The White House’s We the People petition website is much discussed in government transparency circles but it has only grabbed the public’s attention a few times since its 2011 launch.
That could change with a new project called We the People Write API that’s being developed now by the White House’s digital staff.
APIs, or application programming interfaces, are tools that allow information to stream automatically from one computer system to any other computers that plug into them. The first phase of this project, the Read API, allowed nongovernment developers to automatically gather data from the White House petition site, such as where signatures on a particular petition were coming from and how quickly they were coming in. Read more…
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