I posted earlier this year about the greater possibilities for participatory democracy offered by the Internet.
Well, I've only just come accross the US site PublicMarkup.org but it seems to bring the technology of Part. Dem. one step closer.
The site claims to be:
"an ongoing experiment in preparing legislation more inclusively by opening bills to online, public review.
PublicMarkup.org gives you the opportunity to review and comment on proposed bills before they are even introduced—or while they are pending—in Congress."
It is another great idea by the Sunlight Foundation which gets me thinking, is there a UK equivalent?
Technorati tags: Public Markup, participatory democracy, Sunlight Foundation
Its been around for a couple of years, but you cannot place comment on it.
http://services.parliament.uk/bills/
Posted by: Ian Parker-Joseph | 29 September 2008 at 19:59
Thanks Ian. Will definitely check it out.
Posted by: Simon Collister | 01 October 2008 at 10:56
well its soo good to see this information in your post, i was looking the same but there was not any proper resource, thanx now i have the thing which i was looking for my research.
Posted by: UK Dissertation | 09 February 2010 at 15:24