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PierreMesure/README.md

Hi there 👋

My name is Pierre Mesure, I am a French-Swedish 🇫🇷 engineer based in Stockholm 🇸🇪 since 2017. I work with many things, most of which have in common to try and improve our democracy ✊🏼. On my Github profile, I try to publish all the code that I produce. 😊

I'm currently leading a datalab at an agency under the Swedish ministry of finance 💰. Unfortunately, Swedish public sector is not a leader in publishing data nor open source code so I don't have so much to share here (yet! 🙋🏻‍♂️) but you can find our projects (in Swedish) at datalabb.esv.se.

I also work on a number of projects to create more transparency and accountability through open data ♻️ in Sweden. These projects are either under my profile or at one of the organisations I'm a member of (Civic Tech Sweden, Open Knowledge Sweden). Between 2018 and 2023, I mainly worked with citizen participation as a co-owner of the democracy lab Digidem Lab 🙋🏽‍♀️. All the code I wrote there can be found here on Digidem Lab's Github page. I was also an active contributor to projects such as Decidim and Consul.

Some open source projects I started:

Open Up! (2019 - Now)

Open Up! aims at making public procurement and invoicing data open in Sweden. You can read more on the project's website.

Relevant repos:

Jag Vill Ha Vaccin! (2021)

A website to list all available vaccination times in Sweden. It is inspired and forked from a similar project in France that got around 200 millions visits and quickly became the entry door to vaccination. In Sweden, the project was blocked by the regions but got some early success and media coverage (SVT, SvD, etc.).

Relevant repos:

Hej Ulf! (2022)

An OSINT investigation and a website (hejulf.se) for 1-click complaints to the Swedish data protection agency (IMY) following mass targeted advertisement by several political parties during the 2022 election in Sweden. The site was used to send over 150 complaints in one day which led to a formal investigation behind launched by the agency against the conservative party (Moderaterna). Most national media reported about it (ex: SVT) but you can also read my blog post about the project and a more detailed interview in Resumé/Dagens Media. In an unrelated matter, I also sent a complaint against Regeringskansliet's use of Cloudflare (more in my blog post and an interview in Ny Teknik).

Relevant repos:

Din Riksdag and OpenRemiss (2018-2019)

Sweden is the only country in the Nordics and the Baltic region without a petition platform for citizens to bring up their ideas to the legislation process. Din Riksdag was an attempt at correcting that by making it easy to create rich citizen remiss answers or citizen motions using a user-friendly petition platform (based on Consul first then Decidim). You can read more about the project in this presentation.

To integrate data from the actual legislation process, I created OpenRemiss, a powerful scraping service able to fetch unstructured information from the government's website and thousands of PDF documents to create structured open data.

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Other projects

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  1. DinRiksdag/OpenRemiss DinRiksdag/OpenRemiss Public

    A quick glimpse in the Swedish government's remisser

    Python 13

  2. civictechsweden/civictech.se civictechsweden/civictech.se Public

    The civic tech community in Sweden.

    Sass 6 4

  3. civictechsweden/JagVillHaVaccin civictechsweden/JagVillHaVaccin Public

    A website to show available times in vaccination centers across Sweden

    Python 17 4

  4. civictechsweden/almedalsdata civictechsweden/almedalsdata Public

    Almedalsdata: Almedalsveckan's program as open data

    Python 1 1

  5. hejulf.se hejulf.se Public

    Forked from manuarora700/sendgrid-contact-form

    Send a complaint to IMY regarding the personal video you got during the 2022 election campaign

    JavaScript 2 1

  6. civictechsweden/oppna-luftfartygsregistret civictechsweden/oppna-luftfartygsregistret Public

    Swedish national aircraft register as open data

    Python 1 1