Current Prototypes for Testing
Democracy is best served by transparent processes. Building something useful and meaningful can take a lot of time and effort. Importantly, it is also iterative. We build and update versions continually while considering all the different kinds of feedback we can collect.
This page of our current prototypes serves a couple of purposes:
- We want you to check them out. Play with them. Interact with them. Go through them to see if they make sense to you or you find them useful. Then, if you want, you can let us know what you thought was good/bad/confusing.
- It helps dispel the myth that perfect products just appear, fully formed and true to the original idea. If you go through Our Projects, you’ll see earlier variations of the ideas linked shared on this page. This is important to remember when working with democracy: it’s all a continuum, changing and rebuilding as new information makes its way to those responsible.
Preferential Voting: A Bird’s Guide
Do you want to better understand how preferential voting works? Maybe you want to help someone else understand it. Maybe you want to do it while pretending to be a bird and voting for who should represent you as “Top Bird”.
Then our preferential voting site is for you!
Try out Preferential Voting: A Bird’s Guide.
P-PEL: An Electorate Lookup Service
Participating in a representative democracy means knowing more about who represents you and how you can get in touch with them. But the world being what it is, many of us don’t want to put too much detail in a form.
So, we’re building a service that takes the least identifiable information possible to give you what you’re looking for as quickly as possible. Most importantly, no information is shared back to the server. It all happens on your device.
We call it our Privacy-Protecting Electorate Lookup (P-PEL)
It’s currently in its very early stages. You are likely to see a lot of changes over the next few weeks.