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From Media Giraffe

Silicon Valley is ready to do demonstration projects and provide cool tools...because it helps create buzz. And foundations like Gates, Lemelson,Mastercard and Whole Foods are ready to listen to project descriptions, too. Ditto for DC agencies and city government in Boston, Newark, New Orleans, NYC, Chicago and Philly. 

And I've been speaking with Bank of America, policy groups and regulation types like Barney Frank about citizens as quality assurance representatives...using social and civic media as a feedback loop that identifies and maps out problems for top leaders in public, private and nonprofit bureaucracies including the airline industry.

The benefits of this approach are plentiful and desperately needed in health care, education, innovation, politics and journalism. It cures the valley of death of information that leads to defective government, defective big business and defective big anything.

It's a way for individual informal systems to take back the role they used to play with formal bureaucracy systems: quality control.

And yes, a group of us are about to launch a site and civic brand (no money changes hands, just freeflowing info about what's happening and what's possible anytime, anywhere).