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.