Bio:
Saif Aslam is a Computer Science student at Georgia Tech from Warner Robins, Georgia, with a knack for spotting problems and building practical solutions. His work ranges from advocating for greater accessibility on campus—resulting in the installation of several permanent wheelchair-accessible desks—to developing an application that earned 2nd place in Georgia Tech’s FAIR Tech competition. He also led the development of his startup’s website. Outside of projects and classes, Saif enjoys writing and wandering through whatever hallways he finds himself in.
Description of business:
CivicDuty consolidates all official sources of government information, simplifies it so that anyone can understand it, and makes it issue-focused, connecting the politics that people don’t care about to the issues that they do. The end result is a platform where in 3 clicks, users can: 1. Enter your address and see a list of every elected official you can vote for, from the Federal to Municipal level. 2. Select an issue that you care about for a filtered view of officials who’ve done/said something related to it. 3. Choose a politician from the filtered list to learn more about them and their actions around your selected issue. CivicDuty hopes to bridge the barriers between people and politics, so that everyone can feel as though they understand what’s going on in government, and learn why their voice and vote matters.
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