Results Iowa
A website I built for the Governor of Iowa called Results Iowa launched this week. On a whole I think the site is a very progressive step in the field of e-democracy. Essentially, the Governor’s office wanted to build a website that would indicate the key goals and benchmarks of their administration. By using easy to read numbers and graphs, constituents can then get a birds-eye view of the progress state government is making in achieving those goals. It’s a pretty radical idea in that it gives the public a ton of information that was normally reserved for only department heads and government officials. I applaud the gutsiness that the governors office took in bringing this information to the surface and also in allowing the data to be presented in a design that wasn’t steeped in the usual doldrums of governmental information design.
See press on the website here.