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            <h1 class="hero__component-title">Poplus: a global federation for civic tech</h1>
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                <p>Sharing technology to help civic and democratic projects&hellip; everywhere</p>
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        <h2>About</h2>
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                <p>Organisations all over the world are holding governments to account, challenging corruption, and demanding the right to transparency, and they are using digital technologies to do so.</p>
                <p>Why should every organisation have to write their software from scratch? By sharing code, we can make things quicker and easier, freeing up time for the important things.</p>
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                <h2>Get Poplus Components</h2>
                <p>Poplus Components are useful, interactive bits of technology that you can slot right into your website or app.</p>
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                <h2>Join us</h2>
                <p>Poplus is an open federation with members all over the world. Your code and skills can really help make a difference.</p>
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        <h2>Poplus components</h2>
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               <p>Poplus Components are open source and free for anyone to use. </p>
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                    <h3><a href="http://popit.poplus.org/">PopIt</a></h3>
                    <p>PopIt is no longer in active development. It was used to store and share lists of politicians</p>
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                    <h3><a href="http://writeit.poplus.org/">WriteIt</a></h3>
                    <p>Write and send messages to public figures</p>
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                    <h3><a href="http://mapit.poplus.org/">MapIt</a></h3>
                    <p>Map geographic points to administrative boundaries</p>
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                    <h3><a href="https://github.com/ciudadanointeligente/bill-it">BillIt</a></h3>
                    <p>Record, search and track bills as they change</p>
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                    <h3><a href="http://sayit.poplus.org/">SayIt</a></h3>
                    <p>Search, browse and share your transcripts</p>
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                    <h3><a href="http://represent.poplus.org/">Represent Boundaries</a></h3>
                    <p>Match your users with location-based information</p>
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                    <h3><a href="https://cuttlefish.oaf.org.au/">Cuttlefish</a></h3>
                    <p>A lovely, easy-to-set-up transactional email server</p>
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