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Ignite presentation from NTen's NTC in San Francisco, April 2012. Presented by Karen Suhaka.

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Legislative data can set you free!

Karen Suhaka, LegiNation Inc.NTen Ignite, April 2012

Hi.

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Legislators 65,570Federal Lobbyists 28,000State Level Lobbyists 163,925Advocacy groups 22,000PACs 4,618

…so what happened to we the people?

Occupy Movement

Arab Spring

Susan G Komen

Rush Limbaugh advertisers

Social Media

Sopa / Pipa

Engage!

Free Query

billsheet

Widgets (share publicly)

Stakeholder Page (share privately or publicly)

http://legix.info/legix/resources/Understanding%20SLIM.pdf

XML schema: Simplified Legislative Information Model

Bulk Access to the database / downloads

API?- Protocol (Rest, SOAP, JSON)- Data sets- Functions / Queries- License

– Need suggestions

– Need clever data users

– Need customers

– Need champions

– Spread the word!

Karen@LegiNation.com@BillTrack50www.facebook.com/LegiNationwww.BillTrack50.com

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