Talks about the grand scheme behind the transparent federal budget. Allowing people to document the budget on a paragraph by paragraph basis.

1. Where do we go
from here?
transparent Federal Budget

2. If you
search on
Silona - top
40 hits
I’m the only
“silona
Bonewald”
in the world
http://google.com
Note 5 Social networks
my personal site
and a business site
who I am is also who I know and associate with.

3. • Pol Sci
degree in 92
• political
campaigns
89 - 95
• Leg
staffer in 91
• POlitical
software
89-95
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cmiked/2118578

4. • On the Internet since 86
• On the web since inception
• Ran political campaigns 89-94
• Wrote political software 94-96
• first paid site on web 96
• started ISP 97
• large CMS systems 98-04
• started LoTV 04- present
brief resume - drift over this... you can validate it all on Google

5. Transparent Federal
budget
• it’s a big dream...
• getting ready for the next
generation!

6. The real reason...
I use many pictures of children in this prezo...
because this is the reality of whose system this will be and who will be using it in the future. We have
to plan for them and understand the newer generation that is adopting these systems worldwide at an
amazing rate.

7. THe HOW
1.Data - citability.org
2.people - FSN
3.connections - Connect the dots

8. Citability.org
• Adrian’s slide deck from
http://citability.org

9. Citability.org part 2
• A movement...

10. Citation
• atomic / unique
• open / Accessible
• Accountable
• permanence

11. Atomic
• hundreds of pages documents
that change frequently
• documentation requires things
be citable on a paragraph level
just like BOOKS

12. Unique
• Unique ID makes the internet into
a database
• Verifiable
• Searchable on identifier

13. Accessibility
• URL standard makes it parseable
• markup standards also makes it
understandable
• anything a computer reads and
understands -> blind can too!

14. Easy of Use
• human readable
• Example: Http://archive.house.gov/
HR1586IH/20030318093016#S1b1cii
• The example would point to section
1, subsection b, chapter 1,
paragraph c, clause ii in HR1586 on
Mar 18, 2003 at 09:30:16 am UTC

15. Accountability
• date/time stamp
• hashes - show changes
• end to link rot

16. permanence
• Date/time stamp
• makes citations VALID
• fights link rot
• makes the internet into Database
for a Versioning System

17. intellectual honesty
• public can watch changes

18. Reputation
• the website becomes
accountable for what it
publishes

19. Open
• WestLaw problem
• Lexus nexus problem
• Open to Everyone - anyone w a
free blog account can
converse

20. Websites
• alpha-numeric in background
• table of contents
• Purple numbers
• doesn’t matter just needs to be
on paragraph basis (even just
count <p> tags!)

21. Global
• So simple
• it is also global
• most tweets OUTSIDE the US!

22. How
• drupal ->
• already does pretty URLs (most
CMS do)
• quickfix ->
• 2 lines of javascript
• one DNS redirect for
archive.house.gove
• archive server scrapes and
formats

23. Next step
• Drupal Codeathon in Paris
• fundraise 25K to have archive
server software created for
archive.org
• NYSenate.gov is done in drupal
• recovery.gov is done in drupal
• HINT HINT!

24. Step 2: FSN
• free and open source social
network
• allows groups to have private
Social network
• aggregate persona for
reputation

25. replacement
• studies show people do not join
more than 1 or 2 social
networks
• who has time to deal with that
much communication?
• how to solve that problem?

26. My aggregate persona
• Legislative liaison for ACLU
• Legislative liaison for EFF
• Board of directors for texas
Assoc of Nonprofit
Organization
• founder of league of technical
Voters
• Linked in profile

27. Reputation
• check and see who I am

28. later...
• look at your profile
• look at others profiles
• calculated % chance you will
agree with them
• make up your own mind!

29. next step?
• talking with several businesses
interested in business model
• business own their data instead
of facebook
• DNC - solves networking issues
among competitive groups

30. Step 3: Connect the dots

31. 5 Paragraphs in
telecom bill
banning
Muni Wi-FI
5 permalinks done Citability.org style for those paragraphs in the texas Telecom Bill Senate Bill 5 Title
Section Subsection Chapter Paragraph
http://archive.house.us.tx/178legislature/SB5IH/20040521120000#SB5IH5B3b2ii

32. Senate
Subcommitee
Senator 1 Senator 4
Senator 2 Senator 3
scraped from the Texas legislature site - again can be sited w advanced permalinks and date time
stamped for when committees change

33. 5 Paragraphs
banning WiFI
Sub- Sen 4
committee
Sen 3
Sen 1
Sen 2
An individual can make this BLUE link or we can derive it from the fact that this bill is assigned to this
sub-committee or from sponsorships - the point is this link can be fuzzy and doesn’t have to be
sponsor only but can be verifiable with Advanced permalink style citations (and parser doesn’t have to
do all the work)

34. Donor
1 for 100K
Senator 1
Donor
6 for 70K
Donor
2 for 100k
Donor
5 for 100K
Donor
3 for 125k Donor
4 for 5k
Someone can add their data to the database like maplight. maplight also implements advanced
permalinks ala citability.org and therefore their work becomes citable (and they become responsible
for validity)

35. SBC Board
of Directors
Donor
1
Donor
5
Donor
2 Donor
3
Another group adds the information to the database. Again using advanced permalinks ala citability
they then become responsible for the validity of the information

36. 5 paragraphs
Sub Sen 4
committee
Sen 1
Sen 3
Sen 2
D1 at 100 D2 at 100 D3 at 125 D5 at 100
Senator 1 has
425K from SBC
related
interests
SBC
anyone can come in a make the BLUE connections to show a POSSIBLE path of influence. with the
FOSSN we can calculate the percentage chance you will think this is accurate based on your social
network of people and groups. In other words if you believe theworkforyou, maplight, the government
there is a greater chance you will agree with this pathway. Also we allow individuals to vote on this.
So if a bunch of your friends vote it as important it is more likely to show up on your profile as
something to check out.

37. Any piece
of info •Who entered it (link
to profile)
•date
•citation
•Reputation rating
tags
•validated BY
•Group associations
•Action desired
•other tags etc...
every piece of data not just the atomic citable datacircles but the CONNECTIONS have information
connected to it. These help in the calculations of percentage chance of relevance.

38. Visualization tools
• metaweb.com
• IBM - many eyes
• berkman center
• apture
• reframeit
• wiki mindmaps

39. questions!

40. Live wiki editing
http://Citability.pbworks.com

41. How to contact me?
Silona.com
silona@silona.com
(512) 750-9220
Silona_bonewald on Skype