A "unique" array of interactive maps – both UK and regional - enable users to identify key election data for each of the 650 constituencies following this month’s General Election.
In addition, individual pages for each constituency provide a gateway to full details about the election results, the new MPs, and the unsuccessful candidates - including website addresses, Facebook profiles and Twitter pages.
The Cogapp development team was led by Greg Hadfield (pictured), Cogapp’s recently-appointed director of strategic projects and former head of digital development at Telegraph Media Group (TMG).
Hadfield, a former Sunday Times news editor, caused a stir when he quit TMG for the Brighton-based agency after urging big media-owners to embrace digital innovation.
Since joining, Hadfield has focused on how established media can take advantage of emerging semantic web technologies and the increasing amount of open linked data, following initiatives such as data.gov.uk.
This week’s launch is expected to be the first phase in an ambitious longer-term project, details of which are not being disclosed.
Hadfield, said: “The Sunday Times has an exciting vision of the future and the emerging digital democracy in which informed citizens will increasingly engage in the political process and hold politicians to account – not only nationally, but also locally.”
“It is a privilege to be part of such an important project at a time of rapid change in the digital media landscape.”
A former Fleet Street journalist with 30 years’ experience, Hadfield spent eight years at The Sunday Times as education correspondent and then news editor. He went on to found Soccernet with his son in 1995; it was sold to ESPN/Disney four years later for $40 million. He then created and sold Schoolsnet in 2003 to Hotcourses, an education publisher co-owned by Jeremy Hunt, the Conservative Culture Secretary.
Cogapp was established in 1985 and helps clients deliver digital media and user experience projects from building websites and interactive installations to next-generation mobile applications. Based out of offices in Brighton and New York, Cogapp works with clients that include the BBC, British Museum, Manchester United, Arts Council England and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
