Twenty-sixth in the News Commons series.
On the left is Tom Evslin, former CTO for Vermont. On the right is the golden dome atop Vermont’s capitol building. Underneath that dome, and in countless spaces in government bodies everywhere are meetings recorded in video. Reviewing or reporting on those meetings is a chore. Unless that is, you use Smart Transcripts—an invention by Tom that shortens the work of reviewing a meeting by using its transcript to navigate its video. It’s open source, working in Vermont, and ready for anyone to use anywhere.
This Wednesday at Noon (Eastern time) Tom will explain where this invention came from and how it works in a talk titled Lifting the Lid on the Golden Dome: How SmartTranscripts open legislative sessions to everyone in Vermont—or anywhere. This is the latest in our Beyond the Web salon series for the Ostrom Workshop and the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University:
If you care about journalism, how government works, and improving our civic institutions, this will be a highly leveraged hour for you.
It’s free and on Zoom at this link: https://doc.searls.com/2025/02/23/lifting-the-lid/
See you there.
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