Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Elevator Pitch
Many times citizens don't know about important local legislation that will affect their lives until it's too late to act. This happens because newspapers often don't have space to follow every local ordinance and zoning variance. This searchable feature will allow people to enter their address and search for upcoming laws, ordinances and legislation that will affect them. The technology would be a perfect addition to a newspaper's website.
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I think this is a great idea. I am all for transparent government and this idea kind of goes along with my pitch to redo a federal website. I wonder if there is a specific government site you want to redo or if you want to start from scratch.
ReplyDeleteSorry, I just read your last line that said this will be added to a newspaper site. I still like the idea!
ReplyDeleteI like it - would check it every week. You are right - it is hard to keep in the local debate and I can't make all city council meetings. If you develop this as a good platform, you could sell the service to local papers to add in to their websites. You can pull from public info databases and build the IT to network it.
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