Citizen Intelligence Agency
Tracking politicians like bugs. Citizen Intelligence Agency is independent and non-partisan voluntary project.
Goal
Visualize political activity in Sweden, present key performance indicators and metadata for the actors on national level.
Demo https://www.hack23.com/cia/
Still prototype, live demo running at https:/www.hack23.com/cia/.
Using open data from http://data.riksdagen.se/ , http://www.val.se/ and http://data.worldbank.org/ .
Currently the application displays data, metadata and charts for data related to Swedish parliament and government. Covering parliament members, committees, documents, ballots, decisions, ministries, government members and political parties.
Limited functionality proper navigation, descriptions,content, ui and styling are still not in place.
Roadmap
Plan to make it public some time after 2018.04, running Ubuntu 18.04, Postgresql 9.6+, JDK9, Spring framework 5.x , Hibernate 6.x, Vaadin 8.x.
#Resources
Project documentation http://hack23.github.io/cia/
Github source code location https://github.com/Hack23/cia
Build server, jenkins https://www.hack23.com/jenkins/
QA report, sonarqube https://www.hack23.com/sonar/
Repository manager, nexus https://www.hack23.com/nexus/
Parlimentary informatics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_informatics list many good examples of other projects in the domain around the world.
Canada http://OpenParliament.ca
European Union http://www.votewatch.eu/
Sweden http://govdata.se/api
Denmark http://www.hvemstemmerhvad.dk/
Finland http://kansanmuisti.fi/
Norway https://www.holderdeord.no/
UK https://www.theyworkforyou.com/ http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/
Germany http://offenesparlament.de
Italy http://parlamento17.openpolis.it/
France http://mon-depute.fr/
South Korea http://pokr.kr/
Israel https://oknesset.org/
Installing Debian/Ubuntu package
Currently only build a debian package, works with debian and ubuntu 14.04,16.04,16.10
- Installing database(postgres) and openjdk
$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk postgresql pgadmin3
- Installing Oracle JDK 8 on Ubuntu
First you need to add webupd8team Java PPA repository in your system and install Oracle Java 8 using following set of commands.
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer oracle-java8-unlimited-jce-policy
- Create empty database
Below description set the default username/password and database name used for development, recommend using custom credentials and update the configuration at /opt/cia/webapps/cia/WEB-INF/database.properties to define your own username/password and database name.
$ sudo su - postgres
$ psql
postgres=# CREATE USER eris WITH password 'discord';
postgres=# CREATE DATABASE cia_dev;
postgres=# GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE cia_dev to eris;
- Modify postgres setting, enable prepared transactions
Edit file "/etc/postgresql/9.6/main/postgresql.conf" set
max_prepared_transactions = 100
- Modify postgres setting Edit file "/etc/postgresql/9.6/main/pg_hba.conf" add line
host all all ::1/128 md5
- Restart postgres
$ service postgresql restart
- Get cia debian package and
$ wget https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/releases/com/hack23/cia/cia-dist-deb/2017.6.6/cia-dist-deb-2017.6.6.deb
- Install debian package
$ sudo dpkg -i cia-dist-deb-2017.6.6.deb
- Access the server at http://localhost:2323/cia/ .
