New Website to Keep Tabs on the Government
A new website, in association with the MIT Technology Lab will keep tabs on government. The program, aptly called the Government Information Awareness Program (GIA), debuts today. You can access its website here.
Its creators hope it will become a Google of government, a massive Internet clearinghouse of information to help citizens track their leaders as effectively as their leaders track them.
GIA hopes to create an enormous but self-sustaining community where users do the work of keeping it running and credible. Its creators at Media Lab -- a research center whose eclectic projects bridge technology, the arts and media -- view the project not just as a way to pool the collective wisdom of government watchdogs but also as a tool to counter new government technologies that are consolidating information about citizens.
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