"governance" entries

Personal Democracy Forum ramp-up: adaptive legislation can respond to action in the agora

If legislatures could rely on public participation during the
implementation of the law, they could write laws that embrace such
input.

Twenty-five hundred years of Government 2.0

New practices in government transparency are just intensifications of
things democracies have done for a long time: public comment periods,
expert consultation, archiving deliberations, and so forth. So let's
look back a bit at what democracy has brought to government so far.

Personal Democracy Forum ramp-up: from vulnerability and overload to rage, mistrust, and fear

The grand vision for government/public collaboration is a set of
feedback loops that intensify the influence of the collective will on
government policy. But will the White House have the time and
resources to establish a foothold for a solid and lasting open
government program?