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The project began as a research project
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at the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE)
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in Mexico in order to measure and evaluate
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the productivity, or to design metrics of legislative activity
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The project has two fundamental goals.
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One, from the academic point of view
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to create metrics that are increasingly sophisticated
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such as, for example, the behavior of the party
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the index of how they vote
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the average of legislative proposals
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the daily activities of the Congress which must be analyzed
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and for all of this we are creating increasingly
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sophisticated indicators as we're able to.
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And this is all targeted toward academia.
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The other part of the project which is more social
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which we hope to quickly expand upon.
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Is that, in the first place, citizens are able to
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get to know who are their representatives.
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This we do via the web page
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It can be done with their electoral ID number
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The Mexican electoral card has a section number
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which represents their voting district
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or their ballot box
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So they just have to enter this number and their state
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and the website shows them their senators
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and who is their deputy (representative).
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They can also find the information by searching
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for their neighborhood or postal code.
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Almost all of this information we obtain from official
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sources. The reason is very simple.
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It is so that the politicians cannot, as has happened
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, complain about information that appears on the website
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and say, for example, "I did go to this session"
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We have the official documentation to say to them
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"well look, here it says that you simply did not attend."
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We use official documentation for attendance,
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voting records, and legislative proposals.
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In the only case where we add additional information
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is in the creation of their profiles.
