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Interview: 435 South Magazine
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.
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Great interview! I love the idea of a website showing every bill that’s introduced and providing the average citizen a chance to voice his concerns on a bill. I’m not the least bit afraid to be in the news or blogged about because of my interaction with you. After all our picture was on the front page of the Olathe News and I’m darn proud of it. Don’t give up!
My roommate and I were discussing the necessity of such an online resource earlier today. If’n you create this foundation and site, we may try to expand it. T’would be most awesome.
We hadn’t considered, for example, the ability to harness wiki wisdom in exploring these bills. Our sole thought was how hard it is to find bills in writing before they’re passed.
It occurs to me, as political as the internet has become, there will be a time in the not-so-distant future where it’s moreso. Where Google and other websearches habitually bring up not just blogs but open discussions of law and politics, reasoned and unreasoned, sane and mad, measured or impassioned, slightly less often than it pulls up porn.
Have you seen Thomas? It seems to be along the lines you speak of.
I really like this idea. I live in the area and if you’re looking for collaborators, I would be interested in helping with this project.
That would probably mean that, despite having lost, you´d probably end up do more that Siegfried…
I have been working for funding for something similar to this for 4 years. Even did a workshop weareallactors com to create the basic design for transparentfederalbudget com where we created wiki.illuminatedbudget com
I’d love to discuss this further! My parents living in Kansas City so I have an excuse to visit!
Cheers,
Silona
Google “Transparent Federal Budget” to see Bill Bradley’s and Jimmy Wales’s videos of support for the project.
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?”