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Civic Engagement × Data × AI
What if we evaluated politicians by what they actually do, rather than what they promise?
In our professional lives, we expect people to be evaluated based on their contributions, decisions, and results. Yet when choosing political representatives, we often rely on promises, media appearances, party affiliations, or personal impressions.
So I started wondering: what if we evaluated politicians more like professionals applying for a job? What have they accomplished? How meaningful are their contributions? What decisions have they made, and how have those decisions affected the people they represent? That question became the starting point for VotAm.eu.
I believe a healthier democracy starts with better-informed citizens. My goal is to make political activity more transparent, understandable, and accessible, helping people look beyond political rhetoric and form their own opinions based on evidence.
I started with the Romanian Parliament, exploring how publicly available information and AI could help analyze parliamentary debates, legislative initiatives, voting records, and the actual contributions of elected representatives. I’d like to expand this work to all political roles in Romania, including mayors, local and county councillors, ministers, and the president. VotAm.eu has so far been developed for Romania, but this vision could be implemented in any country, adapted to its institutions, laws, and available public data.
But the ambition goes beyond evaluating politicians. I’m also exploring ways to make legislation easier to understand and encourage civic education. One idea is CiviQ, an interactive civic knowledge test designed to challenge what we think we know about democracy, institutions, rights, and civic responsibilities — while helping us learn along the way. Ultimately, I want to help people become not just better-informed voters, but more curious, critical, and engaged citizens.
The goal isn’t to tell people whom to vote for. It’s to help them make that decision for themselves.
One of the most interesting challenges has been figuring out how to evaluate political activity fairly. While experimenting with AI-assisted analysis, I discovered how easily even my own political opinions could influence the criteria I considered reasonable.
It reinforced something I believe strongly: meaningful evaluation requires transparent criteria, verifiable evidence, and a willingness to question our own assumptions. AI makes it possible to analyze information at a scale that would otherwise be impractical. But it doesn’t eliminate bias or replace human judgment.
For me, VotAm.eu is as much an experiment in critical thinking and intellectual honesty as it is a technology project.
Explore the project: VotAm.eu
Article in Romanian · On the Vladiverse blog
The story behind the project, my first experiments with AI-assisted parliamentary analysis, and what I learned about political evaluation, objectivity, and my own biases.
My vision for VotAm.eu goes well beyond analyzing parliamentary activity. Covering political representatives and institutions across an entire country would require a tremendous amount of work, particularly collecting, verifying, and keeping information up to date.
I believe this is something that could only reach its full potential through collaboration. I'd love to connect with people willing to contribute their time, expertise, or ideas.
Help build and maintain reliable profiles of politicians, institutions, and their activities. This includes finding sources, filling information gaps, checking accuracy, and keeping data up to date. No technical background required.
Share relevant sources, questions worth investigating, or ideas for making political activity and civic institutions easier to understand.
Help verify AI-generated analyses, provide legal or political context, identify mistakes or biases, and improve the evaluation methodology.
Turn public information into accessible articles, investigations, explanations of legislation, or educational material that helps citizens better understand political decisions.
Contribute to software development, data collection and processing, AI analysis, visualizations, UX, or other technical challenges involved in scaling the project.
Whether you can contribute regularly, occasionally, or simply have an idea worth exploring, I'd love to hear from you.
SHARED VALUES. MEANINGFUL COLLABORATION.
Whether you'd like to volunteer, contribute your expertise, challenge an idea, or explore a new direction for the project, I'd love to hear from you.
Let's talk about VotAm.eu