[liberationtech] Report: Congress and Information Overload, What to do? Case studies

[Lorelei Kelly]

hi everyone! Here's a new report from New America that might pique your
interest -- one of the reasons Congress keeps writing such bad laws (CFAA
this week) is because the civic technologists and open source technical
experts are not present or obvious on the support bench, and not in the
formative stages of information gathering.

http://newamerica.net/pressroom/2013/new_report_potential_solutions_for_congress_information_crisis

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*Lorelei Kelly <http://newamerica.net/user/452>*
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*check out our SmartCongress<https://www.newschallenge.org/open/open-government/submission/smartcongress.org/>pitch!
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*read about Congress' Wicked
Problem<http://newamerica.net/publications/policy/congress_wicked_problem>
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look at these cool maps about guns and
power<http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/03/how-groups-like-the-nra-captured-congressand-how-to-take-it-back/273623/>in
the Atlantic
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*Open Technology Institute
New America Foundation

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