- From: Pierre-Antoine Champin <pierre-antoine@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2023 14:40:45 +0200
- To: Adam Sobieski <adamsobieski@hotmail.com>, "semantic-web@w3.org" <semantic-web@w3.org>, "public-aikr@w3.org" <public-aikr@w3.org>, Public-cogai <public-cogai@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <ec7f7949-cce5-e49b-8f09-6ff7620c16bf@w3.org>
Dear Adam, there was in the past an "eGovernance" Community Group [1], which was very recently closed due to a lack of activity. It seems to me that there is a large overlap between your proposal and that pre-existing group. Would it make sense to reactivate the old CG instead? [1] https://www.w3.org/community/egovernance/ On 05/04/2023 03:28, Adam Sobieski wrote: > > > INTRODUCTION > > A new W3C/Civic Technology Community Group/is proposed. I would like > to invite you to support its creation and then to join! You may click > to support its creation here: https://www.w3.org/community/ > <https://www.w3.org/community/> . Please feel free to help spread the > word! > > Artificial intelligence is already having a big impact across domains, > including government services. Users will soon be able to ask > natural-language questions and engage in multimodal dialogues about > large-scale public-sector financial, accounting, and budgetary data > while receiving responses comprised of language, mathematics, charts, > diagrams, figures, and graphs. > > This Community Group will bring together those interested in civic > technology, open government, and artificial intelligence to share and > discuss how to ensure that the Web is well-suited for these and > related applications. > > This new group may discuss topics including, but not limited to: > > 1. how existing and new standards could benefit civic technology and > open government, > 2. software interoperability scenarios involving Web browsers, > 3. how chatbots in webpages, in Web browsers (browser sidebar > chatbots), and in desktop and Web-based office software (e.g., > Copilot) may interoperate with one another, > 4. how recent developments in AI can enhance public-sector websites, > 5. multimodal dialogue systems or chatbots which can provide, beyond > natural-language responses, charts, diagrams, figures, graphs, and > so forth, > 6. multimodal dialogue systems or chatbots which can answer questions > which involve processing data from multiple governments, federal, > state, county, and city governments, > 7. how users can embed data from dialogue systems or chatbots into > documents and websites, > 8. how users can share responses with one another on social media, > 9. differences between static and dynamic, updating, refreshable > AI-generated content, > 10. other technical requirements from the domain of civic technology. > > Interested participants are invited to enter an election process to > serve as group Chairs. > > > CIVIC TECHNOLOGY AND OPEN GOVERNMENT > > According to Wikipedia, “civic technology enhances the relationship > between the people and government with software for communications, > decision-making, service delivery, and political process. It includes > information and communications technology supporting government with > software built by community-led teams of volunteers, nonprofits, > consultants, and private companies as well as embedded tech teams > working within government.” > > “Open government is the governing doctrine which maintains that > citizens have the right to access the documents and proceedings of the > government to allow for effective public oversight.” > > > ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE > > Recent advancements to artificial intelligence technology, e.g., large > language models and GPT, can equip: (1) accountants, auditors, > analysts, comptrollers, public officials, legislators, oversight > committees, and members of their staffs, and (2) the public, > journalists, and government watchdog organizations, to better make > sense of and interact with large-scale public-sector financial, > accounting, and budgetary data. > > Users will soon be able to ask natural-language questions and to > engage in multimodal dialogues about large-scale public-sector > financial, accounting, and budgetary data while receiving responses > which include language, mathematics, charts, diagrams, figures, and > graphs. Users will soon be able to copy AI-generated content into > document authoring software and share such content with one another > using social media. > > > AWARD-WINNING GOVERNMENT WEBSITES > > Award-winning government websites include those of Mississippi > (https://www.ms.gov <https://www.ms.gov/>), which provides a chatbot, > and Utah (https://www.utah.gov/ <https://www.utah.gov/>), which > provides live chat support. > > > GOVERNMENT WEBSITE MODERNIZATION > > There are opportunities to assist in the modernization of federal > government websites such as data.gov, performance.gov, and > usaspending.gov. > > A 2021 GAO study (https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-22-104127 > <https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-22-104127>) determined that “the > Secretary of the Treasury should add a broad website search function > to USAspending.gov to help users find content on the website.” The > study indicated that Treasury officials responded to the GAO that they > were “in the process of laying the foundation for a broad (‘global’) > search function across all USAspending.gov content. However, they > expect the design work for a global search function will not begin > until FY2024 at the earliest.” > > Such a broad search function would be greatly enhanced by modern > artificial intelligence technologies. > >
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