Starting the Open Senate Project report
Josh Tauberer
thinking about writing The Open Senate Project Report. We, your humble
OSP coordinators, are hoping to wrap up the report part of this project
effectively and efficiently.
For anyone new, this is going to be a report that outlines how, roughly,
the Senate can use technology better in the interests of transparency.
It's a follow-up to The Open House Project report.
We want to start by getting an outline of the topics to cover. After
that we'll probably spend a week discussing each topic on this list
(maybe some simultaneously?), and then one of the three of us will write
each chapter of the report (unless someone else wants to, which I'm sure
would be fine by us). We had some thoughts about involving the greater
blogging community in each chapter. I'm not sure about the feasibility
and what we'd get out of it, but if you have thoughts please share.
Rough outline:
What Senators Can Do
What to put on their websites
How to disclose earmarks
Twitter/YouTube issues
...
What Committee Chairmen Can Do
What committee information should be public+online
Committee video
...
The Secretary of the Senate
...
Legislative Support Agencies
CRS
GPO
CBO
Joint Tax etc. Cmtes
Data Policy Suggestions
Video & press gallery
Coordination
Bulk Data
Preservation
Procedural Information
Updates on OHP Recommendations
If you think we left anything out of the outline, now is the time to say so.
Please hold thoughts on particular subjects until we get to discussing
those points.
Thanks!
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- Josh Tauberer
- GovTrack.us
"Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation! Yields
falsehood when preceded by its quotation!" Achilles to
Tortoise (in "Godel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter)