[Fsfe-ie] Fwd: [open-government] SayIt launches today - a new Poplus Component to make politicians’ speeches easier to find
Anthony Clearn
aclearn at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Jan 15 23:56:06 CET 2014
Hi,this may be of interest given the recent post about politicians.
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Subject: [open-government] SayIt launches today - a new Poplus
Component to make politicians’ speeches easier to find
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:18:03 +0000
From: Jen Bramley <jen at mysociety.org>
To: open-government at lists.okfn.org
Apologies if people receive this a number of times because it's cross
posted!
Hi all!
Poplus <http://poplus.org/>, the network that mySociety
<http://www.mysociety.org/>and Ciudadano Inteligente
<http://www.ciudadanointeligente.org/?lang=en>have founded, has taken a
big step forward today, thanks to the launch of SayIt
<http://sayit.mysociety.org/>, the second Poplus Component. Our goal is
to collaboratively build pieces of technology that make it quicker and
cheaper for people around the world to build websites and apps designed
to make empower citizens. We would love users, developers, activists
NGOs and CSOs to contribute to this network in any way they wish. It
could be by building, using, testing or sharing components!
But I digress, back to the launch.
SayIt <http://sayit.mysociety.org/>exists to make it easy to publish
beautiful, easy to search, transcripts of politicians? speeches,
interviews, and the proceedings of trials.
We've uploaded some examples from the UK that are demos of what SayIt
could be used for:
The Leveson Inquiry <http://leveson.sayit.mysociety.org/>An
investigation into press ethics in the UK
The Charles Taylor trial <http://charles-taylor.sayit.mysociety.org/>The
former president of Liberia?s war crimes trial
And the complete works of Shakespeare
<http://shakespeare.sayit.mysociety.org/>(you can search them for any
keyword <http://shakespeare.sayit.mysociety.org/search/?q=unicorn>,
browse by character <http://shakespeare.sayit.mysociety.org/speakers>,
or by individual plays <http://shakespeare.sayit.mysociety.org/speeches>).
However, the real goal of SayIt <http://sayit.mysociety.org/>is to
accelerate the launch of websites, all around the world, that keep track
of what is said by politicians and other powerful people. And we?ve
built SayIt <http://sayit.mysociety.org/>so that this feature can be
added to existing websites without having to abandon all your current
technology.
We?ve written a blog post
<http://www.mysociety.org/2014/01/15/introducing-sayit-a-poplus-component-to-bring-transcript-publication-into-the-modern-world/>
about the launch where you can see a little more information about what
this component does. Please do browse, use and give feedback!
All the best
Jen
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*International Project Development Manager*
mySociety | mysociety.org/international/
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Tel: 0044 (0) 7806 604 041
Skype: JenMySoc
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