The CalMatters Digital Democrats team helps to start the same Hawaii effort with a civil rhythm

Innovative on CalMatters Digital democracy The project now brings the governmental transparency to other countries, starting with Hawaii. On September 21, the Hawaiʻi digital democracy started in partnership with the Honolulu civilian life.

Now, just like the Californians, the Hawaiians have the power to seek through every word spoken in public hearing, every dollar given to a politician, every bill introduced, every vote taken and more in Hawaii’s legislation. In California, the presence of this level of transparency and data is powered Dozens of stories of tranquilityS

“We believe that the eyes of everyday citizens in the social process will encourage legislators to make better, more thoughtful decisions based on what people want, not what legislative leaders, lobbyists, or other powerful interest groups tell them to do,” “” wrote Civil Beat Editor -in -Chief Amy Pyle and Ideas Editor Patty Epleler for the start.

Calmatters’ key funding digital democrats, the Knight and Arnold Ventures Foundation, allow Calmatters to bring digital democracy to other countries.

Already, Digital Democracy Hawaii It triggers the Hawaiian State Ethics Committee to determine its data for financing state campaigns.

Digital engineer at Digital Digital Democracy found that one -third of the records in data from the state funding data is duplicates. Following a further investigation and contact with the Ethics Committee, the public data on the Commission’s website is fixed. Civil Beat colleagues said we “helped all citizenship” before it was.

And the impact of digital democracy California continues to grow.

Most recently, the data behind the digital democracy power our customized My legislator’s newsletterwho told the Californians what their state lawmakers told California, voted, and introduced more every week. My legislator released a beta version for four weeks and returned in January when the State Legislator was restored.

People used a newsletter as:

• Impetus to contact their legislators, asking why they voted (and not) under specific legislation.
• A way to be informed that it is impossible before: watching what their state lawmakers have said, voted, introduced, and others.
• Resource for learning key legislative topics and following the hearing and votes on important issues.

The Digital Democracy team was awarded the Punch Sulzberger Award for Innovation of Journalism and the Emmy Award from the head of Northern California of the National Academy of Television and Sciences for CBS-TV, “Using new AI, grieving mothers discover the lawmakers in California who killed the popular fantanyl bill of * not * voting.”

We are also common that digital democracy is a finalist of trust in American Institutes Challenge, which aims to find and scale a “bold solution that will build and restore public confidence.” Our entrance, one in 375, rose to the first five finalists after several rounds of refereeing. Whether digital democracy will be awarded to the final award, the concept now boasts, as a judge said, “a strong example of what a bold decision may look like – imaginary, appropriate and ready to grow.”