The Electronic Rulemaking Innovations Gallery

1. The Electronic Rulemaking Innovations Gallery Prof. Beth Simone Noveck Institute for Information Law & Policy New York Law School Bnoveck@nyls.edu

2. E-Rulemaking Participation Priorities • From legal rights to participative practices • Visual deliberation • Challenge to the private sector

3. Designing Participative Practices • Technology allows us to translate legal rights into participative practices • Enables lateral communication by and among citizens • Focus on interpersonal processes of collaboration • Design for rulemaking community of practice: participation by groups • Social software for citizens

4. Small group • Participatory • Informed • Relevant • Accountable • Transparent • Accessible • Pluralistic • Relevant Unchat is patented software for real-time moderated group deliberation and collaboration via the Web.

5. Visualizing the community of rulemaking practice

6. Visual Deliberation • Traditional assumptions about deliberation assume now outmoded technological conditions • People will experience government through the screen • Visual exchange of public reason • Managing communication by the group • Exploiting the networked, interactive screen

7. This application focuses on legal texts, such as complex statutes, rules and court cases The Clickable Statutes software enables authoring and use of interactive logic diagrams

11. Fostering Private Sector Development • Let others build it and they will come • “Changing the culture” • Participation not consultation • Creating a culture of rulemaking • Articulating the need to the tech community • Provide the data and others will build the interfaces

13. Rulemaking Gallery • Sharing innovations across agencies, across levels of government, across countries and across domains.

16. The Future of Citizen Participation?