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Help Design the New FCC Website

1 Comment Post by smitht | August 3, 2009 – 4:50 pm | Permalink |  Print This Post |

In the spirit of new models for changing the communication relationships between the public and its government, this recent news from the Sunlight Foundation looks like a great start and a good example of how crowdsourcing – for the benefit of the larger crowd could work. Stay Tuned. I will follow up with updates.

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The Sunlight Foundation is redesigning the Federal Communication Commission’s web site, and we need your help. Unlike our previous government website redesign projects — USA.gov , the EPA, the FEC, and the U.S. Supreme Court – we are asking for your ideas first, before we put pen to paper. So tell us what you like, dislike, and would like to see on a re-imagined fcc.gov. The present FCC site is here.

To start off the conversation, we ask that you to focus on big picture issues. What kinds of information are missing from the FCC’s web site? How should its information be organized? How should it be presented? How should it be accessed and downloaded? To what extent should the web site incorporate social media/web 2.0 technology, and how should it be used?

Our discussion will take place in three different locations. First, you can comment on this listserv. Second, we’re using Sunlight’s other public Google groups, Sunlight Labs, where you can join and participate. Finally, you can also comment on our introductory blogpost, which is available on the Sunlight Labs blog here.

If you have additional private comments, please contact me. We will read your comments, participate in the conversation, and look forward to drawing upon your ideas to create the mock-up of how the FCC’s site should be improved.

Daniel

Daniel Schuman
Policy Counsel | Sunlight Foundation