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You've heard of Open Source, right? Why not Open State? It's a simple idea. Government is a bunch of ad-hoc, chaotic processes that are hard to follow – and politicians like it that way. Nothing does processes better than software. Let's build the software that will render governments transparent and force them to be efficient and accountable. If we the people don't do it, nobody will.

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