Here’s rogue archivist Carl Malamud’s five-minute Ignite Sebastapol talk on “Code City”: the democratic necessity of making all of the nation’s laws and codes free to read, download and analyze: “The laws that most directly touch our daily lives are not supreme court opinions or bills of landmark legislation, they are the public safety codes: building, electrical, plumbing, and other technical standards. Yet, these laws are the most inaccessible.
Open standards make better infrastructure, and if we open sourced our public safety codes, our laws would be not only more relevant, but the law would be better.”
(Thanks, Carl!)
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