NextElection

NextElection is a platform that brings together citizens, activists, experts and government leaders to further push for issue-based governance and accountability. It is a tool to empower citizens, enable participative policy-making and strengthen democracy. It also functions as an accountability directory for use by citizens to see who is accountable for what issue and to review the work of our political leaders on those issues. Approach: Issue-based & Data-driven Issues form the building blocks on the platform and are linked to: 1. Territories they are present in and impact 2. Persons that are accountable for them 3. Activists and experts working on them. Insights and analytics from the platform allow policy makers and the community to make data-driven decisions while empowering voters by sharing with them historical quantitative data rather than the most recent appeasement policy of the government. Channels & Citizen Engagement NE is territory-based. We track politicians, parties and issues at many levels: Assembly Constituency, Parliamentary Constituency, District, State and Country. Once the user has selected their constituency, details from their territory tree are shown as clickable cards. Each card opens a Channel (webpage) with its own URL. On each channel, users can: 1. Provide rating and feedback 2. Post articles, polls, questions, opinions 3. Subscribe to the channel for personalized updates Citizens can rate the performance of ministers on issues that they are responsible for. Each channel functions as a one-stop library for anyone to come up to speed on the issue, or get a pulse of what’s been happening, coupled with feedback from citizens. How is Next Election different from other networks? We’ve designed a network grounds up to focus on community, collective action and on real issues. Our mechanisms prevent abusive behavior by disallowing direct tagging of users, # tagging and following users.