Crowd sourcing your civic duty

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theresa-bradley/el-hacker-civico-how-civi_b_4334088.html

"'We didn't just 'angry tweet,' we actually did something,' Soto, a 28-year-old IT engineer and social entrepreneur, said at the time.' Citizens need to understand democracy beyond voting every few years, and government needs to understand that we're willing to participate.'
Seven months later, Mexico's president appears to have heard them, hiring Soto and nine others to launch one of the world's first federal civic innovation offices, part of a broader national digital agenda to be formally unveiled today [Monday, 11/25, 1PM ET]. Building on a model pioneered in a handful of U.S. cities since 2010, Mexico's civic innovation team aims to integrate so-called 'civic hackers' with policy experts already inside government -- to not only build better technology, but to seed a more tech-minded approach to problem-solving across federal processes and policy. What began as outside activism is slowly starting to creep into government."

Making your tax dollars go further, one hack at a time.