{"id":7324,"date":"2016-12-23T09:54:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T15:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=7324"},"modified":"2016-12-23T09:54:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T15:54:49","slug":"we-the-people-shuttered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/12\/23\/we-the-people-shuttered\/","title":{"rendered":"We The People – Shuttered?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jason Goldman,\u00a0@WhiteHouse Chief Digital Officer, comments<\/a> on the digital institution We The People<\/strong><\/em>, the site used to create and maintain petitions to the White House<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

A half million petitions. Over 40 million signatures. Hundreds of responses. We the People has been a remarkable experiment in a new kind of democracy: transparent, accessible, and responsive. A way for anybody, from anywhere, to send a message directly to the White House\u200a\u2014\u200aand, if they collected enough signatures, to receive a direct response. When we launched in 2011, we were excited to bring a new level of transparency and access to the Administration, but we weren\u2019t sure what would happen.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m very proud of the work that was started by the Office of Digital Strategy years before I joined\u200a\u2014\u200aand where we\u2019ve taken We the People since.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Half a million petitions – I had no idea. Mine was one of them<\/a><\/em> – a failure, but a good failure. And the future?<\/p>\n

While we\u2019ve taken every step possible to make it easy for future administrations to carry on this tradition, it\u2019s ultimately up to the incoming team.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You could see this as part of the political wars – an attempt to open communications with those currently living in their Fox News echo chamber. I’ve seen nothing on how well it worked.<\/p>\n

This quote may turn out to be a little haunting:<\/p>\n

\u201cCitizens should be engaged and empowered. That those in power should serve the people, not themselves.\u201d\u200a\u2014\u200aPresident Obama, video message to the Open Government Partnership Global Summit, December 12, 2016<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

President Obama’s always had a clear vision of what government should be, and it’s a good one. I doubt Trump shares it. It would be a matter of morbid fascination to introduce the mythical truth drug into President-elect Trump and then ask him his opinion of the purpose of government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jason Goldman,\u00a0@WhiteHouse Chief Digital Officer, comments on the digital institution We The People, the site used to create and maintain petitions to the White House. A half million petitions. Over 40 million signatures. Hundreds of responses. We the People has been a remarkable experiment in a new kind of democracy: \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7325,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7324\/revisions\/7325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}