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Vanessa Teague edited this page Jan 3, 2021 · 1 revision

Welcome to the AusOpenTech Wiki!

Existing projects that support Australian democracy

This page will be used to collate a list of projects that support Australian democracy. "Democracy" is meant to be broadly defined here - the project does not need to relate to elections or parliamentary or government processes specifically, as long as it improves Australian society in a democratic way.

Please do not include projects that involve sharing identifiable personal data without the person's consent, voting for public office over the Internet, etc. Don't make me start a "projects that undermine Australian democracy" page.

Anything that improves the human rights and democratic opportunities of Australians is welcome.

I have listed some initial categories here, but please add more if your project doesn't fit. Please provide a short description, and a link. Please also tell us whether the project is finished, functional, in development, or just an idea. Projects already running within government are very welcome too.

Note: at the moment I haven't got this Wiki set up for PRs, so for now I'm manually transferring comments from the Issues. This will be set up soon.

Projects that perform a function of government

and could be used immediately by government for that, e.g STV counting code:

Milad Ghale and Dirk Pattinson's modular framework for STV, specified in the Coq theorem prover, which can be instantiated with different rules.

including open projects already performed by government...

Andrew Conway's STV counting code

Projects that make government more transparent

The Open Australia Projects including They vote for you, planning alerts, right to know and the Hansard Parser.

The OpenGovAus Projects including Aus-Bills and legistream.

Projects that could perform a function of government not currently performed in Australia

Michelle Blom's preferential voting auditing code

Projects that support Australian democracy in some other way

and don't need interaction from or with government


Other categories will be added as we go.