If it were possible to create a map that conveyed in broad strokes 'How it works' to your average citizen, I think it would be a major contribution. And it could be something that we would make open source, but branded as an ET production - another way to get ET out into the media.
Scoop doesn't have the best tools to confer on visuals, but Colman's illustrative rough sketches of principles for the photoblog show what can be done. I could envision us getting quite far in Scoop with defining the structure of such a map, but at some point designers have to go away and come up with solutions.
Would you like to open a separate diary on this at some point? You can't be me, I'm taken
I imagined you providing something a little more gestalty... You can't be me, I'm taken
Missing is: a list of all the areas subject to codecision (articles 251 and 252). When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. — John M. Keynes
Our job would be to simplify and to help anyone understand the processes - 'at a glance'. People do not read Treaties (and why should they?) because they are framed in impenetrable language for legal reasons.
A well designed gestalt picture of the processes could not contain all that we need to know. But if we could come up with a basic visual representation, then that base picture could be used to overlay different ways of looking at the EU.
As examples, the same base picture could be used to show the election processes, the flow of funds, the budgets of bureaucracies, the initiatives such as REACH, inter-member trade, etc etc You can't be me, I'm taken
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Give me a map. When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. — John M. Keynes
