How much do you know about what your government is doing?
Wouldn't it be nice if you could go online and easily locate potential lobbying ties with those who visit the White House. Or maybe closer to home, get easy to understand descriptions of the laws your state legislators have been creating.
Waldo Jaquith has been creating just such a revolution in participatory democracy.
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Waldo Jaquith - Principal developer for the Obama administration’s new Ethics.Gov web service. Creator of the Virginia legislative analysis tool - Virginia Decoded. Author of the Waldo.net blog. Creator of the Richmond Sunlight web service. Fellow with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.