How Republicans and Democrats Can Work Together Online to Create Government Transparency
April 20, 2:00 p.m., Ballroom
Description: New communication technologies are recreating democracy
and the Web is the enabler. Citizens can use the Web free government information
from unwieldy sites, to lobby for more data online, to scrutinize government
information and to ask hard questions. If this effort is coordinated across the
political spectrum, activists can unite and use legislative data to make Congress
more accountable. This panel will showcase how to leverage government data
and coalesce parties irrespective of their ideological or partisan affiliation in order
to achieve policy victories.
* Clay Johnson (Director of Sunlight Labs)
* David Waldman (Contributing Editor at Daily Kos)
* Soren Dayton (Public Affairs Department at New Media Strategies)
* Moderator: Gabriela Schneider (Communications Director of the Sunlight Foundation)