mySociety group from UK…..does sites like FixMyStreet and WhatDoTheyKnow
Report problems in your street. Fix rate is about 50%
WhatDoTheyKnow – archives of FOIA requests and answers
TheyWorkForYou – politicians, what they said, and what they do
Lessons to look for –
1 – Combine services that normal people want with transparency even if they aren’t interested in transparency
2 – Don’t present your site as a site about data. Not about data…don’t lecture them about it
3 – Good projects can be described in only a few words
4 – Coding is quicker than consensus – Clay Johnson
Appeals
-Build FixMyStreet in this country
-Let the people collaborate and talk on gov sites…
There already is a FixMyStreet in the U.S….potentially, anyway. Isn’t that essentially a 311 system?