Seamus Kraft writes a guest column in StateScoop:
It may come as a shock, but while most of us live in a time empowered by iPhones and digital technology, America’s legislatures seem cast from the last century.
Innovation and technology, it is safe to say, have not yet made it easier to serve in a legislative body, or to interact with your elected officials as a citizen. Perhaps worse, many legislatures are teetering on the brink of dysfunction when it comes to interacting with the public and fulfilling their critical constitutional obligations.
Make no mistake: A technology and information sea change is underway across American society.
From our view at The OpenGov Foundation — we see a real need to help city councils on up to the Congress adapt to this new reality and transform their legislatures into the effective, efficient, Internet Age institutions they must become.
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