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By adding your name here you’re saying that you like what we’re trying to accomplish. If you’ve been browsing around, you know that Project One has three main communities that it plans to support: Constituents, Government Decision-makers, and Advocacy Groups (click to jump). By adding your name to the section that best describes you, you will be supporting our work by showing the desire that each of these communities has for a solution to its inter-communication woes!

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Last updated: May 4, 2009
First posted: September 4, 2008

9 Comments

If you are a Constituent who wants a secure and reliable means of communicating with your elected officials, reply to this comment to show your support!

While we are happy for whatever you are willing to share, the following information would best show the diversity of our support:

Wayne Moses Burke
Executive Director, Open Forum Foundation
Washington, DC

Glenyss Ryan

I’ve always felt frustrated in not having the savvy to know the best way to reach my elected official and have my voice heard. The Open Form Foundation sounds like it could be a perfect tool for me in that regard.

Eric Gorny

This is what is needed to let our elected officials remember we are here more than just during the campaign. Thank you for the new source of communication!

If you are a Government Decision-maker, or you work for one, and you like what we are proposing, reply to this comment to show your support!

While we are happy for whatever you are willing to share, the following information would best show the diversity of our support:

Wayne Moses Burke
Executive Director, Open Forum Foundation
Washington, DC

If you work for an Advocacy Group and see Project One as a solution to the difficulties you have in expressing the opinions of your members, click reply to this comment to show your support!

While we are happy for whatever you are willing to share, the following information would best show the diversity of our support:

Wayne Moses Burke
Executive Director, Open Forum Foundation
Washington, DC

You Street, an initiative of Americans for Campaign Reform, supports any effort that seeks to improve communication between constituents and Congress. Kudos to you!

Wayne, Marvelous idea! I find that NM state senators, for example, will add me to their generic emailings after I’ve corresponded with them, but these generally offer no way to reply. And there is the matter of issues at the local, state and national level…it would be great to be able to voice my opinion/share ideas with all the relevant decision-makers in one place that they read and respond to. I will mention openforum.org in my next GoRealtySantaFe.com newsletter, and look forward to being part of this project. All good things! Aysha

Mike Aaron

Letters take too long in our digital culture, I can never get through on the phone and that communication is inadequate on nuanced issue topics anyway, and I don’t believe there is any possible way that email can make an effective impact given how much Congresspeople receive. Something like Project One has potential to suss out the nuance and round out a topical discussion so that our elected representatives can hear nuance in our soundbite society. Best of luck making this project successful, Wayne!

This is an excellent project.

I’d like to see it taken one step further by having the underlying data stored using a open public data standard. Examples include AIIM and ANSI X12′s CICA Framework. This would facilitate a reduction of costs to comply with FOIA requests and the ability to provide the public with standardized instructions and even scripts and other programs to extract information requests.

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