchers, journalists, other public interest projects and anyone to freely reuse for any purpose |
Weaknesses• Volume of readily information available makes it hard to keep track. • Inclusion of people from different sociodemographic backgrounds: Access and use of these platforms, in particular, might be difficult for marginalized groups in society as it requires skills and aptitude that are often out of their reach |
External |
Opportunities• Promotes transparency • Building better communication between the general public and the government. • Making federal legislative information comprehensively available in an open, structured data format for researchers, journalists, other public interest projects, and anyone to freely reuse for any purpose |
Threats• Marginalizing certain groups of the population: the cost of the equipment to access the platforms (e.g. smartphones, tablets, or computers) is a potential factor promoting exclusion |
