It is a laudable idea and one that could tackle some of the biggest problems the world faces

March 24, 2011 - PRLog -- It is a laudable idea and one that could tackle some of the biggest problems the world faces - but it's a proposal grounded in last-century thinking none the less.

On July 1st the British government launched a smaller but radically different project. Show Us a Better Way is a government sponsored mashup contest, inviting members of the public to submit public data mashup ideas for funding. There are some exciting ideas being offered already. We argue that a project like this could have a greater impact than McCain's battery contest.

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Oil dependency is a big enough problem that it threatens the very continuity of life on earth and leads to unfathomable human rights. If the McCain project leads to a solution to this problem, we will shut up and be thankful. There's no guarantee it will work, though, it is very limited in its imagination and we believe that strategies like this should be the exception and not the rule.

In the 20th century, during industrialization's heyday, big public goals made sense. Today, in an era transformed by technology empowering the individual like few things ever have before, questions for which the answers are already known may prove less valuable than open-ended inquiries with substantial institutional support.

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The UK government's Show Us a Better Way project, while tiny in comparison, represents a new era of thought leadership. The government is offering to expose public data to developers without presuming to know what could be done with it. "Here's what we've got, what can you do with it?" is a great question to ask. We would love to see Show Us a Better Way get the kind of financial support that McCain is proposing for the battery project. The resulting application development could radically improve human quality of life in more ways than can be imagined.

McCain, unfortunately, admits that he doesn't know how to use a computer. Perhaps someone can explain APIs and mashups to him in the event that he wins the Presidency.

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