On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Devin <[email protected]> wrote: > I've brushed up against a lot of the projects you mention but now need to > digest the whole effort and figure out how I can be helpful to it. Until > then I'll keep my comments focused on 'open government.' > > The fundamental principle of the type of open government we advocate is > localism. We need to make it easy for people to deploy their own open > source systems for common needs like schools and hospitals, and then make it > easy for them to connect their system into a network that shares data and > structures it for easy analysis. The technology platforms already exist in > the form of open source CMS's, and most of the components exist too. They > just haven't' been organized into complete systems that people can consume, > they haven't been documented appropriately, and they haven't been connected > together in a network. Most important of all, the story of how the system > could work hasn't been successfully told, because it was, we'd be hearing > politicians talking about open source as a solution to the budget crisis. > > We're calling this project FLOAmerica (free, libre, open source America.) > More info at floamerica.org. Can you help me use your systems to advocate > and advance this project? >
I agree with much if what you say above. We're taking this approach seriously here in Michigan, USA, and we've been discussing our approach here: http://p2pfoundation.net/Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto -- -- Sam Rose Future Forward Institute and Forward Foundation Tel:+1(517) 639-1552 Cel: +1-(517)-974-6451 skype: samuelrose email: [email protected] http://futureforwardinstitute.com http://forwardfound.org http://hollymeadcapital.com http://p2pfoundation.net http://socialmediaclassroom.com "The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition." - Carl Sagan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CooperationCommons" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cooperationcommons?hl=en.
