If you have been following the
White House's groundbreaking
Open Government Initiative over the past few weeks, you'll be aware already that
Debategraph has been
mapping the proposals emerging from the
Open Government Brainstorming sessions on
Participation,
Transparency and
Collaboration.
The
Open Government Initiative moved into the third, and most significant,
Drafting phase today—and we're delighted to note that the
White House's Open Government team has entrusted this vital phase to our favourite
wiki team at
MixedInk (who, if you haven't discovered them yet, offer a truly innovative and powerful approach to the task of
collaborative writing, which is ready to be applied in multiple contexts).
The initial Open Government
Brainstorming and
Discussion phases have been stimulating and
generative, but the real
collaborative work, the real collaborative responsibility, and the real collaborative opportunity lie in the
next phase of synthesis. So get writing! ...and, to help you on your way, here's the
combined Debategraph of the redacted proposals from the three brainstorming sessions: