Open Legislation, Part 2: It's the People's Choice

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Jul 16, 2007 6:27 PM EDT
Linux Insider; By Katherine Noyes
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"Laws go through all kinds of markups, changes and amendments," said Peter Leyden, director of the New Politics Institute. "The process has evolved from making those changes on parchment to at least using word-processing documents, but it's not that big a step to think of moving to the next generation of tools and crafting a whole piece of legislation on a wiki." There's no doubt that the technologies have arrived to make it possible for individual citizens to participate in the legislative process.

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