PC World | 12 Dec 2008
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has used Web tools to solicit donations and hear from his supporters during his campaign, but it’s still unclear how many of those methods will translate into electronic government, a group of e-campaign and open-government experts said at a conference on technology and participatory government, hosted by Google. If government agencies begin to seek public participation in a major way, instead of the occasional request for comments, they could be flooded with “white noise,” said Jonathan Zuck, president of the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT), a tech trade group. In addition, the way Obama and other politicians have sought feedback means that the comments come from a self-selected group of people and may not reflect the attitudes of the public at large, he said. “There’s a lot of ‘Kumbaya’ in the room, but there are a lot of challenges” to achieving participatory government, he said.
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Tags: ACT Quote, eGovernment, North America, Regulation
