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- What Do Government 2.0 and Cloud Have in Common Beyond the Hype?
- by Andrea Di Maio. Gartner, September 9, 2010. "Last night I decided to spend a couple of hours replaying videos from the Gov 2.0 Summit held in DC on September 7 and 8. Two things struck me. First of all, the obsession of Tim O’Reilly and friends with the term 'government as a platform' ... Secondly, and more importantly, whereas last year most conversations were about social networks and open data, this year cloud computing seems to have gained a more prominent place at the table..."
Added: 9 September 2010;
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- Becoming Citizen 2.0: Step One, Consumer
- Posted by: Gadi Ben-Yehuda. IBM Center for the Business of Government, Wednesday, September 8, 2010. "Finding and engaging with personally-relevant government media is the first step to becoming Citizen 2.0. What does it mean to be a consumer and why should anyone bother? These are the first two questions that we, as Gov 2.0 advocates, should ask ourselves when exhorting our compatriots to take a more active role in their own governance. The first question is easily answered: to be a consumer is the least time-consuming way to become involved in government. It means that you read the information that government bodies publish with the goal of understanding three things: 1. What projects the government is executing or contemplating; 2. What goals those activities are seeking to achieve; and 3. How government agencies will implement their programs. Or, more briefly: what is the government doing, why is it doing that, and how is it being done..."
Added: 9 September 2010;
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- Meeting half-way: Becoming Citizen 2.0
- Posted by: Gadi Ben-Yehuda. IBM Center for the Business of Government, Thursday, September 2, 2010. "For Gov 2.0 to work, Government is only half the equation. Citizens are the other half. Here's how they can get involved..."
Added: 3 September 2010;
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- On Language: Putting Government 2.0 in Context
- by Alex Howard. Gov 2.0 govFresh, August 29, 2010. "Does the public need to understand what the term Government 2.0 means? ... For those more technically inclined, it might be useful to talk about open data, mashups, Data.gov, the Open Government directive, XML, XBRL, virtualization, cloud computing, social media and a host of other terms that have meaning in context but without prior knowledge do little to inform the public about what, precisely, the '2.0' means..."
Added: 2 September 2010;
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- Gov 2.0: Applying open data to open government
- by Alex Howard. Govfresh, September 1, 2010. "Earlier this summer, the Knight Foundation convened a panel of experts on open source and open government at the 2010 Future of News and Civic Media Conference at MIT to consider whether open data can be used to fuel positive social change. If you missed the event or video when it was first posted, it’s well worth your time..."
Added: 2 September 2010;
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- O'Reilly, Open Government and the Ingenuity of Enthusiasm
- by Andrea Di Maio. Gartner, August 27, 2010. "I just read an interview that Tim O'Really gave to The Hill about government 2.0. In this interview, he reinforces his faith into 'government as a platform', praises the Federal CIO Vivek Kundra for his open government activities and – most importantly – stresses that open government and open data is not only about transparency, but about the ability to create feedback loops that allow government to understand and improve its performances. Although I disagree with Tim about the concept of government as a platform, I like his attempt of pushing the whole debate toward the use of open data, rather than talking about the abstract value of transparency..."
Added: 30 August 2010;
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- O'Reilly: Government needs to close the feedback loop
- By Gautham Nagesh. The Hill, 25 August 2010. "The government must take a page from the technology industry by learning how to measure the effectiveness of its programs, according to tech evangelist and O'Reilly Media founder Tim O'Reilly... "There's lots of focus on social media and outreach, but that's the easy stuff. The stuff that's hard that's been really transformative for industry is to create real-time feedback loops using data," O'Reilly said during a conversation Wednesday with Hillicon Valley..."
Added: 30 August 2010;
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- Social Media and Gov 2.0 are Contact Sports
- by Alan W. Silberberg. The Huffington Post, August 25, 2010. "Social media is a contact sport. No doubt about it. People get bashed all the time. One only needs to look at the public timelines of Twitter or Facebook to see that. Having said that, specifically Gov 2.0 is a contact sport too. Write one off sounding blog or comment, and see how unforgiving the social media arena can be..."
Added: 26 August 2010;
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- Cost is only part of the Gov 2.0 open source story
- Washington, D.C. CTO Bryan Sivak adds realism to his open source advocacy, by Mac Slocum. O'Reilly Radar, 23 August 2010. "Bryan Sivak, chief technology officer for the District of Columbia and a speaker at the upcoming Gov 2.0 Summit, has smartly mixed healthy realism with enthusiastic support for open source in government. The result is a message that resonates beyond open source evangelists..."
Added: 24 August 2010;
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- Government 2.0 heading down fragmented path
- By Steve Hodgkinson, Ovum, ZDNet Australia, August 19, 2010. "The Victorian State Government recently released a Government 2.0 Action Plan, further evidence of the growing momentum behind the use of Web 2.0 as an agent of public sector reform. However, this is starting to resemble the early years of the government online and e-government phases, with their useful, but fragmented, outcomes. Effective leadership and coordination of Government 2.0 across agencies will, as always, be a critical ingredient of success..."
Added: 19 August 2010;
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- Victoria releases best-practice Gov 2.0 Action Plan
- eGov AU - Craig Thomler's professional blog - eGovernment and Gov 2.0 thoughts and speculations from an Australian perspective, Thursday, August 12, 2010. "Victoria has maintained its lead over other Australian states in the adoption of Government 2.0 through today's release of the Government 2.0 Action Plan - Victoria. The Plan outlines four priority areas for Gov 2.0: 1. Driving adoption in the VPS > Leadership; 2. Engaging communities and citizens > Participation; 3. Opening up government > Transparency; 4. Building capability > Performance..."
Added: 12 August 2010;
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- Does Gov 2.0 require government leadership or participation?
- eGov AU - Craig Thomler's professional blog - eGovernment and Gov 2.0 thoughts and speculations from an Australian perspective, Wednesday, August 11, 2010. "This post is in reflection to a post by Nicholas Gruen over at Club Troppo entitled, What Coalition Politicians 'get' Government 2.0? For me the post triggered a broader question - does Gov 2.0 require government leadership or participation? I think examples from both Australia and overseas demonstrate that the mass enablement of societies via the internet can - and does - proceed without government leadership, encouragement, involvement and even in face of significant political and public sector resistance..."
Added: 12 August 2010;
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- What Coalition Politicians 'get' Government 2.0?
- Posted by Nicholas Gruen. Club Troppo, Tuesday, August 10, 2010. "I was asked at a Departmental seminar today whether the election of a Coalition Government would set back Government 2.0. I said I didn't know, but that even if it did not have as much support from an incoming government as it has had in this term, the main tasks ahead of us were cultural, that the heavy policy lifting had taken place and that I couldn't see that work being undone by a change of government, though the atmospherics can be important this early in a transition to greater use of Web 2.0 in government..."
Added: 12 August 2010;
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- Government and e–participation programs: A study of the challenges faced by institutional projects
- by Francisco Paulo Jamil Almeida Marques. First Monday, Volume 15, Number 8 - 2 August 2010. "This paper examines the difficulties faced by government projects aimed at fostering citizens' political participation by using the Internet. After presenting the participatory tools found on two institutional Web sites (the Brazilian Presidency and the House of Representatives), I examine how the constraints pointed out by a relevant part of the literature in e–participation are reflected in such initiatives. Promoting online participation needs more than providing communication resources, since civic culture and other issues are still key factors in influencing our patterns of political involvement. A participatory use of digital tools depends more on circumstances, such as institutional willingness, than on technical mechanisms available..."
Added: 12 August 2010;
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- Knowledge is a mashup
- Dig into the Smithsonian Commons and you'll find Gov 2.0 in action, by Vanessa Fox. O'Reilly Radar, August 10, 2010. "These days, we hear a lot about open data, open government, and Gov 2.0. President Obama's Open Government directive has given us access to huge data sets through avenues such as data.gov. But we have a lot more assets as a country than just digital 0s and 1s in CSV files. We also have artifacts and science and history and experts. Can open government apply to those assets as well? If the Smithsonian Commons project is any indication, the answer is yes. I talked to Michael Edson, director of Web and New Media Strategy for the Smithsonian about the project. The Commons, which is currently being prototyped, is one of the best examples I've seen of "Gov 2.0 in action."..."
Added: 12 August 2010;
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