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==Open public data about participants==

Which brings me to my third topic, and I'm sorry to run on. OpenCongress.org has a base of political players based on Semantic Mediawiki, for example http://www.opencongress.org/wiki/United_States_Democratic_Party

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[[File:Lombardi1.jpg|390px|Marc Lombardi diagram of people and organizations connects responsibility]] 
[[File:TheyRule-450.gif|390px|Theyrule.net graph of people and organizations  connects responsibility]]
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My feeling is it's timely and appropriate to create shared public databases for these sort for public participants — public and private companies, government units and representatives, and individual people when they have public interaction. Mark Lombardi and [http://www.theyrule.net theyrule.net] explored these ideas, and my feeling is, past the unnecessary conspiratorial air, they will generate constant public interest and have great value in opening up relevant information, and also help to connect efforts in a "wetry.org" way. Canbudget helps to explore this in pages that add information and costs on pages like http://canbudget.zooid.org/wiki/2010/G20 Now I'm working on tools to discover relationships and present them effectively.

If anyone would like to work on or discuss relevant projects, it would be great to hear from you. 

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