- From: Tom Lee <tlee@sunlightfoundation.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 12:53:43 -0400
- To: Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com>
- Cc: public-egov-ig <public-egov-ig@w3.org>
Received on Wednesday, 10 October 2012 15:47:51 UTC
Absolutely agreed (and thanks for the kind words!). I don't mean to dump on Shirky! He's one of the thinkers I most admire. And certainly I agree with the call for better tools that you rightly identify. On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com> wrote: > 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 >
Received on Wednesday, 10 October 2012 15:47:51 UTC