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Many of these organizations may be testing the response they get from creating a Github account. This project is a way they can receive feedback instead of dying in obscurity. It's a chicken and egg problem.

Edit: Longer explanation at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6556181

out of scope because they haven't done anything yet? Perhaps the issue is visibility and mindshare to do something civic, in which case, this would help - no?

Read Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks By Nick Szabo and couple that with Bitcoin. Think of laws as being online documents with their own git layer, public repo infrastructure.

"We are now entering an era of online communications and software "literacy". The "physics of cyberspace", studied by computer scientists, are radically different from the properties of paper, to an even greater degree than paper was different from string, clay, and metal. "

How about GDS? https://github.com/alphagov