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. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
