Here are excerpts from the announcement:
Americans will soon have a better way to access and participate in the making of state, federal, and local law, with $750,000 in new support to The OpenGov Foundation from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The OpenGov Foundation, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., will implement, test and refine an online and open process for creating new laws. Building on its existing America Decoded and Madison projects, it will allow the public to engage in the full cycle of lawmaking—from suggesting ideas, to drafting bills, gathering public input, and finding laws already on the books. Users will be able to access policy from start to finish; they will be able to read initial drafts of new policy documents, provide comments and suggestions on working bills, and follow legislation as it becomes part of the law. [...]‘
The grant will further fund the release and deployment of the 2.0 version of Madison, The OpenGov Foundation’s flagship project. Madison enables citizens to comment on, ask questions about, and suggest changes directly to policy documents on an open platform; it also allows policymakers to respond directly to citizen input through the public platform.
Additionally, The OpenGov Foundation will continue in its role as a founding member of the Free Law Founders, a national coalition of elected officials, government workers, civic technologists and policy experts opening up the laws, legislation and processes of local governments. The coalition, formed to share resources and expertise, is helping local governments across the country open up their work online. It includes members from Boston; Cambridge, Mass.; Chicago; New York; San Francisco; Washington, D.C.; and Montgomery County, Md.; as well as experts from the Sunlight Foundation, the Participatory Politics Foundation and MIT Media Lab’s Human Dynamics Group. [...]
In keeping with their mission, everything The OpenGov Foundation creates is open source, cost- and restriction-free. The organization documents all of its work on GitHub for anyone to take, use and build upon. As a small nonpartisan nonprofit, The OpenGov Foundation continues to look for ways to partner with elected officials, foundations and other organizations in scaling its work. [...]
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Filed under: Applications, Grants, Technology developments, Technology tools Tagged: America Decoded, Citizens' participation in lawmaking, eparticipation systems, Knight Foundation, Legal crowdsourcing, Legislative crowdsourcing, MADISON, OpenGov Foundation, Seamus Kraft, State Decoded, StateDecoded, Waldo Jaquith
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