Personal Democracy Forum 2008
Session: Design Principles for Online Democracy: Connecting Government and Constituents in the Internet Age
Note by Robin Barrett:
Mission is to build effective citizens and responsive legislators.
Personal letters actually matter to legislators. The individual messages coming from different people matter.
Knowledge is power is a software that enables people to connect to their legislators. "politicus" is a new email system for legislators. It will function as webmail and a desktop. Developed by the sunlight foundation.
Organizes emails by bill number. (That's pretty kewl).
A facebook application that allows people to monitor legislation through their facebook profile.
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http://beta.knowledgeaspower.org/ —
Local issues forums function as an online town hall @ e-democracy.org
Government websites don't have online "public spaces" where people can monitor what is going on.
Personal letters actually matter to legislators. The individual messages coming from different people matter.
Knowledge is power is a software that enables people to connect to their legislators. "politicus" is a new email system for legislators. It will function as webmail and a desktop. Developed by the sunlight foundation.
Organizes emails by bill number. (That's pretty kewl).
A facebook application that allows people to monitor legislation through their facebook profile.
javascript:;
done
http://beta.knowledgeaspower.org/ —
Local issues forums function as an online town hall @ e-democracy.org
Government websites don't have online "public spaces" where people can monitor what is going on.
