Contribute to my congressional testimony!

[Jerry Brito]

I have been asked to testify at a hearing of the House Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform on Thursday, April 19, 2009. It is
entitled “Preventing Stimulus Waste and Fraud: Who Are the Watchdogs?”
and it will focus on accountability for stimulus spending. I will talk
about how third parties can build interesting tools to help citizens
find and sort spending, jobs, and performance information if only
government provides the data in a complete, timely, and standardized
manner.

As a way to illustrate the concept of crowdsourcing to the Committee
(and to make myself seem smarter than I am) I thought I would ask you
all to help me edit the testimony. I have set up a wiki with my draft
written testimony on it. Please feel free to add anything I may have
missed and to make any changes you see fit.

http://jerrybrito.pbwiki.com/Recovery-dot-gov-Congressional-Testimony

To contribute, you will need to click the “Edit” button and then ask
for permission to edit the wiki (it doesn’t let me give automatic
access). I will grant you permission immediately. My testimony is due
by C.O.B. tomorrow, and I will incorporate all changes that I would
feel comfortable testifying to.

Thanks for your help!