{"id":101532,"date":"2013-08-21T13:26:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T07:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=101532"},"modified":"2013-08-25T03:18:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T21:48:02","slug":"video-sri-lankas-pioneering-mp-monitoring-website-to-be-unveiled-this-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/video-sri-lankas-pioneering-mp-monitoring-website-to-be-unveiled-this-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Sri Lanka&#8217;s Pioneering MP Monitoring Website To Be Unveiled This Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Sri Lanka&#8217;s pioneering trilingual Members of Parliament (MP) monitoring website (www.manthri.lk) that ranks MPs in the Sri Lankan Parliament, based on their parliamentary performance, is to be launched this Friday evening (23rd August 2013), at the BMICH.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/video-sri-lankas-pioneering-mp-monitoring-website-to-be-unveiled-this-friday\/capture-ml\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-101534\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-101534 lazyload\" title=\"Capture ML\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Capture-ML-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Capture-ML-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Capture-ML.jpg 512w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/201;\" \/><\/a>The site aims to increase the expectations that the Sri Lankan public have of their MPs and incentivize better performance.<\/p>\n<p>The politically unaffiliated and neutral site is being launched in Sinhala, Tamil and English languages, to empower the general public to assess the performance of various parliamentarians in several truly objective ways.<\/p>\n<p>The site aims to use state-of-the-art technology to employ credible, reliable methodologies. 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