Pombola
 Mzalendo, the Kenyan website, running on Pombola | |
| Initial release | 2013 |
|---|---|
| Repository | |
| License | AGPLv3[1] |
| Website | www |
Pombola[2] is free open source software by mySociety for running a parliamentary monitoring website.
Pombola's development was funded by the Omidyar Network[3] to relaunch the Mzalendo site in Kenya.
The IndigoTrust funded roll-out to further countries, with a particular focus on the provision of transparency websites for sub-Saharan Africa.[4]
Among other features, Pombola allows for websites that publish parliamentary transcripts, hold a database of information about politicians, and, using the mySociety software MapIt, can match a user's home location to their constituency.
The site was inspired by TheyWorkForYou – mySociety's UK parliamentary monitoring site.[5]
Sites running on Pombola
[edit]- Ghana – Odekro[6]
- Kenya – Mzalendo[7]
- Nigeria – Shine Your Eye[8]
- South Africa – People's Assembly[9]
- Zimbabwe – Kuvakazim[10]
References
[edit]- ^ "Pombola – GitHub". GitHub.
- ^ "Pombola / mySociety".
- ^ "Mzalendo - Technology for Transparency Network".
- ^ mattindigo (21 January 2013). "Grant Awarded to mySociety".
- ^ "MySociety: Pombola". Retrieved 6 August 2016.
- ^ "Home – Odekro".
- ^ "Mzalendo".
- ^ "ShineYourEye".
- ^ "People's Assembly".
- ^ "Home :: KuvakaZim".