How To Build a Web 2.0 Government?

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday November 16, 2008 @04:35AM from the voting-is-just-crowd-sourced-decision-making dept.

UltraAyla writes "With the announcement that President-Elect Obama will record his weekly address as a YouTube video to be posted at Change.gov, questions arise as to how an Internet-fueled candidacy based in part on a platform of government openness can begin to use technology to make government transparent. Aside from popular Slashdot policies, such as Net Neutrality, how do you think government (either in the United States or elsewhere) can best utilize technology to engage the public and make government more transparent and accessible?" Reader Rick Zeman points out a related New York Times story about how Obama will have to give up some of his communications gadgets because of the Presidential Records Act. Despite that, he apparently hopes to be the first US president to have a laptop on his desk in the Oval Office.

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Re:comm theory by hedwards · 2008-11-16 08:37 · Score: 0, Troll

Oh, really? So, it's acceptable to run up a multi-trillion dollar debt, fight an undeclared war, ignore the constitution when it's convenient and deliberately sabotage attempts of the majority to have their say in our governance?
Because I must have missed the part of your post where you prove that those things were really just a set up. That the President isn't actually running an undeclared war and that the extra ~6 trillion dollars in debt is actually still in the checking account.