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

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6C396893C124F5F6

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

What are your thoughts on Government 2.0?

Tags: Collaboration, Fav Five Friday, Gov 2.0, Government 2.0

Open Source: Social Media, Web, Government, & US 2.0 #oscon

Mobile Enterprise 2.0 and Social Media growth explosion happens because of Crowd Sourcing and Open Source. The world is changing and we have great opportunities in front of us. The Web 2.0 and Government 2.0 movement is taking us into new frontiers where we will explore fresh new ways of communication and collaboration. There have been many things going on this week that has me thinking more about the internet as an operating system. Open Source: “Some of the best things in life are free”. While the value of open source is recognized by more private companies and government agencies, I am wondering more about the future of open source. Here are a few videos I hope you share with your friends.

Happy Fav Five Friday!

“Once again, this nation has said there are no dreams too large, no innovation unimaginable and no frontiers beyond our reach.” ~ John S. Herrington

“Rebuilding the World” by Don Tapscott

The global economic crisis is a wakeup call to the world: we need to rethink and rebuild many of the organizations and institutions that have served us well for decades, but now have come to the end of their life cycle. The financial services industry, for example, does not just need fresh infusion of capital or some new regulations; it needs a whole new operating model — one based on transparency, sharing of intellectual property and global governance.

The new keynote “Rebuilding the World” by Don Tapscott from Sander Duivestein on Vimeo.

Tim O’Reilly: Open Source & Government 2.0 – DIO #oscon

US Now

A film about democracy, mass collaboration and the internet. Featuring interviews with Alan Cox, Matthew Taylor, Liam Daish, Clay Shirky, George Osborne MP, and Ed Milliband MP.

Net Neutrality Open Source Documentary

Remember this? Barack Obama: On Net Neutrality

Tags: Cloud Computing, Enterprise 2.0, Gov 2.0, Government 2.0, Platforms, Social Media, Web 2.0, Web Strategy

Government as a Platform: Letting Others Bridge the GaaP #GOV20

Our government has a tremendous amount of data to manage.  Government agencies also spend a lot of money and time sharing information with the public.  This effort has moved to the internet over the past few years with the creation of web sites, that usually require great effort to update.  A huge amount of money and time can be saved by the government simply sharing data.  We see the improvement in the movement toward Government 2.0 with the creation of web resource http://data.gov

Gov 2.0, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, iPhone Apps, & Mashups

Government 2.0 supporters can plainly see examples from internet giants like Twitter, Google, Yahoo, and Apple.  Twitter has an easy to understand  Application Programing Interface (API), that is well documented and easy to use http://apiwiki.twitter.com/. Others have used “Twitter Data” to create some very amazing things that people use every day.  A ton of people have contributed to Google in many ways, I really like Google Gadgets.  How about “Gov Gadgets“?  Yahoo, the God Father of Social Media has taken advantage of “user generated content” for years.  They have also surfaced interesting “collective intelligence” from everyone’s efforts.  I really like Yahoo Pipes http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/, a simple user interface for creating data mashups.  How about “Gov Pipes“?  How much money and time would Apple need to invest, if they had to create every app in the iPhone App store?  A simple API and delivery method has added unmeasurable value to the Apple iPhone.  How about “Gov Apps“? The internet is packed with successful stories and examples of how users add value.  This holds true for blogging tools too, like WordPress. WordPress Widgets is a simple method of users adding information and value to their blogs.  What about “Gov Widgets“?  A library of “Gov Widgets” would allow people to share important government information with their targeted audience.  When it comes right down to the core needs, it is about the data.  Most users will need a simple API to use the data.  It’s hard to imagine that new government sites will not be created in the future.  I hope future developers will design with SOA in mind.

Government Data and the Invisible Hand

By David Robinson, Harlan Yu, William Zeller, and Edward W. Felten
11 Yale J.L. & Tech. 160

This paper proposes an approach to online government data that leverages both the American tradition of entrepreneurial self-reliance and the remarkable low-cost flexibility of contemporary digital technology. The idea, though it can be implemented in a comfortably incremental fashion, is ultimately transformative. It leads toward an ecosystem of grassroots, unplanned solutions to online civic needs.

Government Data and the Invisible Hand

Tags: Change, Gov 2.0, Government 2.0, Platforms, strategy, Web Strategy