Gov 2.0: Real Collaboration, Participation, & Transparency #g2s #gov20

Some of the top minds in technology and government, along with many other smart people clearing the path on our journey towards Government 2.0 gathered together in the Washington DC area in September 2009 to share insights about our changing world.  The main events were the Gov 2.0 Expo and Gov 2.0 Summit.  The amazing part of these events is that they are “living events”.  These Government 2.0 events are scheduled in the past, but participation is ongoing.  I encourage you to visit their web sites to see how you can get involved.  Your voice matters, make a difference today!

The Exponential Value of Collaboration

The Gov 2.0 Summit and Gov 2.0 Expo events are great examples of demonstrating the exponential value of collaboration with the use of Web 2.0 tools.  You can easily add and extract value because the way the information is shared in a truly collaborative environment.  The use of Social Media has opened the flood gates of participation and collaboration.

The information from these events is of great value, but the demonstration of how to share thoughts and ideas is priceless.  These events are successfully using Twitter, YouTube, Blip, SlideShare, Blogs, Wikis, Web Sites, and other social media tools to exponentially increase their value.  This gives many other people that could not physically attend these events the ability to participate.  This also gives the presenters an audience that could not fit into any man-made physical structure.  Can you imagine a room big enough to fit a million people?  How would you manually capture all their comments and suggestions? Web 2.0 gives us presentation rooms and collaborative envorinments that are not constrained by time and space.

Government 2.0 Expo & Summit

Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase 2009

The Platform for Change Over the past fifteen years, the rise of the World Wide Web has resulted in remarkable new possibilities and business models reshaping our culture and our economy. Now the time has come to reshape government. With the proliferation of issues and a scarcity of resources to address them all, leaders inside and outside government are turning to the principles of participation, collaboration, transparency, and efficiency to address the challenges facing our country and the world. This is the agenda of the Gov 2.0 Summit. http://www.gov2summit.com

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Gov 2.0 Summit

Gov 2.0 Summit, a new government technology conference co-produced by O’Reilly Media and TechWeb, capitalizes on the momentum for change and broad engagement, creating a non-partisan forum for addressing the monumental challenges our nation faces by applying the Web 2.0 principles of user engagement, rapid development, and real-time intelligence. Gov 2.0 Summit will bring together influential stake-holders in government, industry, non-profits, and academia to make government more transparent and accountable, reinvent the contracting ecosystem, and feature best practices and case studies to demonstrate how tasks can be accomplished more effectively and cheaply. http://gov2summit.blip.tv

The Lean Startup Gov 2.0 Summit Edition

Gov 2.0 Summit 2009 Flickr Photos by Alex Dunne

Gov 2.0 Summit Tweets on Twitter

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