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Jimmy Wales To Advise On Crowdsourcing UK Bills
- Financial Times , Wednesday, March 14, 2012 3 AM
The founder of Wikipedia has been drafted to advise on a crowdsourcing approach to policymaking. Next month, he will attend Whitehall meetings to ensure new bills are being shaped by the general public and not just interest groups. Downing Street hopes that Mr Wales’s involvement will help civil servants transform online consultation documents from static PDF files to something more interactive, so the public can get involved in much the same way as Wikipedia is edited collaboratively by its readers.
