Every day, our lives abound in political feelings and opinions. Not just on Election Day.
The Participatory Politics Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with a mission to increase civic engagement. PPF develops websites that create new opportunities for engagement with government. Voting is important, but we have a chance to go further and create a political process that is meritocratic, creative, and participatory.
We believe that the internet opens an unprecedented opportunity to extend and amplify political voices and actions. For our political system of representative democracy to work effectively, it is essential that we have the ability to see what's happening in government and communicate our ideas to people in power.
PPF builds builds free and open-source web tools to help build public knowledge about politics and facilitate activism, with a focus on usable design and clear presentation. OpenCongress.org is our flagship project in this direction, with OpenGovernment coming next, and more on the way.
We hold these principles because we believe they form the best possible foundation in providing a valuable and trustworthy public resource -- more than just ideals, they are formally incorporated into our organizational structure.
Over the past three years, OpenCongress has grown to become the most-visited government transparency website in the United States, with approximately one million visits per month and a user community of more than 150,000 members.
Our sibling non-profit is the Participatory Culture Foundation, working to build a fairer, more open, and more democratic media space. PCF makes the internet TV player Miro, one of the most popular open-source software applications in the world.
Our work to help build public knowledge about Congress is guided by the 8 Principles of Open Government Data: public data should be open to the public, full stop. We demand that the U.S. government comply immediately and in full with all 8 Principles. Nothing short of this standard is sufficient or acceptable in a true democracy.
In addition, to fix our currently broken and systemically corrupt system of captured government, PPF stands with the Change Congress community in advocating for full public financing of elections and a new constitutional convention for comprehensive electoral reform.
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