

The general goal of “Del Dicho al Hecho” was to report on the progress of the legislative on issues promised by the President of Chile during his campaign and his yearly speech. The content of the site is carefully crafted in the most simple, coherent manner to explain the inherent complexity of parliamentary monitoring. Using visualizations, summaries, indexes, tables and a less technical language than the legislature, we created a space where the majority (rather than the political minority) could evaluate what has been done and what not, what has been moved forward and what has been postponed. This site demonstrates the need for tools that promote the fulfillment of promises and work against political irresponsibility. FCI actively promotes what in Chile is known as “the program vote”, where citizens focus on the promises or “programs” of the candidate rather than the person. Thus, citizens are able to hold politicians accountable to promises they made.