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If you are running on a open-government campaign for office, here are some suggestions:

Steven Clift wrote:

If I were running for local office, I'd promise an new city ordinance that required:

1. All public meeting notices, agendas, and meeting documents must be placed online at the same time they are distributed to elected officials. poker en ligne

2. All public meetings must be digitally recorded (audio is fine) and placed online within 24 hours of the meeting. Council meetings must also be webcast live.

3. An official e-petitioning system that can force the council to discuss certain issues at a certain threshold and take public comment.

4. All ethnics and campaign finaces disclosures must be posted online.

5. Any e-mail/public document sent to a quorum of elected officials by city staff must automatically must be posted online automatically.

6. Every council member will be supported with a combined e-mail news/blog tool for use in governance (that may not be used for election purposes and is transfer to the next council member (assuming districts).

7. Detailed government spending information posted online on a monthly basis (not just proposed budget or government staff salaries (which the media tends to gather a post)).

8. Require every e-mail received by the city to be confirmed with a copy of what was received, given a tracking number, and be responded to within two weeks.

9. Create a system for the public to comment on public meeting agenda items (stay tuned!).

10. Add a city presence on popular social networking sites.

Thomas Lord responds

As the federal gov't has started to learn, that creates conflicts between TOS agreements and law. It also creates an odd and arguably unethical endorsement of certain services by government.

11. Set up e-mail alerts about new content online and personalized keyword and geographic relevancy trackers so people can get timely notification of information that matters to them.

Thomas Lord responds

I would take at least that bit out. I am pretty sure that, in many cases, the police would quite correctly have strong objections to any such idea. Or, perhaps you can see a way to arrange so that organized criminals can't read the blotter in

real time and/or have to issue real time reports of all of their own activities. And also how not to overburden forces with new bureaucratic requirements when they should be busy patrolling and such.

Josh Tauberer wrote:

A pro-open campaign should include three aspects:

• Making more information legally public by strengthening FOIA-type laws. There's probably something good here: http://openthegovernment.org/article/subarchive/19/

• Making public information more available by following open data best practices. For that I'll just plug my own monograph:

http://razor.occams.info/pubdocs/opendataciviccapital.html

• Making government interaction more open by strengthening its community interaction and employing open APIs for government services. I can't think of any good references for this, although (iirc) it's something Tom Steinberg has written about (but where?).

Tom Steinberg subsequently wrote a post finding nine categories of transparency tools.