Outbox, a Ugandan incubation, collaboration and co-creation space, has secured a US$19,581 grant from Indigo Trust to support its Open Government initiatives.
The funds will be used to launch Manifesto Tracker, a web based data management and visualisation platform that leverages on open data to track electoral commitments and accomplishments by tracking each manifesto against its related project.
At its core, the Manifesto Tracker will maintain a list of all Government and individual promises made to the public. Each promise will subsequently be tagged to a Government project or multiple projects that lists the timelines, resources and budget required to realise each project.
Each manifesto’s success can, in turn, be measured by the success of each Government project to which it relates.
In addition, this simple model will allow a basic tracking of project resources that can show the effort in completing each manifesto. The budget of the project can in turn be tied back to the national budget and give the public a better understanding of how the Government is using public resources to achieve its ambitions.
Statements made by political leaders can be fact-checked against the project facts that are accurately curated, thereby ensuring that leaders are held accountable to service delivery.
The manifesto tracker will also seek to work with journalists to support with the fact-checking of claims made by Government officials, politicians, or other individuals against the verified progress of promises and projects.
Once completed, the Manifesto Tracker will increase the availability of publicly available and fact-checked data to the public for improved service delivery, accountability and decision making.
Source Techloy
