User:Silona

The best way to verify who I am is to search on "silona" for the most part it will be me.

My central blog is at http://silona.org This links to most of my other online personas.

My Full name is Silona Bonewald. I live in Austin Texas though I travel so much I am rarely home.

My interests are Open Data, Open Government, Open Banking. I believe that electronic records have long been taking privacy away from the individual. I don't think that will change. So I strive for balance and believe that large entities like government and business should have to be just as transparent as the individual is forced to be.

I am a long time geek - as the google search has probably shown. My first computer was a kaypro 2 in 1982. I do large scale systems architecture and database design. I love teaching.

My most famous though not completed project was the "transparent federal budget" where I wanted to wikify the budget.

My current passion is http://citability.org which asks that every publicly available Government document be online and citable to the paragraph level. I think that would help out citations here on wikipedia big time!

look forward to your comments!