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Sunlight To Offer Ideas For FCC Facelift

August 3, 2009

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Government transparency gurus at the Sunlight Foundation have embarked on a project to show what the FCC's Internet presence should look like in the Web 2.0 world. According to Archive.org, the FCC site last received a facelift in fall 2001. The watchdog will release a mock up of a re-imagined FCC.gov but unlike its previous redesign projects -- USA.gov, the EPA, the FEC, and the Supreme Court -- the group is asking for public input before putting pen to paper. Sunlight wants to know: What kinds of information are missing from the FCC's site? How should information be organized? How should it be presented? How should it be accessed and downloaded? To what extent should the site incorporate social media and how should it be used? The dialogue will take place online through open government discussion groups and at Sunlight Labs site. Click here for more information.

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