Digital Democracy

What have we learned?

Listening as an act of governing:

• Dare to open all channels to listen.
• Provide privacy notice at point of collection.
• Make sure the basics work.  If they don’t, fix them.
• If they do, take a fresh look at search, look and feel, media, folksonomies and social.
• Rethink portal as the non exclusive front door to the information, applications and transactions behind it.
• Give tools and templates away in a subversively helpful way.
• Use maps as the ultimate WYSIWYG interface – extending value of your GIS and making mash-ups routine.
• Solve intractable problems (land reform and use, regulation) through geospatially aware applications that are available to everybody, all the time.