Representative Darrell Issa of the United States House of Representatives and Senator Ron Wyden of the United States Senate have launched a project to crowdsource the drafting of a Digital Bill of Rights, on Representative Issa’s KeeptheWebOpen site (also called “MADISON”).
It’s unclear whether the Digital Bill of Rights is intended to be a statute or an amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Representative Issa and Senator Wyden announced the project at a program at PDF 2012: The Personal Democracy Forum, held 11-12 June 2012 in New York, New York, USA.
Please see the video of the program and a description of the project in Alex Howard’s post, What should be in a “Digital Citizen’s Bill of Rights?” at Gov 2.0.GovFresh.
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October 26, 2012 at 11:50 pm |
The Project Madison online service for crowdsourcing legislative drafting has been transferred from Congressman Darrell Issa’s site to TechCrunch’s new CrunchGov site: http://madison.techcrunch.com/
Here’s the main CrunchGov page: http://techcrunch.com/policy/
TechCrunch’s announcement: http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/26/crunchgov-techcrunch-policy-platform/
Alex Howard’s report: http://gov20.govfresh.com/techcrunchs-crunchgov-grades-congress-on-tech-policy-crowdsources/
HT @digiphile https://twitter.com/digiphile/status/262036252881199104