Thursday, December 13, 2007

Punch Clock Map

Interesting:

Beginning in 2006, the Sunlight Foundation launched the Punch Clock Campaign, asking all candidates for congressional office - challengers and incumbents - to promise, if elected, to post their daily schedules on the Internet. Lawmakers who agree to share their schedules, including who they’ve met with and why, show that they are responsive, open, transparent and above all accountable, leading to greater public trust. ...

The Punch Clock Map is an extension of the Punch Clock Campaign. It provides a visual representation of the meetings detailed in each member's schedule, to make it easy for everyone to see whom lawmakers have met with and how they serve their district's needs. Each point on this map represents the home-base location of the person or organization with whom a member of Congress has met, not where the meeting took place. The site also provides a weekly updated RSS feeds of the schedules for each member.

Unfortunately, no Kentucky or Indiana lawmakers have taken the pledge. Guess that makes it unlikely we'll get them to Twitter non-stop anytime soon, either.

2 comments:

Gabriela said...

Thanks for the post, Mark! So, what will it take for your lawmakers to start posting their schedules?

Mark said...

I wish I knew ...