“We the people…”, the opening of the US Constitution, is a reminder that our government is nothing other than an expression of the collective will of the citizens. No divine right of kings, no entitled nobles, just we, the people. And government is a mechanism by which we express our will. A mechanism that is being turbocharged by the participatory technologies of the web, social media, and mobile phones.

Key sessions and speakers in this topic include:

• Do You Have What it Takes to Change Government? (Walton Smith, Grant McLaughlin, Booz Allen Hamilton)
• A Conversation with California Secretary of State Debra Bowen
• Why We Need Open Source Electronic Voting Systems (Gregory Miller, Open Source Digital Voting Foundation)
• Making States Work Better (Ory Okolloh, Ushadhi; Clare Lockhart, The Institute for State Effectiveness; Steve Killelea, Institute for Economics and Peace)
• The Civic Commons: Code Sharing Between Cities (Bryan Sivak, Government of the District of Columbia; Jennifer Pahlka, Code for America)
• Creating Passionate Citizens (Kathy Sierra, Creating Passionate Users)
• The Need for Enterprise 2.0 in the Military (Blake Hall, TroopSwap.com)
• Brightscope: Data Fuels the Innovation Economy (Mike Alfred, Brightscope)
• One Step, Many Feet: How Technology is Changing the Relationship Between Citizen and Government (Stacy Donohue, Omidyar Network)
• Building Curriculum Around Real World Problems (Elizabeth Coleman, Bennington College)
• Empowerment and Innovation – A New Generation of Government (Walton Smith, Booz Allen Hamilton)

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