Candidez.ro (I run for office) is my project proposal in the Aspen Institute’s Young Leaders Program

Once I finished the Aspen Institute’s Young Leaders Program in December 2009, I proposed a community project called “Candidez.ro (I run for office), easier to run for office, more informed voting.” Here’s a short presentation of it:

Problem: Professionals or technocrats in general and young people in particular, do not have enough resources to run for an elected office. Voters do not have access to a comprehensive resource that offers accurate information to make a more informed decision when choosing who to vote.

Goals: Increase the number of candidates to elected offices that are technocrats, young, or with fewer opportunities. Offer a cheap, trusted and comprehensive tool in the form of the website www.candidez.ro that will be used to promote candidates for elected offices.

Key objectives:

• Establish the managing partnership.
• Create the website www.Candidez.ro.
• Organize a publicity campaign.

Expected impact: More young people, professionals and technocrats will run for offices. People in Romania will make more informed decisions when going to vote. More people will go to vote in order to refresh the political environment.

Wouldn’t it be great to have access to a comprehensive and accurate method to evaluate the candidates who run for elected offices in one place? This is the presentation that I made in front of the Aspen Board: