We Are All Actors:

Transparent Federal

Budget Workshop

Silona Bonewald

Who am I?

• Silona.com

• or google me

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cmiked/2118578

• Pol Sci degree in

92

• political campaigns

89 - 95

• Leg staffer in

91

• POlitical software

89-95

CMS large workflow systems

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/index.cfm?domain=Knowledge%20Networks

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Kill the

red

dragon

!

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Baby

Picture by Sofia Martinez

Who are you?

Techies

Data Brokers

Standards bearers

UsersNonProfits

Role Models Businesses

Techies

Joseph SmarrPlaxo

Edwin WiseMindmapper

Hunter EllingerC-wiki

Joshua GayMagnawiki

Kurt BollackerFreebase

James Hoganlarge systems

all the standards peopleSteve

WellsPol Soft

DevGrady Seale

NEw york times

Silona BonewaldCMS MMO

Standards

Tantek CelikMicroformats

Dick HardtEntity based Identity

Brad Fitzpatrick

OpenID

Bob BlakleyIETF in the past

Sharron RushAccessiblity

Data BrokersKurt

BollackerFreebaseKevin Jones

xigiTim Erikson

e-democracy

Kathi MitchellConsumers Union

Scott Henson was ACLU Leg Lobby team

Don ShaferIEEE

Ariel Hauter

hhill.org

Aliza GoldDMC

Steven Clift

dowire

NonProfits

Kathi MitchellConsumers Union

Scott Henson

Advocate and

researcher

Ariel Hauterhhill.org

Joshua GayFSF

Tim Eriksone-

democracy.org

Sharron RushKnowbility

Kai Peter ChangNPO fundraiser

Taylor WillinghamTexas Forums

Steven Clift

dowire

Silona Bonewald

TANO

Businesses

Kevin JonesXigi

Joseph SmarrPlaxo

Donna KidwellIC2 and others...

Kurt BollackerMetaweb

Users

Dr. Lynda BonewaldScientist

and Advocate

Grady SealeNew york times

Donna KidwellInternationalization

Aliza Goldgovt

agencies

Don ShaferIEEE

Dan ZallesSRI

Andrew Gajkowski

Attorney

Marla CrockettJournalist

Blamore LazoLBJ Library

College Student

Mark StramaElected Official

Role Models

Betty Sue Flowers

Bill BradleyJimmy Wales

EACH AND EVERY ONE OF

YOU

Key elements

Simplicity

Transparency

Reputation

Entity based Identity

Open Standards

Open Source/Free Software

Community Creation

Collaboration

Open APIs

ConsensusCommon Ground FUN

Flexible

Connecting the dots...

5 Paragraphs in telecom bill banning Muni

Wi-FI

Senator 2

Senator 1 Senator 4

Senator 3

Senate Subcommitee

Sen 4

Sen 3

Sen 2Sen 1

Sub-committee

5 Paragraphsbanning WiFI

Donor1 for 100K

Donor2 for 100k

Donor3 for 125k Donor

4 for 5k

Donor6 for 70K

Donor5 for 100K

Senator 1

Donor3

Donor2

Donor1

SBC Board of Directors

Donor5

SBC

D1 at 100 D2 at 100 D3 at 125 D5 at 100

Sen 1

Sen 2Sen 3

Sen 4Subcommittee

5 paragraphs

Senator 1 has 425K from SBC

related interests

•Who entered it (link to profile)•date•Link to original text or citation•Reputation rating•validated BY•Group association (Link to Group)•Action desired•tags etc...

Any piece of info

Info

pt 4

pt 5

Pt 6

AgainstFor

pt 3 pt 2

pt 1

Infopt 4

pt 5

pt6

AgainstFor

pt 3 pt 2

pt 1

Info

pt 4

pt 5

PT 6

pt 3 pt 2

pt 1

New against

pt 10

Pro

new p1

AgainstFor

It’s been done!

• http://der-mo.net/relationBrowser/

• http://www.wikimindmap.org/

•http://www.xigi.net/index.php?map=person&map_person=4

LoTV’s Role

• Corral the Community to create, Use and maintain the software

• make it FUN, make it FAIR

• Documentation

• Education

• User Interface Design

LET’S

GO KILL

THE RED

DRAGON

!

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