Project to build complete general election candidate website built on Sinar Project's politically exposed persons open data database and API
Open Parliament
Open Parliament
Sinar project works on services and engages with parliament to make it easier for you to access your elected represenatives and their work.
We support the Declaration on Parliamentary Openness and Malaysian organisations in working towards the following goals:
Wakil Rakyat
Find out more about your elected representative, what they are doing and how to engage them!
Parliamentary Documents
Browse and search parliamentary written replies
Billwatcher
Follow, browse and search through latest bills tabled in parliament
Popit
Popit is our development and research efforts of providing reusable open standards data service for politicians, politically exposed persons and positions held in organizations.
Case Study
"Building an Open Database on Politically Exposed Persons in Malaysia: A Case Study"
15th Malaysian General Elections Candidate and Elected Representatives website
Wakil Rakyat
A website built on open data services that brings together information of all representatives at state and parliamentary level, who they are, how to engagement with them and various issues and happenings in their constituency.
Speech at Siswa Merdeka
Infographic
Stand on Issues of Wakil Rakyat
Updates
Monitoring MP attendance and performance with #ProjekPengawas
Open Parliament Updates from Sinar Project
Official recorded Parliamentary Answers are an overlooked official government source for data, status of government programmes in detail, demanded by citizens, elected representatives, executive branch of government and civil servants.
Activities
A workshop for volunteers interested in helping with our open data and info collection efforts. We will cover the online collaboration tools we use such as Google Sheets for data entry and Slack for communications, content standards such as blacklist criteria and open licensing (because the info we collection must be freely accessible and reusable by the public).
Open Parliament Community Meetup to learn more about Importance of Parliamentary work, what Sinar Project currently does and what information, tools you would like to see and help contribute to
14th Malaysian General Elections Candidate and Elected Representatives website
Project to build complete general election candidate website built on Sinar Project's politically exposed persons open data database and API