Daniel Bennett

Daniel Bennett is the Chief Technology Officer of the eCitizen Foundation which is dedicated to helping improve civic engagement. He is currently an invited expert of the W3C’s eGov Interest Group, member of the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament's Working Group on XML in Parliament, and recently served the Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet as a Practitioner-in-Residence. Previously, Daniel Bennett was the Chief Technology Officer of @dvocacy Inc. He co-founded DotGov Communications, the first private webhoster for Members of Congress. Daniel was Technology Liaison for Congresswoman Anna Eshoo, representative from California 's Silicon Valley for whom he drafted the Government Paperwork Elimination Act, the first federal law making electronic signatures legal and that forms were to be put on the Internet so that they could be signed and submitted electronically. He also co-drafted the ESIGN Act allowing electronic signatures for commercial use. He served as president of the House Systems Administrators Association, co-chair of the Legislative Documents Technical Committee of OASIS/LegalXML and won the Federal Computer Week's Fed 100 Award in 2000. He is a writer on technology and politics, including co-author of "The Net Effect: How Cyberadvocacy is Changing the Political Landscape" and was a columnist for The Cloakroom, a web site for the National Journal.