Testimonies
First-person accounts that anchor the platform’s policy work. Policy here starts from lived experience, then gets stress-tested against data and comparative research — not the other way around.
- Only cleaned testimonies are committed. Raw dictations, recordings, and transcripts stay out of the public repo. The
raw/subfolder is a gitignored staging area — drop raw material there for processing. - Every testimony is dated and named
YYYY-MM-DD-<policy-area>.md. - Cleaning preserves voice and facts. Editing removes disfluencies and tightens prose; it never adds claims, softens them, or changes their substance.
- Redaction before commit. Full names of private individuals, exact addresses, and identifying details of third parties are removed or generalized.
- Frontmatter is mandatory — see any existing testimony for the schema (
title,date,policy-area,status,source).
Use the /capture-testimony command from the policy-development-assistant plugin to process a raw account into this format.
| Date | Policy area | Testimony |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-23 | rental-market | A Decade of Renting in Israel |
| 2026-07-23 | political-accountability | A Politics That Mocks the Working Citizen |
| 2026-07-23 | citizens-first | A State That Must Put Its Own Citizens First |
| 2026-07-23 | public-transport | Public Transport That Punishes the People Who Use It |
| 2026-07-23 | open-government-data | The Data the Government Chooses to Publish |
| 2026-07-23 | environmental-quality | The Air We Breathe and the Noise We Live In |