Don’t know what to say except, wow!
I’ve just been picking apart Utah’s state website for like, a while. It’s kind of amazing…. If you’ve never been you should at least take a look, i could spend a long time there learning all sorts of stuff about a place i don’t even live in. The user experience, attention to detail, and the richness of the content is stunning, and I didn’t get past the font page.
Actually i found it through this interesting slideshow on government website design, and it really got me thinking about the power of technology in democracy. Like, education is one of the foundations of a successful government, and i don’t just mean the “no child left behind” kind of education, but the informed populace kind of education. How many social services go unused or abused because those who can use them don’t know about them? How much more effective would our activism be if we all really understood democratic process in the US?
Using technology to present empowering information to millions of users, now that’s powerful change.