Active Citizenship via the Web: Trupoli.com's approach

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Johannes Zumpe

Active Citizenship via the Web: Trupoli.com's approach

Trupoli provides an internet platform and a community for politics, enabling bi-directional mass communication between the people as the sovereign and politicians. On the platform users can share and generate content with regards to politics, relieving Trupoli of the need to provide own content.

Trupoli provides three main features, all of these on the federal, state and local levels alike:

Information: Current developments in politics, providing a quick overview over top statements, politicians, topics and regions.

Rating: User generated rating of politicians' statements, which provides a clear feedback message from the user to the politician. Ratings on statements are aggregated on politicians, allowing a quick assessment, based on conent, not subjective popularity. Activism: The social community features allow the connection of users to form politicial movements, enbaling them to push their political agenda.

Trupoli’s main idea is to create transparent politics, to revive democracy, bringing it closer to the people and enable a government by the people. Politicians and Parties will be monitored. Actions and more particularly statements and promises are documented and rated in real-time through Trupoli. Mass media shall be deprived of their power to make or break politicians, political ideas and movements. -> user generated relevance -> user generated feedback -> not mass media

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