Local eGov
Silona Bonewald - Consultant
Silona is currently focused on creating the League of Technical Voters (LoTV). The most well known project LoTV is soliciting funding for is the illuminatedbudget.org with Senator Bill Bradley and Jimmy Wales. Before this she started her own company, ElecTech that created specialized software for political campaigns, and ran a web consulting business where she was one of the first people to create websites for hire, and to successfully optimize her clients’ websites for usability and top search engine ranking. She has also worked in the gaming industry, creating high visibility web presences, content management systems, and large database back-end integrations. Silona volunteers for the ACLU and EFF on technology-based civil liberties issues, and has lobbied on various issues. The combination of her involvement in political activism, educational activism, psychometrics for gaming communities, lobbyist work, netizen activities and web design make her uniquely suited to envision the framework that will make the LoTV system all possible.
Dan Newman - Co-founder, MAPLight.org
Dan is Co-Founder and Executive Director of MAPLight.org, a
nonpartisan nonprofit illuminating the connection between money and politics in
unprecedented ways. MAPLight.org's groundbreaking website reveals relationships
between campaign donations and legislative votes, helping citizens and
communities hold their elected officials accountable. The Sunlight Foundation
called MAPLight.org "a preview of the next generation of
money-and-politics reporting." Dan, an entrepreneur and political
organizer, is the author of three books on speech recognition software and is
the founder of Say I Can, a speech recognition firm. Dan co-founded the
Berkeley Fair Elections Coalition and has served as a consultant to various
political and nonprofit groups, including the Center for Voting and Democracy,
Israel Venture Network, and the Mental Health Association of San Francisco. He
received a MA in Psychology from the University of California at Berkeley,
where he attended on a National Science Foundation Fellowship, and a BA in
Biomedical Ethics from Brown University. He lives in Berkeley, California.
Tim Bonnemann - Founder, Intellitics
Sarah Schacht - Director, Knowledge As Power
Sarah Schacht searches for simple solutions to complex social problems.
Eagerly involved in politics from an early age, she's been a
conservative and a liberal, working for a range of causes and
campaigns. In 2003, she worked on Howard Dean's presidential campaign
in New Hampshire, Dean's national headquarters, Iowa, and Washington
State. She specialized in youth outreach, online organizing, and field
work. In 2004 she was one of the youngest delegates to the Democratic
National Convention, and in 2005 she interned for Congressman Jay
Inslee's office, where she researched communications systems within
Congress. Returning home to Washington State, she founded Knowledge As
Power, a 501c3 nonpartisan organization which helps Washingtonians
track legislation on any issue and communicate effectively with their
legislators. Sarah is a 2008 Echoing Green Semi-Finalist, a Sunlight
Foundation grantee, and a contributor to an upcoming book on American
government and communications technology.
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