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Free Our Bills! (TheyWorkForYou.com)
By Steve Hanlon | May 28, 2008
TheyWorkForYou is a great resource for seeing how your local MP has been representing you in Parliament. When I last dropped in on their site they were promoting their Free Our Bills! campaign.
Quite sensibly they have been encouraging Parliament to publish proceedings in a way that can be better understood by computers. This might sound irrelevant, but it could change the way that people engage with the way that our legislation is made.
For example, if you were interested in a particular issue and wanted to follow the debate and progress of legislation through parliament, then legislation that can be ‘understood’ by a computer would mean that you could be kept informed quicker and easier. Similar to the way that XML and RSS feeds keep people up to date on a plethora of other information sources.
It would hardly cost the taxpayer anything, but could radically change the way that people engage with law-making. If you have the time, please show your support.