OpenGovernment is a free and open-source public resource website for government transparency and civic engagement at the state and local levels...
The ultimate mission of OpenGovernment is to ensure that all three branches (executive, legislative, and judicial) at every level of government (federal, state, city, local, and more) comply with the Principles of Open Government Data. Public data can and should be public, immediately and in full, and it can and should be made accessible to everyone online, so as to increase trust in the political process. From this foundation of open government data, an entire ecosystem of public-interest tools can grow and evolve. Transparency, in turn, can create new opportunities for meaningful civic engagement in our representative democracy. Greater day-to-day civic engagement and citizen watchdogging, we believe, will result in reduced corruption in government, better public policy outcomes, and stronger democratic institutions.
LibraryThing
LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for book lovers.
LibraryThing helps you create a library-quality catalog of books: books you own, books you've read, books you'd like to read, books you've lent out ... whatever grouping you'd like.
Since everyone catalogs online, they also catalog together. You can contribute tags, ratings and reviews for a book, and Common Knowledge (facts about a book or author, like character names and awards), as well as participate in member forums or join the Early Reviewers program. Everyone gets the benefit of everyone else's work. LibraryThing connects people based on the books they share.
LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for book lovers.
The MetaCurrency Project
...There is the possibility of new technologies, that, like writing and the printing press before them, form the platform from which it is possible to build new kinds of social structures that design away the problem of the previous era, and similarly become a platform for new emergence. The MetaCurrency Platform is an ambitious suite of technology components that we believe could constitute this era's pivotal platform technology...
...The MetaCurrency platform design is based on a number of underlying assumptions whose full description is beyond the scope of this paper, but we name them here without supporting argument and in the appendix point to other writings that argue the case for these assumptions. These are our points of departure:
- Social groups are like living organism in that their health is the result of highly coordinated flows.
- Coordination of flows is inherently an embodied informational process.
- In modern societies, money is the fundamental informational tool used to coordinate flows of goods and services, in a process most often called "the economy."
- Money is not the only informational tool used to coordinate flows, in fact, it is one of a whole host of such information systems that make visible and allow the coordination of flows. It is not widely understood that money is an instance of a broader category.
- The broader category of such information systems (what we call currencies) are those formal information systems that mark flows, which makes them visible and allow us to interact with and shape them. Not only material flows, but flows of all types, like flows of social participation and attention.
- To make this broader category accessible and visible we need a meta-informational capacity, a kind of grammar and syntax, that makes construction of all sorts of currencies possible.
Given the above as points of departure, a meta-information system that fills the requirements necessary to be the expressive enough to allow scalable, wide-spread and easy implementation of currencies of all types will need to address the following technical components:
- having a way of identifying the agents that comprise the social organism that will transact
- having a common grammar and syntax in which to express the statements that constitute valid transactions in the various currencies
- having a medium of transmission for the transactions
- having a reliable record of the transactions
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