OpenCivic is a movement and a set of open standards and APIs to liberate civic participation related data in a machine readable and re-mixable form that will allow developers and visualizers to interact with this critical data and build engaging applications over it in India.
Few days back I stumbled upon a very interesting visualizer for 2009 election data. Although, OpenCivic.in would power the backend of civic participation related mashups over the years I have realized the power of visualization. Having a small engine which allows people to experience the power of the API first hand goes a long way than writing an essay on it. Eg: Facebook API test console. With this in mind, I pinged Murali, the founder of YesToPolitics.com and discussed briefly about various possibilities and areas of collaboration to which he got back with a favorable reply. We are really looking forward use his flex app to visualize parts of the OpenCivic API very soon.