Posts under ‘Government 2.0’

I received this email message from the President last night (March 21, 2010) at 11:51 p.m. I remember similar historic votes when the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 were passed in Congress. I don’t have any kind of personal documentation from 1964 (I was 9 years old then. I lobbied for the ADA for two years and was invited to the signing ceremony at the White House on July 26, 1990. I have plenty of documents and memorabilia from that experience, though none of it is online. After hearing CBC Spark’s show on personal digital archives, I know I need to do something about that before all that stuff is lost in the clutter.

Edward Tufte is perhaps the country’s foremost evangelist for the clean, clear and rich presentation of complex information. The Obama administration’s stimulus package is flooding the economy with 787 billion dollars for employment and public works projects. Put the two together, as Obama did earlier this month when he nominated Tufte for the stimulus advisory board with the hopes that the public will have a fighting chance of understanding where the stimulus money went and what it’s doing.

The Ohio Secretary of State’s office is looking for people with disabilities to participate in a training video designed to educate poll workers about people with disabilities, how to accommodate voters with disabilities at polling locations, proper assistance, proper etiquette, accessibility at polling locations and a variety of other awareness information regarding the disability community. [...]

When I heard the word “readable” in the following quote from the Personal Democracy Forum, I immediately read into it “accessible” for blind readers. Via Eric Kuhn: TwitNotes from #PDF09:

Andrew Rasiej:  Public should be redefined as being searchable and readable on-line. In a connected society we need to redefine “public” in an open framework. We [...]