What Problem Are We Trying To Solve?

Participants:

Notes:

• access information
• non-randomness of participation
• scaling up
• How to understand input
  • single signals or signs of the trend/future?
• Divide (active/not-active) in political process
• Lower the barrier to entry to citizen participation in Politics/Gov't
• How in environment of political/bureaucratic protection
• Openness/Transparency of Policy/Process
  • What is Right/Optimal
• How to manage info. overload?
• Expectations for Response
• Generational Divide
• Unhappy People: How do they get fair hearing?
• Ego: Who Decides. How to get beyond ego?
• How to manage gov't money in all of this. #accountability
• Colonization of gov't by business: Concentration of Power.
• Reputation: What Role.
• Opportunity to Participate
• Role of being a citizen
• Roadblocks, especiall good ones.
• Overcoming public suspicion of government. Feeling it's a rigged game.
• What about confidentiality: Who decides, what criteria, what recourse.
• F.O.I.A.: Is it a Fail? Or a need for Google?
• What are the defaults in the system(s)?
• Search functions
• How to make it easy to share/disclose info. eg. setting up a website.
• How to decide where info and transparency fit with other priorities and limited resources.
• What will expertise mean? Who decides?
• Education