OpenGov - Open Government Brainstorm

I just read your Notice of "Crowding Out", "On Topic" and "not just a Suggestion Box" concerns and request for our closer participation

by a vote up; I will try to vote up later.

FIRST, I hope you stay with this as a kind of Science Project or Plant Rearing experience.. I sense some realm of potential intelligent public collective enlightment in this project undertaking!

And I thank you, as one American who discovered your or this site creation by accident.

Your requested task to become more TRANSPARENT, PARTICIPATORY, and COLABORATIVE GOVERNEMT with the public citizens is a challenge for me in that it is such a large Perception of which i have no real inside experience to give balance to a position i might expound on...

--I dont have the time to read them all

--Then if i did,only to find out i didnt know enough anyway

--It is my nature to bump into things that seem wrong to me

So, Lets get to it; No Pusillanimously Pussyfooting here ( for now, anyway)

IDEA/SUGGESTION == greater LOCAL PUBLIC PARTICIPATION because all community is local first.

We have no real way to engage our government and our fellow citizen at the same time locally without a great deal of burden do to things like busy lifestyles,

and everything is a "2 or 3 minute popcorn like comment moment".

So i would propose each community have a descent reasonable in size auditorium

or gathering place next to a respectable, safe and credible entity like a Library or perhaps a School, ( maybe even in a Mall by the food court which would tie into the comming Megalopolis communities)and these facilities be Cameraed Up with the ability to do good quality audio/video recording,, and be able to go direct live to local INTERNET, RADIO and community TV channel broadcasting control rooms simultaneously.

These gathering places could be used for many things, like the many groups and organizations that meet and then just fade away without the rest of us ever seeing what they had to say or were thiking,,

SO some uses are;

--GROUPS and ORGANIZATIONS meetings others could see and hear

--govt Task forces to meet and we could watch them later when we get home

AND, HERE COMES my personal need reason for my suggestion of TECHED UP Community Facilities,, IS because

--- we could set aside an Hour Each Night in these camered up facilities and by some fair means an Individual Citizen could have 10 to 12 minutes max to go on camera in a respectful manner and have his "letter to the Editor", Govt Discontent, Compelling Calling Need, or "what ever their moment is" in an unhurried, unfettered, with dignity individual participation.

This way we in the community could hear each others voice and thoughts without having to go only to often Brutal Talk Radio, Condescending City Council Meetings, Now Restricted Letters to the Editors,

or Crowd Fearing area; We would each of us have a moment of opportunity to participate in our local community government and the community of our peers at the same time in a fair and calm manner our concerns.