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Open data is the first step. I wish I could do more business with my gov't (State and Local) through the internet. "Copies of documents cannot be ordered thro
by todipa 8y ago
Open data is the first step.
I wish I could do more business with my gov't (State and Local) through the internet.
"Copies of documents cannot be ordered through this website, by email or over the telephone." Only fax and snail mail...
https://www.dos.ny.gov/corps/faq_copies.page.asp https://www.dos.ny.gov/corps/faq_copies.page.asp
- weiming 8y agoIs this because they are required to make this info accessible, but are not required to make it easy?
- jaggederest 8y agoMore importantly, there's no specific funding set aside to support the effort to make it available. Government at all levels lives and dies by funding.
- ehsankia 8y agoIt's worth noting that easy to access isn't always the best. A great example of this is mugshots, which are open data, but there are now websites that automatically scrape and index people's mugshots and use SEO to rank highly on searches. They then blackmail the person to have it removed. As long as the data is accessible and reasonable easy to get, where journalists and data scientists who really care about the data can get it, then I think we're in a good place.
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- soared 8y agoThere are fairly cheap services that turn your emails into faxes. I've used them previously and they worked great.