Manthri.lk is a site being launched this Friday (hence not live yet) which monitors and rates MPs. Broadly, for their productive time in Parliament, measuring how much they speak on topic and how much off. That’s a start and I assume they’re going to do the data collection and analysis. With that as a base there’s a lot of interesting stuff such a portal could do. People right now have little idea what is going on in Parliament and there’s little incentive to actually performing there.
I have no idea what this site will look like beyond the video above. If I was to provide some wild and useless suggestions one would be to, later, incorporate a payment gateway so MPs that don’t suck could also get cash donations through the site. Transparency can lead to tangible incentives as well.
But nevermind the hypothetical, good luck to the site and kudos to Asoka Obeyesekere and the Verite Research team.
It is a potentially positive development, but to be really useful there needs to be accompanying moves by parliament to provide more information about MPs themselves – including machine searchable access to Hansard and more crucially transparency of MPs pay, allowances and financial statements. For comparison, see what a site with a similar idea in the UK provides regarding the activities of the prime minister, David Cameron: http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10777/david_cameron/witney
Good luck to the Manthri.lk team – it is a good idea and but there is a long road ahead before it has a chance of really affecting the political culture in Sri Lanka.
Hansard of 8th August 2013 is up: http://www.parliament.lk/index.php/si. Not a bad start?
Agree that having Hansard available online is a good start on the part of the parliamentary authorities. Hopefully Manthri.lk will make this information more accessible by indexing it by MP, topics, ministries, etc.
However, transparency regarding MPs interests, financial declarations and claimed allowances are likely to be a long time coming!
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