[open-government] API for brainstorming and example

Mon Aug 16 22:17:26 UTC 2010

Thanks for the reply,

I like the idea of e-democracy.org. Creating one platform than different
community can use.

## How I see a brainstorm web site
A  forum is nice for a linear discussion but not so good to fix a problem. I
can see mainly this different point:
- subjects duplication
- no subject popularity ordering
- linear discussion when is more interesting to have the "good" answer first

Look at http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ or  http://stackoverflow.com/ those
systems are better to find a solution to a problem.

With this kind of structure the current subject is automatically the subject
than most people think is important.

## The API
So if you look on http://wiki.open311.org/GeoReport_v1 this is an open API
specification for a 311 service.

>From open311.org: "Open311 is a form of technology that provides open
channels of communication for issues that concern public space and public
services. Primarily, Open311 refers to a standardized technology for
location-based collaborative issue-tracking. By offering free web API access
to an existing 311 service, Open311 is an evolution of the phone-based 311
systems that many cities in North America offer."

The nice things about standard API is when you create a tools for one
specified web site your tools work for all web site using the same API.

## keep concurrency open
This is the main point. When you have open standard any one can come in the
market and make new tools/services. Because they use the same API they take
directly advantage of the eco-system of products.

Regards

Simon Perdrisat

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 21:30, Steven Clift <clift at e-democracy.org> wrote:

> Interesting.
>
> I have 550 of my neighbors on this forum - http://e-democracy.org/se -
> where we mix it up everyday on community and civic life (about 15% of
> households and growing).
>
> My neighborhood association (government recognized, funded) recently
> had me at one of their meetings to brainstorm ideas on how they might
> leverage the forum in their next strategic planning process. I
> suggested a few things like having a special theme each month where a
> lead post was designed to generate some feedback for their process.
>
> So what do you mean exactly by an API to do this kind of thing more
> systematically?
>
> Steve
>
> Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com
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>
>
> 2010/8/16 Simon Perdrisat <perdrisat at gmail.com>:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I just subscribe to the list so "hello everybody".
> >
> > I'm interested to know more about exciting API and tools for
> brainstorming
> > in an open gov way. I find some API like http://open311.org/ but nothing
> for
> > brainstorming. They are also some open source tools like
> > http://www.ideatorrent.org but still is not an API.
> >
> > I live in Switzerland and we can wait for centuries before the gov open
> any
> > data. I'm affrayed if I create a data platform like data.gov nobody was
> > interested because it's empty...
> >
> > But a brainstorming platform is a tools and can be first used by really
> > small village and political group too. And so we start create a kind of
> > data. I hop also other peoples intersted by the subject  in the country
> > start to work together to push the open gov concept.
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Simon
> >
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