Comments on: Enterprise 2.0 Camp

By: The Future Of The House Of Representatives at connectingthedots

The Future Of The House Of Representatives at connecting*the*dots — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:41:58 +0000

[...] I left a comment in the thread that might sound radical, but I think it would be a great way to up the degree of transparent discourse in government. [...]

By: Tom Purves

Tom Purves — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 21:41:26 +0000

Thanks for the shout out Mark! And you are right, Epicure can’t hold us

and as a note to those who may have signed up earlier, thanks to the huge response, the venue has changed from Epicure Cafe to the much larger Gladstone Hotel (another 2km west on queen st W).

By: Puneet Gupta

Puneet Gupta — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 02:06:12 +0000

Wish we – Connectbeam.com, could be there. We are committed for another event during this time. We are based out of Bay Area California, and at least one of us is a Canadian citizen from Toronto area.

We are finding Social Bookmarking intersecting with enterprise search and Intranet portals is hitting a sweet spot for lot of enterprises. I feel gov stands to benefit just as well.

By: we can draw politicians into our 2.0 flytrap… at connectingthedots

we can draw politicians into our 2.0 flytrap… at connecting*the*dots — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:47:01 +0000

[...] Mark Kuznicki and Tom Purves picked up on a line I dropped in a few posts a while back; how we should “2.0 the hell out of government.” I’ve expanded on my original thinking in a comment on Remarkk! [...]

By: sean coon

sean coon — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:32:49 +0000

i completely agree, mark, but if we don’t start rallying around the possibilities of generating a transparent and accountable government, as you hinted towards, they’re sure as hell not going to make the first move.

the great thing about the 2.0 meme is that it essentially deals with sharing data and information, freeing it up from previous constructs and twisting it into interfaces that produce knowledge.

political blogs and aggregators have been doing that for a while now, but the efforts are still very decentralized and meta-data, content, feeds, etc. aren’t being captured and twisted as i’m suggesting.

now… imagine a domain that not only present political blog posts, but one that’s grounded in an interface that presents, say, the 435 seats in congress and 100 in the senate as the centerpiece. imagine developing a digg-like interface, where people can vote on latest news/posts streaming in about each politician, his/her recent voting record, latest multimedia (youtube, etc.), pork spending, basically, anything that contextualizes the job of the politician… and then turn that into a pagerank-ish algorithm for the “strength” of individual politicians.

of course, we’d want to mandate user participation with home address checks; maybe an advanced form of open id?

once we get politicians worried about their “politicrati” popularity like so many bloggers do with technorati rank, imagine how that would begin to shift their attentiveness (i mean, what congressman would want to be rated 435 out of 435? or even 175 of 435?)

we could even create an algorithm to display how far politicians stray from representing the desires of their constituents based on issue and voting polls in their districts/states… and then give the politician the podium (within the interface, of course) to explain why they *led* in that direction, instead of following the popular consensus of the voters.

so many possibilities…