Every PDF that I see on a government webpage hurts me. PDFs are not a lossless format & are fundamentally insecure.
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Every Adobe Flash I have to activate on a Government web page or on a network like
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I have heard throughout the years that something like this should be "an app" but this should not be monolithic or monopolistic.
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Though neither should it be endless fields of siloed information.
@timberners_lee & co developed federated linked data for a semantic web. -
Participation in civics should not be an extraordinary thing. It should be as regular as using social networking & the Internet day to day.
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But participation in civics should not be an all consuming activity. Finding information abt bills & elections should be simpler.
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Formally communicating w/ committees, task forces, and special districts that effect me & my community should be more straightforward.
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Formal communication shouldn't be BYO process every time. Checking consistency & integrity of gov & records should be easy by default.
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And as recent developments are showing, we can not trust centralized institutions to safeguard our public data. Public redundancy & backup.
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http://fortune.com/2017/01/22/climate-data-trump-admin-hackers/ … & https://envirodatagov.org/ & http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/science/sd-me-ucsd-climatedata-20170310-story.html … show a need for distributed data across networks.
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Sad state of affairs that we have 1
@internetarchive, & it is so woefully understaffed & lacking resources & dev. Archives are basic. -
@OpenSecretsDC@DarkMoneyWatch@ProPublica show how we need to be able to vet our politicians. Look at network of conflicts of interest. -
I should be able to see graphs of my local governments & their connections to other govs & corporations. This should be automatic.
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Any person who runs for or achieves a government office should be considered in large part public knowledge. As should their relations.
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I am constantly astounded at how much effort it has taken for minor linkage to be made between Trump & associates & Russian organized crime.
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The information has been there. But it hasn't been analyzed or it has been suppressed by various intelligence operatives domestic & foreign.
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Also, connecting w/
@DisVisibility@SFdirewolf@EndInvisibility & other activists orgs should not be hard. Joining should be robust. -
https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/876246612695277573 … Citizen & community dfns as well as anti-abuser tech is paramount. Regulatory capture needs to be a basic concern.
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