[CivicAccess-discuss] Introducing Christopher Ritter

[Christopher D. Ritter]

Hello!

My name is Christopher Ritter. I'm a User Experience Designer from the
United States and the owner of CivicAccess.us.

I've been passionate about Open Government for many years but have recently
begun thinking about a new way to bring the idea to the American People --
by seeing Government Access as a Civil Right versus arguing the benefits of
Citizen being able to directly represent themselves across every branch of
the United States Government.

>From my perspective, Civic Access does not simply define a Philosophy, or
even stop short as a Right, but also includes a specific framework on which
to build an Open Source project that allows people to access and manage
their civic information. While I'm still new to CivicAccess.ca, I've not
been able to locate a specific software effort to enable Civic Access.

Is CivicAccess.ca looking to design or currently developing an Open Source
solution?

Also, I belong to another Open Government called Metagovernment. We've got a
lot of great developers from around the world working on Open Source voting
solutions, as well as members from other Open Government projects like
DemocracyLab.org. If anyone is interested in more information please ask!

Finally, the guys behind Democracy Lab have shared a request from an Indian
Development Company who is looking to support an Open Source project with
development, documentation, testing, and support. If we're talking about
developing a Civic Access application, I would be happy to share this
information as well!

-- 
Christopher D. Ritter
User Experience Designer
christopherritter at gmail.com

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