Clay Johnson, director of Sunlight Labs, gave a call to arms to software developers at Web2.0 Expo last month. In his presentation, available here, he encourages software developers and designers to push for greater government transparency by:

• creating visualizations of government information
• creating screenshots (comps) of redesigned government websites
• becoming community organizers and convening open government hackathons

A nice quote:

"Software is faster than concensus. We can get government to change by writing code and writing websites faster than we can get members of congress to agree how to do it. So let's do it for them." (minute 14)

At around minute 27, Johnson talks about the power of a screenshot of a redesigned government website to spur change.  One of the most popular posts on the Sunlight Labs blog featured a mock-up of a redesigned FEC web site.  The post go thousands of hits -- from inside the FEC intranet.  This was promptly followed by a call from the FEC chairman about re-designing the site.

If you were to pick a federal department website in Canada to re-design, which one would it be?