Building an Open-Source Framework for Voting Advice Applications 🎯 Developer Release in Q3/2025

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Screenshots from the video-based Election Compass for Young People
Our first VAA is published! The Election Compass for Young People provides information using video.
Screenshots from the EU Elections 2024 VAA
We also published another VAA instance for the EU Elections. The more traditional VAA is based on the data of the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper’s own VAA. (Only available in Finnish, sorry.)

OpenVAA Association

OpenVAA ry is a non-profit association incorporated in Finland. It’s purpose is to develop open digital tools for democracy with a special emphasis on VAAs or voting advice applications.

Between 2023 and 2025 our focus will on building an open-source platform for VAAs. The project, called likewise OpenVAA, is graciously funded by Sitra – the Finnish innovation fund.

OpenVAA is accompanied by a research project called YouthVAA at the Helsinki University, which studies how VAAs are used and produces a VAA targeted at young, first-time voters. The research project is funded by Kone Foundation.

Contact

Chairperson • Project coordinator
Kalle Järvenpää
+358 50 357 2769
[email protected]

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