Category: Government 2.0
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CrowdCampaign turns Twitter into a Crowdsourcing Engine
I recently wrote about giving your suggestion box a 2.0 twist with low-cost online collaboration and voting technologies. Crowdsourcing from stakeholders and front-line employees is one of the key areas where Web 2.0 technologies can help government, and last week I had the opportunity to talk with Clinton Bonner about CrowdCampaign, a Twitter app that…
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Diabetes Fighters Win GovLoop Charity Contest
I want to give a quick shout out to GovLoop and Adventures for the Cure. GovLoop, the “Facebook for Government,” wound down a great year with a charity contest that used crowdsourcing tech to allow members to nominate and vote for charities and to raise money by inviting friends and completing challenges. The contest ended…
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Is 2010 the Year #Gov20 becomes #Gov2?
Did you know that the term “gov 2” simply crushes all other variations of the Gov 2.0 meme in global Google search traffic? Check it out – more than triple the searches for “government 2.0” and more than 10 times “gov 2.0.” I wish I could explain what this means. (O’Reilly Media is onto the…
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People-Focused Reform: Where’s the Pain Point?
Intriguing conversation tonight on Gov 2.0 Radio with Lewis Shepherd of Microsoft. Shepherd, an experienced leader in intelligence IT projects, argued that the most successful government IT projects – GPS, the Internet – have come in secretive environments. What does that mean for Gov 2.0, open government and “government as a platform?” “I’d like to…
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What Comes Next?
An interesting presentation caught my eye this week, and it’s well worth sharing. It’s titled 2015, the web is dead, and if you can ignore a few typos, it’s a powerful look at where infotech is headed – decentralized, mobile, integrated. It also ties in with a point that Deloitte analyst Bill Eggers made on…
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“The Stargate Trap”: From Politics to Implementation
In a new book that applies systems thinking to complex government initiatives, “If We Can Put a Man on the Moon … Getting Big Things Done in Government,” authors Bill Eggers and John O’Leary describe the moment that a public initiative translates from design to reality – the moment of legislative passage – in scifi…
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