30 January 2013

Transparency two years ago: KohoVolit.eu

As highlighted in this blogpost - we are showcasing interviews with CEE transparency organisations from over two years ago as we are creating one place to gather all useful links and also show the change done over time.

Here is KohoVolit.eu:

Just over twenty years ago and the Czech Republic and Slovakia were a single country - Czechoslovakia - and its residents didn’t expect to have much of a say in how politicians ran their country. When the two countries transitioned to democracy there was a lot of excitement about getting information from parliament out to the public, but soon it became more difficult to access and harder to understand on the parliamentary websites in both the Czech Republic and Slovakia. KohoVolit aims to take that information, organize it more clearly, and present it in a way that informs rather than overwhelms readers. 
The website has also developed a quiz so that prospective voters can compare how they would vote on key issues and which politicians most closely aligned with those decisions. Now KohoVolit asks political parties key questions about their future plans and then takes that information to create a quiz for voters to see which party most represents their own views.
Full interview here.