Government Asked To Use Emerging Technologies

August 9, 2012 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Government Asked To Use Emerging Technologies

Semantic web technologies now make it possible for just about anybody to monitor just about anybody. This monitoring has also become very cost-effective for affluent and average citizens. This is a switch, because these technologies have been widely used to monitor the weak; they have not been used to monitor the powerful.

We found this interesting view on Brookings in their article, “Government-wide Information Sharing for Democratic Accountability.” A paper has been submitted to the president of the United States requesting he use the new technologies so the American people can more easily monitor his public, official actions. The request cites that this would serve as a showcase, for Congress and the rest of the executive branch, of government-wide information sharing for democratic accountability.

Emerging technologies make searching across government databases and websites easier than ever before imaginable. So who knows, maybe soon we can log on and see what the president did that day.

Melody K. Smith

Sponsored by Access Innovations, the world leader in thesaurus, ontology, and taxonomy creation and metadata application.

Posted in ,

Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.