If there’s one thing we learn from Apple’s iPhone, it’s the power of a platform to spark innovation. Apple revolutionized the smartphone market not just by producing an innovative phone, but by opening up that phone to independent developers. As if by magic, the 15 to 20 applications they designed and released themselves soon became hundreds of thousands, in a textbook demonstration of just what can happen when you harness the power of the marketplace.

So too, government programs can be designed as platforms rather than as fully-specified applications. At Gov 2.0 Summit we’ll be speaking to leaders and innovators in the places where government and technology converge to improve efficiency and delivery of citizen services.

Topic Spotlight: The Power of Platforms

In this topic area of the program, we look at some key areas where government is demonstrating strategic mastery of platform thinking, as well as at some innovative private sector programs that can be adapted for government use. Key sessions and speakers include:

• Government Data and the Invisible Hand (Harlan Yu, Princeton University)
• Why EMR’s Will Transform Healthcare (Jim Traficant, Healthcare Solutions)
• XBRL in the Federal NIEM Framework (Mark Bolgiano, XBRL and Donna Roy, U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security)
• Why the FCC has a Chief Data Officer (Greg Elin, FCC)
  
• Open Government Scorecard (Ellen Miller, Sunlight Foundation)
• Building a “Holy Cow Machine” for Healthcare (Todd Park, Dept. of Health and Human Services)
• Developers, Developers, Developers (Indu Subaiaya, Health 2.0 and Clay Johnson, InfoVegan.com)
• PayPal: What we Do with Private Data from 200 Million People (Osama Bedier, PayPal)

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We hope you can join us next month in Washington, D.C. Attendance at Gov 2.0 Summit is by invitation only. Reserve your seat today and request an invitation.