INFORMATION RENAISSANCE
Recommendations
  • Simple Technical Steps
    1. Active notification
    2. Tracking systems
    3. Indices
    4. Structured input forms
    5. Analysis tools
  • Architectural Issues
    1. Modular design
    2. Protocols for data storage, access and exchange
    3. Web services to access databases
    4. Interoperability with Open Source systems
    5. Alternate front ends
    6. Standards for federal, state, local and international governments
    7. Scaling to very large audiences
  • Issues of Rulemaking Practice
    1. Reply comment periods
    2. Background materials
    3. Interactive tools, open modeling
    4. Early public input
    5. Online dialogues
  • Participation
    1. User participation (agency personnel and the public) in system design and testing
    2. User feedback and system evaluation
    3. Public role in enforcement and monitoring