Big Ideas

Mission
- Increasing focus on politics at the local level
- Using technology to connect people and organizations to increase civic engagement

Why do people disengage from politics?
What motivates people to engage with politics?
What problems will our app solve?
How do we make sure we are working WITH Charlotte as opposed to FOR Charlotte?

Find a way to incentivese companies/organizations to give half-days for voting

Primary voting "expo"

Event where organizations can "advertise" their ideas/points of views

** idea: how can we make this work for friends of different ideologies? **

Motivating/creating accountability

• Users should be able to comments
  • pro: "venmo" idea
  • con: requires a lot of users
• Perks
  • pro: organizations can provide some incentive to go 
  • con: may alienate 
• Events
  • pro: having events can inform and motivate people towards specific actions
  • con:  
• "Diet" model/accountability circle - create a group of accountability, where if you don't lose enough weight you donate to a group you dislike
• Join organizations, the org can see when they join events/rsvp and check-in