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Please use the following grid to put your proposed session on the docket.

 

 

Presenters/Leaders Format Topic Saturday
Sunday Resources
Time
Peter Corbett, Greg? Quick Presentation (10 mins) then Discussion Cradle to Grave IT innovation using crowdsourcing (citizen talent + open data) X  

Apps for Democracy and

Apps for America

TBD
David James Quick introduction, discussion, roll-up your sleeves and write some code if you want Open source voting API (a Web service), built in Ruby.  

voting project on GitHub wiki

TBD 
Bob Biersack, Wei Lou Quick presentation (15-20 mins) then discussion  Working with FEC data.  Where we are, where we're going, problems and opportunities       X    existing FTP summary  TBD 
John Scott, JC Herz Discussion Technology Transparency, what amount of tech trans do we want in our Gov systems ~ 45 min X      
Silona Bonewald Quick Presentation w discussion with live wiki work! What should the underlying information architecture look like for legislation X  

whitehouse.wikia.com

budgetwiki.com

leagueoftechvoters.org

 

TBD
Jerry Brito Quick presentation then discussion The regulatory process is not transparent. Regulations.gov leave a lot to be desired. Using the newly released GPO FDSYS, one could build a more transparent and participatory interface to fed regs. X  

regulations.gov

openregulations.org

fdsys.gpo.gov

 

Ed Pastore

Mark Frischmuth

Wayne Moses Burke

Jim Gilliam

Lucas Cioffi

David Colarusso

(others welcome)

Roundtable discussion Crowdsourcing governance decisions - discussion among attendees involved in political/governmental crowdsourcing initiatives  

Metagovernment 

DemocracyLab

Open Forum Foundation

White House 2

DeepDebate.Org

communityCOUNTS

TBD

Ed Pastore

Quick presentation then discussion Beyond transparency: Crowdsourcing governance without any individual authorities. (Yes, this is a little ahead of its time.)  

metagovernment.org

similar projects

TBD

(possibly merge into above session)

David Colarusso Quick presentation/ announcement  then brainstorming session Improving the Dialog, Post YouTube Debates and 10Questions. Help shape the communityCOUNTS platform. X   communityCOUNTS TBD
Josh Tauberer Discussion Open Gov't Data: What should be the expectations? What's the real value? Share your lessons learned. X   "8 Principles"  
Josh Tauberer Demonstration, discussion Civic Hacking & Semantic Web Technology: Connecting the dots across data sets.   X

rdfabout.com

Query Census Data with RDF (very old!)

 

 

 

 

W. David Stephenson Demonstration, discussion How structured data & automated delivery can improve government workers' efficiency, promote transparency & encourage crowdsourcing   X

forthcoming "Democratizing Data" book, AppsforDemocracy

Dutch Taxonomy Project

 
Micah Sifry Presentation, discussion Towards a see-through society: How the web is transforming democracy. An overview of trends in political transparency and participation. X   CJR Article  

Tracy Viselli

Silona Bonewald

Discussion Encouraging Absolute Positive Crowdsourcing Results: Moving Past Marijuana Policy and Net Positive Results     Clay Shirky's recent LSE Appearance TBD