The Internet Archive is aiming to build a library for democracy
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Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle, writing on their blog:
The aim of the Internet Archive Democracy’s Library is to collect, preserve and make freely available all the published works of all the democracies– the federal, provincial, and municipal government publications– so that we can efficiently learn from each other to solve our biggest challenges in parallel and in concert.
Democracy’s Library is the foundational information of free people.
There’s no link to a working site because nothing exists yet. It’s an ambitious idea and if anyone can actually get there, it’s the good folks that power archive.org.
From the tone of the post, it seems like the ultimate site will be at least somewhat crowdsourced. I can imagine that they’ll provide tools and resources and rely on local groups to find the docs and keep their respective sites filled with content.