May 27th, 2010 |
Jaimey Walking Bear
Chris Kemp, NASA’s CTO of Information Technology, speaks with O’Reilly Media’s Alex Howard about Nebula, open standards, innovation and more at the Gov 2.0 Expo in Washington, D.C.
May 27th, 2010 |
Jaimey Walking Bear
Post via Alexander Howard | @digphile
Can state governments deliver more services with constrained budgets? How can social media and collaborative software be used to engage citizens and lead to better policy decisions or investments? Can open government lead to better e-government? In this interview, Alex Howard, Government 2.0 Washington Correspondent for O’Reilly Media, interview Carolyn Lawson about precisely these issues. Lawson is the Deputy Director, Technology Services Governance Division, Director of the eServices Office of the state of California.
You can read more about how California is delivering e-services over the Internet in a previous post on this blog.
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Jaimey Walking Bear is on the Marketing team for Gov 2.0 Expo. He can be reached @gov2events or @jaimeywb
Cross posted from Mashable; Original post by Alexander Howard, May 10, 2010
Alexander B. Howard is the Government 2.0 Washington Correspondent for O’Reilly Media, where he reports on how technology, open government and online civics. He’ll be reporting live from the upcoming Gov2.0 Expo in Washington, D.C., on May 25-27.
What is government 2.0? Tim O’Reilly describes it as government working as a platform. Others might describe it as applying the technologies that make up Web 2.0 to the practice of government, including blogs, wikis, social networking and crowdsourcing. The simplest way of describing government 2.0 may be any technology that helps citizens or agencies solve problems, either for individuals or the community, and enables government to operate more efficiently or effectively.
Read the entire article at mashable.com
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Jaimey Walking Bear is on the Marketing team for Gov 2.0 Expo. He can be reached @gov2events or @jaimeywb
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