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Political Apathy Reorganization

Rewrite lead here: Political Apathy: created by a feeling of powerlessness in the sense of politics[1]

New Topics

-Political Apathy In America: In the the last presidential election in the U.S. turnout was 54.87%[2]. and in the midterm elections of 2014 there was a historic low of 36.7% turnout to the elections.[3] Out of 84.3% of the population that was eligible to vote. In a study conducted by YouGov, the question "Suppose that you alone could determine whether a Democrat or a Republican represents your Congressional district by paying a specific dollar amount. How much would you be willing to pay to ensure that a Congressman from your preferred party will win the office?" was as asked to multiple American. 55% of the people answered that they would contribute nothing to help their district. [4] This study concluded, that some Americans are not interested enough in politics to put hypothetical money to a candidate.

-Voter Apathy Among Youth: The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) Breaks down youths into different groups, Broadly Engaged (19%), Political Specialists (19%) and Only Voted (18%) The rest of the youth population clustered into Civically Alienated (16%), Politically Marginalized (14%) and Engaged Non-Voters (14%)[5]. In 2010, only 21% of youths eligible to vote between ages 18-21 voted or were politically active.[6]

-political apathy around the world: Highest Turn out and political participation in Belgium with an 87.2% turnout and registration rate, followed by Turkey with an 84.3% [7]

Consequences of Political Apathy: Political apathy can lead to a loss of democracy, Respondents mentioned it can also have social and psychological damage due to lack of personal political interaction[8] According to The North American Review, lack of participation can lead to "political ills" such as corruption and dishonesty among politicians as they are not held accountable. [9]

Interested Bystanders: 48.9% of people are paying attention to the political world but not voicing any opinion on the matter (non-voting, non-volunteering for campaigns etc.) [10]

  1. ^ Dean, Dwight G. (1965-01-01). "Powerlessness and Political Apathy". Social Science. 40 (4): 208–213.
  2. ^ "Voter Turnout in Presidential Elections". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2016-11-07.
  3. ^ "2014G - United States Elections Project". www.electproject.org. Retrieved 2016-11-07.
  4. ^ "YouGov | Do Americans Care about Politics?". YouGov: What the world thinks. Retrieved 2016-11-07.
  5. ^ "Understanding a Diverse Generation :Youth Civic Engagement in the United States". Tufts University College of Citizenship and Public Service.
  6. ^ "Why young people don't vote". The Economist. 2014-10-29. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2016-11-07.
  7. ^ "U.S. voter turnout trails most developed countries". Pew Research Center. 2016-08-02. Retrieved 2016-11-07.
  8. ^ Rosenberg, Morris (1954-01-01). "Some Determinants of Political Apathy". The Public Opinion Quarterly. 18 (4): 349–366.
  9. ^ Mosby, Speed (1898-01-01). "Danger of Political Apathy". The North American Review. 167 (503): 502–504.
  10. ^ Krontiris, Kate; Webb, John; Chapman, Chris (2015-01-01). "Understanding America's Interested Bystander: A Complicated Relationship with Civic Duty". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

DataKind

DataKind is a nonprofit, pro bono data group that has the goal of offering data services through Data Scientists to many different organizations that require them. It was founded in 2011 by former New York Times data scientist Jake Porway and has offices in New York, the United Kingdom, Bangalore, India; Dublin, Ireland; Singapore; Washington, and San Francisco. [1][2] The Local chapters aim at assisting other nonprofits in the area in any of their technical data analysis. The sectors they focus on include urban governance, civic engagement, and microfinance[3]

Donors:

DataKind obtains money through donors through their website as well as larger donations. Their main support comes from organizations such as the Knight Foundation, and Companies like IBM, Microsoft, and AT&T. Recently, EBay founder Pierre Omidyar's network donated $2 million USD to DataKind to continue its mission. [4]

Main Work:

Amnesty International

DataKind has provided assistance to Amnesty International. The program they assisted with aimed at predicting Human Rights Violations using the data they had from previous violations. This preliminary program looked through past call data received by Amnesty International and utilized the urgency level to predict where a violation or cry for help may occur. The preliminary stage was completed, and investments will be needed to fund the final project. [5]

  1. ^ "DataKind's do-good data-science projects arrive in 5 more cities". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2016-11-07.
  2. ^ Deen, Lango (2016-01-01). "Tomorrow's JOBS". Women of Color Magazine. 15 (2): 82–83.
  3. ^ "Where governance, NGOs and data science converge". ComputerWorld India. Retrieved 2016-11-07.
  4. ^ News, Howard Lake on 14 October 2016 in (2016-10-14). "Omidyar Network invests $2m in DataKind". UK Fundraising. Retrieved 2016-11-07. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ "Amnesty International considers big data to predict human rights violations". Washington Post. Retrieved 2016-11-07.
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