Government 2.0 challenges — and some solutions
This afternoon, I was at the New America Foundation’s Wiki White House forum held at Google’s DC offices. It was a fascinating session featuring Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, Mindy Finn, director of e-strategy for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, Ellen Miller, executive director of the Sunlight Foundation, and Sascha Meinrath, research director for the New America Foundation’s wireless future program. I’ll flesh out my thoughts for a full post this weekend, but… you can read my very rough notes here… and you can also search Twitter for people who used #WWH on their posts.
One document that is getting a lot of attention is the one below, Social Media and the Federal Government: Perceived and Real Barriers and Potential Solutions. Federal News Radio 1500 AM’s Jason Miller spoke to GSA’s Bev Godwin about this document. That will air on the Daily Debrief with Chris Dorobek and Amy Morris on Tuesday… and it will be posted on WFED’s Tracking the Transition page.
But… read it for yourself.
Thanks for sharing this with us, Chris. Useful information and it’s great to see gov. really wrestling with social media just like the rest of the business world. While a little later, the adoption cycle may actually be almost identical as far as end date.
Geoff Livingston
January 9, 2009 at 2:30 PM
While it is nice to see the government trying to adapt to the modern age, I think we may be better off changing the government more substantially.
See for example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_governance
or more practically:
http://www.metagovernment.org/wiki/Main_Page
Alex T
January 9, 2009 at 6:06 PM
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January 11, 2009 at 1:31 PM
Chris:
Sounds like a very interesting meeting — looking forward to the full writeup.
I read that paper — does a very good job of laying out the stumbling blocks, and making recs for each. Clearly putting a lot on the incoming CTO. He or she will have to be an effective public educator and communicator. It won’t get done by fiat alone.
P.S. Also thought Gran Torino was very good!
Chris Parente
January 11, 2009 at 6:04 PM
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