On 27 May 2013, in a ceremony which took place at the famous “São Paulo Hall”, it was announced the winners of the “Mario Covas Award” 9th edition. The award promotes innovative practices to improve the quality on public services and to increase citizens welfare in São Paulo state. In the category “Open Government”, the project Radar Parlamentar (Parliamentary Radar) won the “Excellence in the Public Spending” prize.
Radar Parlamentar was created by the PoliGNU team and by the student Leonardo Alexandre Ferreira Leite, a Computer Science master student at IME USP and member of the CHOReOS project, developed by CCSL. The Radar Parlamentar project is an application that shows “similarities” among political parties based on mathematical analysis of bills voting data retrieved from parliamentary houses. Such similarities are presented in a bi-dimensional graphic built of circles representing parties, and the distance among these circles represent how similar these parties give their votes on bills.