Probably not - or not directly. But some of the same people that have 2 million people tracking their MPs' voting records via the site theyworkforyou.com and who, through farmsubsidy.org, got the EU to publish full subsidy data, have set up UNdemocracy.com, an attempt to shed light on the inner workings of the UN.
The UN has for some time made copies of its resolutions and other information online at un.org, but like a lot of government initiatives the data published is hardly reusable in any meaningful way. URLs are not persistent, and data formats are not open.
A small group led by Julian Todd, a "civic hacker" in Liverpool is seeking to change all that by laboriously scraping the data out of the site and republishing it with persistent URLs. That way, even if the UN removes the information it will be retained in Google caches or the Wayback Machine at the internet archive (archive.org). The site also links through to other decisions and debates.
When you do that, said Stefan Magdalinski, Tom Loosemore, and Danny O'Brien at the Emerging Technology conference (conferences.oreilly.com/etech) last week in San Diego, some strange voting patterns emerge.
The US Congress and the UK parliament have adapted to being televised by now. In the UN, however, "they don't think they're being watched at all, so you see horse-trading in a fairly raw form".
The next technical step is to import the XML data they have now into a relational database with a new front end and create tools for action - the UN equivalent of faxyourmp.com.
Will this effort by itself fix the UN? Even the team themselves don't think so exactly. But they do think shedding the sunlight of the web on the institution will increase transparency and therefore accountability.
"Global problems need global hacks," said Magdalinski. "The UN is the de facto world government. It's the only institution we have where governments talk to each other and stuff happens - and it's pretty broken."
At the very least, said Magdalinski, the site will help people understand how the UN was meant to function. "It started after a global catastrophe. Now we're heading for another one, with climate change."
Once people have a model in their heads of how the UN is supposed to work, it ought to be possible to apply pressure at the national level to push representatives to become accountable.
"We can't do this by ourselves," he says. "It just needs one guy like Julian in every country." Plus, he says, a cash injection of $50,000 (£24,900) or so to clean up the interface and publish the rest of the data they have, back to 1950. The heavy lifting - parsing the data - is done.
· This article was amended on Monday March 17 2008. The article above contained two errors. Stefan Magdalinski, not Mogdalinski, was a contributor at the Emerging Technology conference in San Diego. Julian Todd might be a civil hacker, but we meant to describe him as a civic hacker. These have been corrected.