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Open source brings to us the ability to have collaborative and agile development environments....Additionally, open source benefits the Department of Defense through...simplified licensing...and security....Security through obscurity just doesn't work.

, the government should be a rule-setting referee to encourage the development of an open software platform on which innovators could write electronic health record applications.

While dialog and deliberation techniques (America Speaks, Deliberative Juries, Open Space, World Café, etc) all have important roles to play in increasing public participation, their proponents may benefit from considering some additional working assumptions and principles.