EveryPolitician: Open dataset on politicians

Political Graveyard[1] is the world&#x27;s richest open dataset on American politicians, and its size dwarfs everypolitician.org<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politicalgraveyard.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politicalgraveyard.com&#x2F;</a><p>[Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with the site, not even sure who runs it]

233 countries? It would be much better to organise the data in some sort of heirarchy, given having the UK, Wales and Scotland all on the list is somewhat confusing (and it leaves out US and Australian state legislatures).<p>Also, I&#x27;m wondering how the data was collected - the party affiliation information for the Australian parliament is very strange. Not entirely wrong, but probably misleading.

&gt; <i>mySociety Limited is a project of UK Citizens Online Democracy, a registered charity in England and Wales</i><p>Contributing data [1] on powerful people carries risks. These risks depend on whose information you are sharing, how you got it and your country&#x27;s strength of rule of law.<p>Britain has very broad dragnet surveillance laws on its books [2]. If you are going to contribute, please consider the INFOSEC and OPSEC ramifications of those laws.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.everypolitician.org&#x2F;contribute.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.everypolitician.org&#x2F;contribute.html</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;uk-news&#x2F;2016&#x2F;mar&#x2F;01&#x2F;snoopers-charter-to-extend-police-access-to-phone-and-internet-data" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;uk-news&#x2F;2016&#x2F;mar&#x2F;01&#x2F;snoopers-cha...</a>

I have tried reading through the documentation and looked at the github repo, and cannot find a license.<p>Could you please add one? I currently can&#x27;t work out what I&#x27;d be able to use this for, so far I&#x27;d be concerned I cannot reuse it in any way at all.

They don&#x27;t even have current data on who is currently in parliament for many countries and in the case they do that data is essentially worthless. I really don&#x27;t see the point of this.<p>If you want to bother at all, you should have data on the level of <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;abgeordetenwatch.de" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;abgeordetenwatch.de</a> (for Germany only but surely similar projects exist in other countries). So how they voted, which committees are they part of, which jobs (beside being a politician) do they have. If you can get it, even which lobbyists they&#x27;ve met with (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ec.europa.eu&#x2F;transparencyregister&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ec.europa.eu&#x2F;transparencyregister&#x2F;</a>).

I was happy to see that they include politicians outside of the US. Unfortunately there is no data about any of the politicians in my country yet.

That&#x27;s an awesome project. Some civic tech initiatives promise to bring transparency on representative activity&#x2F;lazyness, vote records, or transparency&#x2F;corruption. This promises to unify datasets in a consistent, comparable manner. Very interesting

Have you considered allowing email signup for the gender balance game feature?

From the site&#x27;s UI:<p>&gt; Find representatives from your country:<p>Expected to use the box to find representatives. Instead it&#x27;s a place to enter your country.<p>You should already know my country. Let me type in a representative&#x27;s name.

&gt; If you know where to find more data for this country, please let us know.<p>Wikipedia.

politicians are mere servants. need a better open data set on the people and corps they serve.

233 countries, 0 from my country.

I quickly scanned the title and thought it would include each politician&#x27;s net worth.<p>Strange use of &quot;richest&quot;, I would have personally gone with &quot;largest&quot; but...

I can&#x27;t believe my tax pays for so many useless cretins and the UK is still on its knees.

Thank you for such a useful project, its a good start. Ill happily contribute with data sources, also I can translate the website in other languages if requested.<p>And most importantly for those who live in countries with huge tax rates, next time when Ill protect my hard earned money that they try to steal as tax and inflation, Ill use the feature to donate it to this website.