GovHub is a nonpartisan, web-based citizens' forum that provides a personalized platform for political engagement. Part aggregator of publicly available content, part wiki, and part social network, GovHub will create for each of its users a personal page with information about each representative and issue that touches his or her life. Problems solved for government officials:
- Lack of name recognition
- Antiquated, costly public opinion polls
- Inefficient methods for communicating with their constituents
Problems solved for citizens:
- Hard to actually find who represents you in each level of government (to find out who my city councilperson is, I have to click through about ten pages on my city’s website, including a 2mb PDF file)
- Once you know who represents you, no good way to see what they’re doing in office
- Communication with representatives often feels futile and is hard to get a personalized response from
