- From: Steven Clift <clift@e-democracy.org>
- Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 15:37:54 -0500
- To: eGovIG IG <public-egov-ig@w3.org>
I am putting final touches on an invited grant proposal that includes an effort to make public meeting agendas more accessible as well as encourage discussion of agenda items across the Web 2.0 world in a more structured and visible way. Folks should be able to plunk in their address and be told in one place (actually lots of places from local media sites to government sites) what meetings are coming up across ALL the local government organizations that serve them (with state and Federal options too) and be able to set-up personalized notification options. Initially, we'd start with an open specification/convening process where we'd involve a number of stakeholders and I would like to appropriately suggest we will consult with this network on standards to apply or consider. Any reason I shouldn't do that? Then, based on the specification we'd attempt to prototype it with some serious meeting notice/calendar, agenda, minutes, and links to meeting document scraping across Minneapolis and perhaps St. Paul. Ideally, a standard would emerge for governments to simply put out this data in real-time in XML so scraping is only an interim need ... although with 30,000 local governments in the U.S. and lots of crowd sourcing, the scraping will be the only way to get many small governments into the service for many years. The modest proposal we are developing is a sub-set of the broader discussion Participation 3.0 draft we have from here: http://e-democracy.org/P3 If you like this idea and would like to volunteer your expertise or technology talent, let me know! It will make it far more likely the idea will get off the ground sooner than later and not be another isolated service coming from out of the blue. E-mail me at: clift@e-democracy.org I'll let the group know if we succeed with our proposal. Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.Org Donate today: http://e-democracy.org/donate
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