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From politics to business to society, we envision a more democratic world.

WILD9, the 9th World Wilderness Congress convenes from 6-13 November in Merida, Mexico. Using new communications tools and equipped with training, young leaders will communicate the importance of this global gathering, prior to, during and following the Congress.  The program will enhance the skills and experiences of young leaders and support The WILD Foundation's goal to effectively communicate the excitement, action and outcomes of WILD9.

Ask Your Lawmaker draws its information from three primary sources: user-generated questions and comments; lawmaker responses to user questions; and CNC exclusive news reporting as informed by users of AYL widgets. Because widgets are customizable by state and issue, CNC reporters have a better understanding of local concerns and issues. The plan is to team with government transparency sites like Maplight.org and Open Congress, bloggers and issue-based sites and social networks such as Care2.com to provide AYL users with raw data necessary to inform questions and evaluate answers towards active and effective citizen engagement. We want to build APIs that link to supporting information from other sources, encourage collaboration and allow sites and blogs to build on the answers via partnerships with citizen journalists site such as Helium.com. where API would allow debate around lawmaker answers to continue and translate talk into action. We want AYL users to create and collaborate on news stories or follow-up on original CNC coverage by mashing up audio of lawmaker responses with supporting or contradictory data provided by partner sites, bloggers and public radio stations and first hand experience based on user comments.