The new government led by Muhammadu Buhari made promises that will take a ton of money and political will to fulfil. A group of organizations are interested in tracking the promises in the quest to deepen accoountability. The internet played its part during electioneering process and they are now taking a step further towards holding the Federal Government accountable. BudgIT, the civic tech organization built this tool but needs your feedback.
I think this is very commendable especially since “satisfaction” and “disappointment” are very subjective measures. All in all, if they are able to pull off a lot, they can come out in 2019 and say, “according to Buharimeter, we performed 65%, which is enough of a score to deserve a second term”
Track promises seems to be the only enlisted tracker.
Link out to online publications to confirm the Promises would be in order. In the absense of an online pub, scanned newspaper clips as viewable attachments would serve too.
As nonpartisan as I am, i could drop more than 8 counts on campaign promises.
User participation is key and rewards can/should go beyond iwitness nods (ireport spin offs), why not engage and rewards citizens who participate with a facility like civil suits against any level of government (state or local) on account of enlisted grievance?
This is a run-away from the model I see on the Bmeter, but what if citizens could pool in agreement/discontent on state related matters on a platform and as signed participants a formal greiviance is sent to the office in question on their behalf with possibility of a civil suit backed by all signee if the office refused to be proactive after a wait period.
If you charge 10k signees 200 naira each to set up a civil suit say for lekki toll, not so far fetched. Any young lawyer looking to get into the public eye can even join ranks for free.
Winning or losing the case wouldn’t be stressed above registering civil discontent. Which is the real purpose.
The media will naturally lend weigh to the aggrieved, and accountability is extended a bit more.
A more proactive model of citizenry participation.
Perhaps on the column that lists the promises, we should have a one liner summarizing each promise as the titles rather than the text “The Promise:” all over the place. Makes that bit tacky in my opinion. Overall, good idea. Still needs work, but nice one.
This is definitely a great idea. I thought of something like this too, but will also include governors campaign promises. I also think added to it should be the amount allocated to each sector and each project and it should also be tracked to know how much was dispensed, how much got to the contractors and what was done. The only issue that may arise is getting the detailed information from these politicians.
IMO Crowdsource this project, get all Nigerians involved there might be stuffs news won’t cover well and the people would always give first hand information more than some reporters , you hear in some cases where government would say they’ve done this or that when on ground nothing to show.
And I do not see maps. You could actually use map to represent everything or most things