Rebooting Democracy

http://rebooting.personaldemocracy.com/files/Rebooting_America.pdf

Rebooting Democracy

POSTED BY
Ellen Miller

Rebooting Democracy, a compendium of some 44 essays, was released
earlier this week at the Personal Democracy Forum conference. It
virtually - and for real (there was actually a real book produced. You
can download it too) — seethes with the hopes and possibilities of re
energizing, reorganizing, and reorienting our government for the
Internet Age. It focuses on some fundamental questions: Is it possible
to redesign our government with open doors and see-through walls? How
can we leverage the exponential power of many-to-many deliberation for
the common good? It's a really terrific collection with a remarkable
group of authors. My contribution is about what real government
transparency means as FOIA dies.

The Merciful Death of the Freedom of Information Act and the Birth of
True Government Transparency: A Short History

full article:
http://blog.sunlightfoundation.com/2008/06/26/rebooting-democracy/