DISQUS

Martin Atkins · 10 months ago

In the UK there's an organisation called MySociety that pulls government-related stuff onto the web in a variety of ways:

http://theyworkforyou.com/ - Tracks discussions in Parliament
http://fixmystreet.com/ - Routes requests to the correct contacts in government based on location and request type
http://writetothem.com/ - Write to representatives
http://planningalerts.com/ - Email notifications for local requests for planning permission
...

These aren't run by the government itself, but use data made available by the government.

Marc Canter · 10 months ago

Each OpenID (different accounts) is what I call a "Persona". We need our software to support multiple personae - so users can switch between their different 'accounts' easily. while still in the context of..... [whatever the app or service is - that you're currently using].

This is why we call our upcoming tool a 'persona editor'.

:-)

Marc Canter · 10 months ago

Right on with the notion of a citizen's dashboard!

Obama should build into the stimulus package money to build out a citizen's software infrastructure - which would be anchored by a citizen dashboard - which could hold 'multiple IDs or OpenIDs or DMV IDs or SS#s or whatever persona you got.

Our tax dollars should go towards paying for this infrastructure - which will be with us - forever. eg. the government has to have it's own 'cloud'. They have it for themselves, but not for us - the people they're working for.

We're the bosses and we should demand our own "citizen dashboard!"

Let's take it to the streets.

Storage, CDNs, ID services, public groups, tag clouds - will all become infrastructure - and you get what you pay for - so there's base level stuff for free, and based upon how much you're willing to pay, gets you that much MORE infrastructure.

The whole fabric is woven together by persistent IDs, persistent content and a Live Web.

:-)