{"id":7195,"date":"2010-09-25T14:26:43","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T18:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7195"},"modified":"2010-09-25T14:26:43","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T18:26:43","slug":"reduce-government-grow-liberty-there%e2%80%99s-an-app-for-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7195\/reduce-government-grow-liberty-there%e2%80%99s-an-app-for-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Reduce Government?  Grow Liberty?  There\u2019s An App For That."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/theprometheusinstitute.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Prometheus Institute<\/a>, an Irvine, CA-based think tank, is at the leading edge of using new media to make government more transparent, while spreading the good news about free markets.\u00a0 Currently, the group\u2019s signature initiative is the <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/do-it-yourself-democracy-california\/id337771823?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Do-It-Yourself Democracy\u2019 App<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The fruit of hundreds of hours of research, the DIY Democracy App allows users to instantly find the contact information for state and local officials, official forms for filing complaints, propose local initiatives, and research individual rights like freedom of speech and association.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s an interview with the Institute\u2019s founders from Reason.tv:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qnCk8t6zLgg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qnCk8t6zLgg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Prometheus is also gearing up to use the digital capabilities of the Apple I-Pad to promote free market classics like F.A. Hayek\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iea.org.uk\/files\/upld-publication43pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Road to Serfdom<\/em><\/a> to a new generation of readers.\u00a0 Not bad for a couple of guys trying to \u201cpioneer innovative technology to advance liberty.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prometheus Institute, an Irvine, CA-based think tank, is at the leading edge of using new media to make government more transparent, while spreading the good news about free markets.\u00a0 Currently, the group\u2019s signature initiative is the \u2018Do-It-Yourself Democracy\u2019 App. The fruit of hundreds of hours of research, the DIY Democracy App allows users to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1885,1069,742,1884,1629,1886],"class_list":["post-7195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-f-a-hayek","tag-liberty","tag-limited-government","tag-prometheus-institute","tag-reason-tv","tag-road-to-serfdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7195"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7199,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195\/revisions\/7199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}