- From: Peter Krantz <peter@peterkrantz.se>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:09:58 +0200
- To: John Erickson <olyerickson@gmail.com>
- Cc: Chris Beer <chris@codex.net.au>, Bernadette Hyland <bhyland@3roundstones.com>, Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com>, public-egov-ig <public-egov-ig@w3.org>
2012/10/10 John Erickson <olyerickson@gmail.com>: > > What Clay didn't highlight is that in most successful open source > projects there is a hierarchy of contributors: An embryo of a more open legislation process is the one recently implemented in Latvia: http://manabalss.lv/ - it seems to be similar to the hierarchy of oss project contributors (citizens as feature requesters, legal professionals as programmers and politicians as core contributors/patch accepters). It is described here (if you turn on closed captions in english): http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=16VnI7Y9GD4 But instead of having a single tool I guess it would be better if we had many tools spread over many domains to facilitate this process. On a related note broad participation can be difficult to achieve, especially if it requires access to internet and proficiency in using digital tools. I have heard a lot of people argue that the digital divide would make initiatives like these decrease influence of many in a society. Regards, Peter http://www.opengov.se
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