I feel the Twitter response is also higher in brazil. I would love to see 
Brazil involved on this, now that we have the access to information law in 
place.

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On Apr 17, 2013, at 6:57 AM, Ethan Zuckerman <[email protected]> wrote:

> I really like the question. I'd be interested in a related question - 
> responsiveness to Twitter inquiries versus email inquiries. There's a theory 
> being developed in Kenya that governments are responding at a very different 
> pace to Twitter than email...
> 
> -E
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:54 AM, David Parkes <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> Panos Toulis, CC'ed and a PhD student in statistics who I am co-advising, is 
>> interested in the following crowdsourcing project:
>> 
>> Pick 5-10 countries (or more) and have Turkers find emails of some 
>> government agencies (e.g. investment, development, tourism etc) Have them 
>> send custom emails and then write down the response time (with proofs). The 
>> goal is to see if this makes sense as a measure of bureaucracy.
>> 
>> Has this kind of thing been done?
>> 
>> best,
>> David
>> 
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