- From: Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 11:59:51 -0400
- To: Tom Lee <tlee@sunlightfoundation.com>
- Cc: public-egov-ig <public-egov-ig@w3.org>
Hi Tom, Thanks for the pointer to that Sunlight post, I had missed it, and I think it is a great companion piece to the Shirky talk. I didn't get the sense from Shirky's presentation that he thought we just needed to get government using GitHub (yes he simplified the history of DVCS) and all our problems would be solved. Instead I thought that he made a pretty eloquent plea for better tools for participation, so that government can pull as well as push. Democratic government's can't simply dump data out transparently and expect everything to work out--although it is an important first step. By the way, thanks for all the work you and Sunlight folks are doing to build these new tools :-) //Ed
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