The first thing that "got" me interested in Obama, back early in the primary process when I was not particularly engaged by him, was his concept he called "Google for Government". And the promise that if he became President he would use the web to bring to light for the average citizen all the processes of government, opening them up to full transparency.
And we've now seen a first instance of this in the transition-initiative website change.gov . In diaries here since the election I see people excitedly suggesting we post our ideas for change over at ... change.gov.
Barack Obama wants us to submit our ideas over the website change.gov
That one was written in the Regional Train System diary yesterday. Now I have no doubt that Barack Obama truly sees this change.gov website as a viable next-generation toolset to help involve citizens in the governmental processes. And it most certainly should be. I also see that it could very well transform our entire at-arms-length/ go-between Representative Democracy into something more closely resembling direct democracy, at least in parts.
But, like Jack Cafferty, here's the question:
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