This could be huge! GitHub-style collaborative editing is as powerful an 
innovation in human decision making as trial-by-jury, ranked-choice voting, 
parliamentary procedure, or peer review. I dream of a day when all laws are 
drafted this way...

http://www.wired.com/2014/06/whitehouse_github/?utm_campaign=website&utm_source=sendgrid.com&utm_medium=email
 

> But the White House has taken a remarkable-if small-step toward bringing 
> greater transparency to the legislative process. For the first time, it has 
> used the GitHub social coding website as a forum for discussing and 
> ultimately changing government policy. With one GitHub "pull request," it 
> modified theProject Open Data policy document, which spells out how 
> government agencies are supposed to open up access to their data. This 
> represents the fusion of open source software and government policy that 
> open-government advocates have long predicted. And it might be a sign of 
> things to come as others--the city of San Francisco, and the New York state 
> senate, to name a couple--bring collaborative government into the light.

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