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The Computing Culture group at MIT’s Media Lab is publishing an information sharing service that extends the Buy It Like You Mean It open source code. The Landman Report Card will allow land owners to negotiate with oil and gas companies on an even playing field when they are approached by company representatives. Honest representatives will develop a good reputation through this service. The bad guys should be flushed into the open.

The project has aspirations to assist in record keeping, litigation and other forms of activism addressing the gas extraction industry’s practices.

Good work guys!

Are you interested in launching a grassroots information sharing tool? Check out bilumi’s shared code base to see if it could help you get started!

This entry was posted on Sunday, December 7th, 2008 at 2:50 pm by Clay and is filed under Civic Media, Technology. You can follow responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.