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POPVOX
Popvox is a non-partisan advocacy platform that aims to improve communication between US Congress, and trade and union organisations, as well as the general public on specific pieces of legislation.
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Assets
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Use case
Data source
Big data potential
No
Policy domains:
Justice, Legal System & Public Safety
Phase in the policy cycle:
Policy Monitoring and Evaluation
Open license availability
No
Ease of use
High
Website
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Open Data
Cooperative work
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Addresses:
| SWOT Analysis for POPVOX |
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Internal |
Strengths• Select regulations that are open for official public comment. • Advocacy groups, organizations and companies create a profile and register their positions endorsing or opposing bills or regulations. • Individuals’ comment are delivered to legislators or federal agencies and are aggregated and displayed publicly on POPVOX. • Provides a ground breaking independent metric for advocacy and a public, searchable record of advocacy. • Aggregates, verifies, sorts, and counts opinions and delivers input to lawmakers in a transparent, structured format. • Bringing transparency, efficiency, and accountability to policymaking • Combines legislative data with personal reactions, delivering the users' opinions to governmental officials on policies • User verification • Allows individuals to manage and maintain online civic profiles, build their civic reputation, engage friends and have meaningful impact in the legislative process |
Weaknesses• 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 • Increase public engagement • Data privacy |
External |
Opportunities• Empower effective participation and create a transparent record that influences policy-making and fosters accountable, responsive governing. • Increase public engagement • Enhancing the public’s trust in the usefulness of online consultation • Promote transparency |
Threats• Equality of access: Not every household has access to internet due to its cost. If political participation is a right, and the Internet is required to participate, it follows that Internet access for that purpose should also be a right • 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. |
