Most of the people linked to my facebook profile know that I hold an Italian passport, was born in Italy, but left the country 10 years ago (time flies!)
Few of them know that I was in politics long, long ago.
Some Italians abroad vote by party name (i.e. whatever the party they were used to now is named and whoever they put on the ballot), but others would like to vote according to programs.
Not so easy to walk the talk
After somebody told me who they were going to vote, but for the wrong program (they were quoting points from another political party!), I spent Friday evening (before dancing, of course ) and Saturday (ditto) to build a knowledgebase on all the Italian political parties.
The idea is simple: I spent a considerable amount of (mostly billable) time to build knowledgebases and decision support systems, dashboards, tableau de bord and other number-crunching items.
So, mixing my past political experience and my more recent business and techie approach, I re-vamped a website called dirittodivoto.com that I created long ago, and started listing and collecting the material from all the political parties on my ballot.
What for? Well, as an Italian resident abroad, I got fed up of being contacted only once around every election, and seeing that the program is dustbin material few days after the election.
Therefore, why not start independently monitoring if they walk the talk?
Things do change, and program have to be flexible to cope with reality, but still…
I will add the material also in English- if you have ideas or would like to join forces to expand the approach to other countries (I would like to find editors in each constituency), let me know
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Yet another election in Italy :D
Most of the people linked to my facebook profile know that I hold an Italian passport, was born in Italy, but left the country 10 years ago (time flies!)
Few of them know that I was in politics long, long ago.
Well, this latest elections, with the “bullet list” approach to political promises, are confusing people more than before.
Some Italians abroad vote by party name (i.e. whatever the party they were used to now is named and whoever they put on the ballot), but others would like to vote according to programs.
Not so easy to walk the talk
After somebody told me who they were going to vote, but for the wrong program (they were quoting points from another political party!), I spent Friday evening (before dancing, of course
) and Saturday (ditto) to build a knowledgebase on all the Italian political parties.
The idea is simple: I spent a considerable amount of (mostly billable) time to build knowledgebases and decision support systems, dashboards, tableau de bord and other number-crunching items.
So, mixing my past political experience and my more recent business and techie approach, I re-vamped a website called dirittodivoto.com that I created long ago, and started listing and collecting the material from all the political parties on my ballot.
What for? Well, as an Italian resident abroad, I got fed up of being contacted only once around every election, and seeing that the program is dustbin material few days after the election.
Therefore, why not start independently monitoring if they walk the talk?
Things do change, and program have to be flexible to cope with reality, but still…
I will add the material also in English- if you have ideas or would like to join forces to expand the approach to other countries (I would like to find editors in each constituency), let me know
R
www.dirittodivoto.com
Tags: election, italy, result, stability, tradition
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