Re: Open Government Data and Voter Decision Support Technology

 I have a dream ...  for the "next National Elections" that voter registrations can be a (FISH - First In, Still Here) inventory. In Texas early voting started this morning so time is short(!) ... except it isn't.
StratML doesn't think so (Goal 7: Analysis & Goal 10: Results Auditing & Validation) and neither do Federal Agencies unconcerned with balance in partisan politics as measured tit-for-tat and Tweet-by-Tweet.
Any number ofFederal Agency mapping efforts demonstrate the underlying map layer(State Units, County Unit Subdivisions).  All Click Maps are 'Winner Take All'.


CDCStyle Maps (Epidemiology)

NOAAStyle Maps (FisheryResources)

FEMAStyle Maps (Hurricane Relief)

Non-GovernmentOrganization (NGO) Style Maps - American Red Cross

FederalCourt Style Maps

If Campaign Donor Contact Information (Address, Zip Code, Phone Numbers, misc. "Profile") data bases do not include county of registration then between this campaign and the next, Federal Agency style mapping efforts require heroic efforts (by which I mean high billable hours) to produce.  "Never Again!" is the wisest campaign boot-strap strategy.  Collecting generic profile data from scratch is at best selfish hoarding and at worst something the previous candidate from "our party" did not do.

--Gannon



    On Saturday, October 20, 2018, 10:16:03 AM CDT, Owen Ambur <Owen.Ambur@verizon.net> wrote:  
 
 
Adam, one of the use cases for the StratML standard is:  Goal 9: Candidates for Elective Office - Publish the issue statements of candidates for elective office as performance plans on the Web in open, standard, machine-readable format.

  

I’ve begun to demonstrate that concept at http://ambur.net/#Candidates

  

However, before voters can realize the benefits, it will be necessary for value-added intermediaries to provide query, analytical, strategic alignment and relationship-building services leveraging such data.  I hope to engage partners in helping to build such services.  See, for example, http://aboutthem.info/ 

  

With respect to open government data, besides Data.gov, among the best efforts of the U.S. federal government thus far are SEC’s adoption of XBRL and the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM), based on the W3C’s XML Recommendation but now also with support for JSON.  

  

In section 10 of the GPRA Modernization Act (GPRAMA), Congress also mandated for Federal agencies what is a good practice for agencies at all levels of government worldwide.  Toward broader implementation of that practice, a good place to build upon the progress thus far would be to render the Open Government Partnership (OGP) national action plans (NAPs) in open, standard, machine-readable StratML format.  https://www.opengovpartnership.org/tag/nap 

  

With reference to voting, since more of the same is unlikely to deliver a different result, among the long-term, more visionary aims of the StratML standard is to disintermediate politics and politicians from as many functions as possible – by enabling those with common and complementary objectives to work more efficiently and effectively together to achieve them.  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fighting-political-polarization-owen-ambur/

  

Owen Ambur

Chair, StratML Working Group

Co-Chair Emeritus, xml.gov CoP

Webmaster, FIRM

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From: Adam Sobieski <adamsobieski@hotmail.com> 
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2018 3:38 AM
To: public-opengov@w3.org
Subject: Open Government Data and Voter Decision Support Technology

  

W3C Open Government Community Group,

  

I think that there is something to Web-based and desktop-based information dashboards and decision support systems for voters. Such decision support systems could aggregate election news articles and provide data visualization with respect to local, state and national elections.

  

I recently started some discussions about a new contest pertaining to the design of voter decision support systems. I indicated that there should be a well-publicized and periodic, e.g. annual, contest of designs and design concepts. I indicated that we would want to facilitate the best new designs and design concepts with advancements to Web standards including news article metadata and schema.

  

We could also facilitate the best new ideas with advancements to open government data, with advancements to data.gov .

  

  

Best regards,

Adam Sobieski

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