Site on Latin America’s Rich and Powerful Gives Users its Content

By: Miguel Paz | 05/16/2013

Poderopedia, an award-winning digital platform that maps who is who in business and politics, will soon launch in Venezuela and Colombia.

Our goal: to map who is who in business and politics in our country, and to offer an open source version of our platform to let anyone map relationships in their own communities.

Since then, the platform has received much international coverage, and many Chilean news websites have used Poderopedia to do fact-checking and background reporting. They also quote news from it and reuse our content, thanks to our Creative Commons 3.0 license.

This week, as part of my ICFJ Knight International Journalism Fellowship, we took a giant step toward expanding the platform. We added several new features that let users easily republish, reuse and add to our content and code.

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