Category: Product updates
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Using the Represent API for #GE2017
What does it do? Represent and the Represent API are a toolbox for a modern democracy. The API includes the ability to: Create and verify profiles Create polls and questions, and vote on them. View, analyse, and weight results, including demographic and location data Compare with local census data (UK only) Compare users with each…
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Putting @you at the heart of what we do
A little quick and nice feature we added a few weeks ago was nicer ways of sharing your profile. With a hat-tip to the tried and tested format of twitter, instagram, facebook, skype, and .. well pretty much every user-centric service, we’ve gone with the represent.me/username format. Here’s mine: https://rep.roundbear.org/eddowding You can find your username on your profile.
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Introducing… Collections (aka: how to make a quiz on Represent)
Yesterday we launched a collection of questions that allowed users to compare themselves with the views and policies of the, now, UK prime minister Theresa May. We’ve done a few comparison quizzes like this before, for the London Mayoral elections and for the EU Referendum. Crafting these first quizzes was was a little time consuming…
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What we’ve been working on: sort by consensus, Android & iOS apps, improved design, and more
It’s been a productive few months for us. With the new design you can now easily access the full power of Represent: location-awareness, topics, groups, comparing to other users, and far fewer distractions. We also added an iOS app to join our Android app, so you can ‘do the citizen thing’ rather than scrolling endless…
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We’re growing!
Member snapshot as of today. 47,373 answers 838 people That’s an average of 57 votes per person. Not bad when you realise that you’ll only vote 14 times in general elections.
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Can you help? Are you in a group which wants more people involved in decisions?
What we’re looking for: We’d like to hear from groups who can help us test and improve our new features for decision making within an interest group. Examples include: Businesses who want to engage employees in decisions and get ideas from across a large team Should we have more vegetarian options at lunch? Shall we try to…
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How to make important decisions: locally, regionally, globally.
Represent exists to map the world’s opinions and values so that we might find better ways of working together for the greater good. But if we’re to represent people globally, we are going to need some really good maps and really clever data manipulation. Which is why I am so incredibly proud of our tech team…