POPONG CCW talk

Team POPONG and 大韓民國國會監督朱恩光

Speaker

• 朱恩光• Co-founder of Team POPONG• S/W engineer at ENUMA building play-based

math learning app (Todo Math)• Legislative staff of Congressman Chang-Sun

Hong in 2007• UC Berkeley / KAIST graduate• All-time traveler

Team POPONG

• Team POPONG is a nonprofit, nonpartisan group in  Korea that aims to make politics easy and fun through technology

• Founding• "We've taken advantage of social

infrastructure and supports. We can pay back through technology that we are good at."

• A group of geeks gathered.

Vision of Team POPONG

• Team POPONG Bill of Rights• Every personnel has the right to understand

the politics• Politics should be readily comprehensible, and

political data should be accessible. • Core Value

• Being non-partisan• Process automation• Open source, open data• Happy geeks changing the world!

Problem statement: Congressional information is not easily accessible

• Unfriendly towards open data

• Data access is download only

• Unreadable filename

Problem statement: Congressional information is not comprehensible

• No data comparison tools or statistics are provided.

• Hard to find insight.

Problem statement: Election data is only temporarily accessible

* Website of the National Election Commission

Problem statement

• Citizens fail to find• Which congressman proposed which bills?• How many more bills has a congressman

proposed than others?• What did a congressman say in the

meetings?

Our approach

• Geeks can contribute to the public good.• Participation can be a hobby of any ordinary

citizens. And politics is a part of our lives.• Politics can be easy and fun. (Why so

serious?)

Started from a small step

• I’m the mayor of Seoul

Started from a small step

• Now, Congress is

Pokr.kr: Personalized congress watch• Follow politicians and bills• Up/down vote bills• Favorite congressmen

Pokr.kr: Open Data

• Direct access to raw data from the Web

Pokr.kr: Open Data

• data.popong.com provides APIs to access raw data

• Anyone can use / contribute to pokr.kr

Pokr.kr: Open Source

https://github.com/teampopong

Again, Vision of Team POPONG

• Team POPONG Bill of Rights• Every personnel has the right to

understand the politics• Politics should be readily comprehensible,

and political data should be accessible.

Pokr.kr: Social Media

• Introduce congressmen from the congressional data viewpoint.

• Announce new updates.

• @Pokrbot automatically publishes as new bills are proposed.

Pokr.kr: Social Media

Concerns: in early stage

• Team size• Progress of the works

Concerns: after launching the service

• Keeping impartiality• We don’t allow postings or comments• We don’t set up agenda or main topic.• As a web service, it may not be a good

design.• Automation – keeping service alive• Nurturing community

Another possibility

• Platform as the hub of congressional data and civic participation• Help existing political parties embrace

opinions from the public• Nurture a new political party

We aim that people can consume and participate in

the everyday politics without pain or effort.

Team POPONGEunkwang Joo@teampopong

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