The project began as a research project

at the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE)

in Mexico in order to measure and evaluate

the productivity, or to design metrics of legislative activity

The project has two fundamental goals.

One, from the academic point of view

to create metrics that are increasingly sophisticated

such as, for example, the behavior of the party

the index of how they vote

the average of legislative proposals

the daily activities of the Congress which must be analyzed

and for all of this we are creating increasingly

sophisticated indicators as we're able to.

And this is all targeted toward academia.

The other part of the project which is more social

which we hope to quickly expand upon.

Is that, in the first place, citizens are able to

get to know who are their representatives.

This we do via the web page

It can be done with their electoral ID number

The Mexican electoral card has a section number

which represents their voting district

or their ballot box

So they just have to enter this number and their state

and the website shows them their senators

and who is their deputy (representative).

They can also find the information by searching

for their neighborhood or postal code.

Almost all of this information we obtain from official

sources. The reason is very simple.

It is so that the politicians cannot, as has happened

, complain about information that appears on the website

and say, for example, "I did go to this session"

We have the official documentation to say to them

"well look, here it says that you simply did not attend."

We use official documentation for attendance,

voting records, and legislative proposals.

In the only case where we add additional information

is in the creation of their profiles.