The Parliameter is a web app the collects and analyses data and turns it into a tool for every voter to use. With only few taps people can see how active is the member of parliament they voted for. They can use this knowledge to put pressure on the politicians so they can change their behaviour.

All around the world democracy is under attack. According to estimates 1/3 of global population is being governed by authoritarian populists. And while there are many origins of the democracy crisis, one of the key ones is a lack of control over governing elites. While Members of Parliament in different countries stay silent during crucial debates, miss important votes, people are asking themselves "are Members of Parliament we voted for, really representing our opinions?", "how can we have an impact?".

Democracy is not only the right to choose. It is also the right to be informed. Because knowledge about the activities of Members of Parliament, gives people the power to hold them accountable. The Parliameter was created to give voters this kind of power. With only few taps on their smartphone Poles can access the most important data about members of parliament. They can check how many debates they skipped, how many votes did they attend or miss. What's their general activity and how are they performing compared to others. Now holding members of parliament accountable is as easy as checking weather or Instagram.

Until now data about the Polish parliament activities were hidden. Buried deep on the parliaments archaic websites the voters couldn't access it. We decided to change that and present it in a simple and intuitive way. As a one clear figure for every voter to see. To do that we collected the data about three most important parliament activities. The number of speeches each member of parliament has made, votes attended, interpellations submitted.

Based on this three crucial statistics we calculated an activity figure for each member of parliament - from 0 to 100%.

As this data changes after each parliament meeting we gather it in real time 24/7.

The analyzed data where basis for creation of our web app The Parliameter. The main assumption of The Parliameter was to preset the data so it can speak for itself.

Voters could rank the members of parliament form the most to the least active.

Check which political party has the most or least active politicians.

See which member of parliament submitted the most interpellations.

Who has the highest number of missed votes.

The logo of The Parliameter resembles the seat layout of the Polish parliament. It's also is fuelled by data and changes its colours depending on the activity of the MPs. The white coloured dots are the seats of MPs with low activity, the red ones belong to most active ones.

Using The Parliameter the voters could distinguish the ones who work from the ones who need to work on their activity and put pressure on them.

The Parliameter managed to reach over 400 000 users. To increase the pressure on the members of parliament Polish voters made The Parliameter a number 1 trending topic on the Polish internet and in the media. As the effect, many members of parliament used the app to show how proud they are about their activity. But more importantly the others, under strong pressure, finally have changed their behaviour. Today they give more speeches and attend the crucial debates more frequently than before. Apparently The Parliameter managed to place democracy where it belongs – back in the hands of the people.