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Nov
06
Interview: 435 South Magazine
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I was interviewed by 435 South magazine as one of Kansas City's "Innovators of the Year" last month. The edition was just published this week — too late to help me at the polls, but a welcome opportunity to talk about new ideas nonetheless. One of my favorite parts was this:
I'm still going to build it. I'll probably have to set up a foundation to do it, but I think it could be the prototype for something that any state could use.
While networking sites like Facebook have revolutionized socializing, Tevis is even more hopeful about technology’s implications for the political process. “Take features like reddit.com’s “crowd-sourcing” ability — that term is tech-speak for the process of capturing and applying collective wisdom,” he explains. “Now imagine a website showing every bill that’s introduced in the Legislature — then allows users to discuss and rate the bill’s effectiveness. How great would that be?”