Another Saturday evening post about how the internet can have a positive effect on the way democracy and government operates. This one is straight from the US.
An Open Transition is a site set up by a coalition of folk including Lawrence Lessig, Mozilla and the Participatory Culture Foundation. It states:
President-elect Obama has made a very clear commitment to changing the way government works with its citizens. To this end, we offer these three principles to guide the transition in its objective to build upon the very best of the Internet to produce the very best for government.
Those three principles are:
- No Legal Barrier to Sharing
- No Technological Barrier to Sharing
- Free Competition
There’s also a video explaining things a bit more:
It will be interesting to follow this one, and see what influence it might have.
