Lots of governments and supranational organizations like the UN have websites, yet few are really understandable or usable for the average person. At the 24C3 in Berlin this past weekend, I sat down with Julian from undemocracy.com . His work has helped create a place on the internet where anyone can search, link, and read about who said what at the United Nations, in order to better understand what our nations are doing on the international level.
We Discuss:
- The problems with the regular UN website
- Documents, votes, statements
- Searchability, linkability
- What was necessary to create undemocracy.com
- connections with wikipedia
- His UK parliamentary project, http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/
- NExt steps
- Appeal to the public