The District of Columbia released a Draft Open Data Policy on its newly launched drafts.dc.gov site—intensifying citizen engagment in lawmaking on the OpenGov Foundation’s Madison platform.
“The URL of D.C.’s Madison site tells you everything because just putting ‘Draft’ at the top of a document, even if it’s something fully baked, was government and elected officials taking a meaningful step toward their constituents,” said Seamus Kraft, the OpenGov Foundation’s executive director, said in an interview. “It tells them, ‘I actually haven’t finished this, and I’m going to consider what you have to say.’”
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