Tag Archives: government 2.0
What’s new with Government 2.0 Club
Posted on 21. Apr, 2009 by mixtmedia.
I hope that you’ve had a good few weeks since Government 2.0 Camp. It’s good to be back in touch with you to share some ways to continue our Government 2.0 discussions and participation.
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Join the Government 2.0 Club Google Group (if you have not done so already) to continue to participate in discussions about Government 2.0 Club. Your membership will need to be approved (a measure to reduce spammers).
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Follow @Gov20Camp on Twitter for future communications and event info.
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Contribute to the creation of Government 2.0 Camp THE BOOK! To get out of the Government 2.0 “echo chamber” and help communicate the value of government 2.0 beyond the “goverati” community, Government 2.0 Camp attendee, Nancy Faget, is initiating an effort to write and publish a Government 2.0 Camp book. To be part of this effort, participate in this thread on our Google Group.
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Drink the rest of the Gov20Camp’s sponsorship funds at Government 2.0 Club’s Constructive Happy Hour on Monday, May 11, 2009, at 18th Street Lounge. We will reconvene the tribe and start to gather around specific topics of interest for future events/initiatives.
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Shape the structure of Government 2.0 Club by participating in the discussion on the Google Group: an entity? an unentity? a board? officers? – discuss.
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Party with the DC & Baltimore tech communities at the amazing and always enormous TwinTech4 on May 28, 2009.
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On June 2, 2009, Jeffrey Levy and some other brave EPAers are leading their annual grown-up field trip King’s Dominion to ride the rollercoaster Rebel Yell. It’s a chance to hang out and have some fun with your fellow “govies” without any work agenda. Stay tuned to the Government 2.0 Club blog for details.
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Participate in CrisisCamp (June 13-14, 2009), the next exciting unconference about improving technology and practice for humanitarian crisis management and disaster relief.
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Calling All Citizen Innovators - Get Ready for Data.gov!
Posted on 18. Apr, 2009 by corbett3000.
If you missed the recent post by The Sunlight Foundation’s Sunlight Labs about “Redesigning the Government: Data.gov” make sure you read it, because it’s a brilliant look at what Vivek Kundra’s proposed Data.gov could be.
Government 2.0 Club was created to bring together folks who are interested in using technology to better deliver services to citizens, and provide efficiency within and between government agencies of all kinds - and in that vein we’re doing our part to make sure that Data.gov will be one of the most important innovations in government since…well…ever maybe.
There will surely be a groundswell around Data.gov once their first batches of open government data go live (rumored to be at coming out at the end of May). In preparation for this event please fill out this simple form, which will enable us to do the following:
1) Bring developers all over America and the world together to participate in citizen driven innovation opportunities like code jams, BarCamps, contests like Apps for Democracy & Apps for America and meet-ups that will focus on Data.gov
2) Help the technology community have a say in how and what gets published to Data.gov
3) Invite you to meet other like minds that are interested in mashing up Data.gov content
Sign-up for updates here. Tell your friends!
Oh and you can always sign-up to guest blog here if you want to tell people what you think about Data.gov or anything else government 2.0 related.
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Cloud Computing, Web 2.0, and Web 3.0 Semantic Web
Posted on 28. Mar, 2009 by mollymoran.
Mills Davis, of Project10X, is leading a session called, “From E-Gov to Connected Governance: What is the Role of Cloud Computing, Web 2.0, and Web 3.0 Semantic Technologies in an Era of Connected Governance?”. It’s a full room, and right now we’re introducing ourselves. Seems there are many technical people here.
Eek - technical difficulties! Mills will begin without the projector.
Connected governance: we’re moving to a digital age democracy (to participatory, engaged, integrated interactions between gov’t and citizens). New models and ecosystems for engagement, interaction, decision-making, and service delivery.
The “next internet”: internet of services, things, and 3D interactivity; virtualized infrastructure and everything as a service. Cloud computing is: scalable, on-demand, click-and-run, pay-by-the-drink resources and services provisioned over the Internet.
One benefit of “pay-by-the-drink” is not having to go through the procurement cycle.
What is Web 3.0? A web of meanings. Semantic technologies represent knowledge separately from documents, data, and program code.
How does this apply to search? Recovery, discovery, intelligence, question answering, and smart behaviors.
Next generation collaboration? Combining wikis, semantic content tools, semantic search, ontology-driven applications, and intelligent user interfaces.
Mills gives seven steps that every agency can take (see last slide of presentation).
Good question from the audience about how to deal with inter-disciplinary knowledge: how does the semantic web combine knowledge when we have different understandings of what things mean? Mills’ answer: we deal with this problem in all discourse (conflict, ambiguity, etc) - it’s part of the knowledge.
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Citizen 2.0
Posted on 28. Mar, 2009 by Andrew J. Cohen.
Introductions:
Session facilitator: Andrea Baker (@immunity), Navstar, Inc.
Alan Rosenblatt: Disturbed to learn that Yahoo trademarked “citizen 2.0″ about 1.5 year ago! Perfer “citizen 2.0″ to “web 2.0″ because it’s about individuals.
Roxie Merrit, Department of Defense
Noel Dickover, Communibuild.com
Lucas Cioffi, co-founder, Deepdebate.org
Alan Silberberg, You2gov.net
Wayne Burke: openforumfoundation.org - building open platform for voter verification, etc.
openthegovernment.org - a coalition of organizations (over half state-based.
Eric Brown from FEC - polticalactivitylaw.com
Federal Practice for Gov delivery
Todd Pitt: need to provide tools and also let them know they now have an opportunity to participate. How do you keep them engaged and not get discouraged.
Census Bureau - as 2010 census comes up, we need better ways to reach/engage citizens so that they participate.
Kevin - xmdr.org
Anne Baker, grad student, works at Library of Congress
Ryan Alexander - Booze Allen Hamilton
Xena Washington - Social Media Consultant at IBM. How do we plan to respond when citizens actually start interacting.
Discussion
Was it a problem that the marijuana pro-legalization crowd dominated the question submission/voting for White House’s online town hall this week. Is this a problem? ” Use ambition to counteract ambition” (James Madison) to make sure both sides are heard.
A fundamental shift is needed to release things. It’s not like many agencies are sitting on information that is structured in a pristine format. It’s all messy. It’s going to take time.
Several participants felt like that Obama (and media) marginized pro-marijuana activists who used new tools to bring their issue to the fore. People just dismissed it as “orchestrated.”
The questions that were answered were not the end of the White House discussion. This is new data that they can mine going forward.
But this tactic was a “web 2.0″ method. It increased the connection between government and citizens.
Example: Lance Armstrong’s bike was found and returned via people who learned about it via Twitter. Local police then started monitoring twitter (and relevant hashtags to monitor local happenings).
Question: Is Twitter (or microblogging generally) the most influential “citizen 2.0″ tool? (one person felt that connections are stronger via MySpace, etc.)
Book: Gareth Morgan “Images of Organization” — recommended book to understanding how beauracracies work (Organization as a Machine).
The power of social media is to spread the right message to the right audience — faster.
Plus these tools are “levelers.”
Question: Can we get someone like Guy Kawasaki and others to start using a common hashtag to aggregate “citizen20″ resources on alltop, and make it more easily found on Google.
How do we get the citizen’s trust. For some agencies — such as Federal Election Commission (FEC) is difficult. Tools can help build trust.
Industry messages — and co-option of social media tools — often have trouble gaining traction when people don’t see the value for themselves.
Hill staff are so busy, but will work with you if the information you provide to them is high-quality, and they know that they can trust you. For example, if they send you a draft of a bill in confidence, they can trust you won’t share it, if they ask you to not to.
Links mentioned:
http://www.communibuild.com/2009/03/16/putting-citizens-on-par-with-lobbyists/
http://adrielhampton.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/what-the-perfect-citizen-20-training/
http://blogs.zdnet.com/feeds/?p=331
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Maxine Teller’s Opening Remarks
Posted on 28. Mar, 2009 by mixtmedia.
Here are Maxine Teller’s opening remarks in case you missed Friday at Government 2.0 Camp.
Good morning!
I’m extremely honored to welcome you to Government 2.0 Camp 2009!
Let me just say, these two days are going to rock your world.
We are an astounding 500 government leaders & thinkers who have come together to share, to learn, and to create the future of government.
For how many of you is this your first unconference?
Wow. That’s great! Thanks so much for coming and taking a leap of faith!
This is only my second unconference.
I attended my first unconference this past November: SocialDevCamp in Baltimore.
My mind was stretched. I left inspired, exhausted and elated. But I also left with an idea.
An idea that burned a whole in my head as I mulled it over for a few weeks and then put fingers to keyboard and blogged about it.
We had to have an unconference for government.
Why? Collaboration.
An unconference is the epitome of collaboration.
Just as the United States of America was created of the people, by the people and for the people, so is this unconference.
We, the people, have the power to make the next two days amazing, productive, world-changing — whatever we envision.
If you’re new to Government 2.0, jump in and participate! You’ll get more out of this experience if you’re open to thinking differently.
If you’ve been blogging, tweeting and preaching Government 2.0 for as long as you can remember, help to show others the possibilities.
You may have noticed that, despite the “2.0″ techie term in its name, this is actually a real, live event.
Sure, we’re using tools like Twitter and we’ll talk about technologies like OpenSource software, but this is a live event because the tools & technologies are not the POINT of Government 2.0.
They’re never the point. They are just enablers.
To foster the transparent, participatory and collaborative government that is President Obama’s vision for our country, we’ve got to practice what we preach.
Over the next two days, I urge you to share what you’re working on, actively participate in discussions and collaborate with old friends and new acquaintances to create brand new solutions.
The best way to understand collaboration is to collaborate.
I want to thank each and every one of you for making this unconference come to fruition.
Without the financial support of our 103 sponsors, the help of so many volunteers and my phenomenal co-organizers, we’d all be back at work in our offices right now!
Together, let’s make this not just the best unconference, but the greatest Government 2.0 event of the year!
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Getting People to do Stuff for Free
Posted on 27. Mar, 2009 by mollymoran.
I’m blogging from the morning workshop on how to get people to do stuff for free, facilitated by Sharon Tewksbury-Bloom, from Volunteer Arlington. The main focus is how to encourage people in your organization or your community to help with a project, as an alternative to using a “whip” or a “carrot” (authority or material enticement).
Volunteers are often motivated by a “motivational paycheck” in lieu of a material paycheck. Some people may be motivated by personal recognition, others by the chance to get out of the house. How can you apply that to your project?
Sharon is explaining a “motivational analysis” framework that she and her colleagues use: achievement (ex. grades in school), affiliation (being included in a group), authority (giving someone a title or a position as group or project leader), power (giving people access to powerful people).
Remember that networking and relationship-building is an activity you do for free, and this act will help you to get others to do things for free. If you do for them, they will do for you.
We’ve just broken into pairs to network — in 3-5 minutes, learn something about the other person to be able to offer them something that can help them achieve their goals - and vice versa.
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Government 2.0 Camp on Federal News Radio
Posted on 26. Mar, 2009 by mixtmedia.
Did you hear my (Maxine Teller) interview with Chris Dorobek about Government 2.0 Camp this afternoon on Federal News Radio?
Here’s the clip:
Around the Government 2.0 Campfire
(MP3 wouldn’t embed, hence, the link.)
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Technically Speaking: What to Expect
Posted on 25. Mar, 2009 by Andrea Baker.
Don't forget your flip camera!
Are you ready? We are just days away from the inaugural Government 2.0 Camp start. In order to enhance participation of those in physical attendance and those who would like to participate virtually we plan to be accommodating.
The venue will have wifi available and power cords for keeping your gadgets charged. However, since there is a large number of attendees expected, if you want to be able to be certain of power access, bring your own power cord and offer to share. I also recommend, to ensure your constantly connected to the internet, that if you have wifi service for your laptop or netbook, please defer to that as your connection. You will probably see faster load times and not be bumped if the network suffers an unanticipated hiccup.
If you regularly live blog, live stream, or podcast events you attend, then we would like you to let us know and DO IT! Please let the session leader know if you would like to do any of these when they ask. We encourage you to bring your flips, digital cameras, and web-cams to capture the knowledge and bring transparency to the two-day event (Both Friday and Saturday - 8am start time).
Our goal is to capture as much information from each of the sessions by wiki, THIS blog, video, pictures, the Government 2.0 Club Google Group. (You’ll receive and invite directly from that group on Thursday), twitter, and more. So if you were unable to attend the event in person, you can feel like you are there with the complete coverage. At the beginning of each session, the speaker will be asked to establish a session specific hashtag. For example, a session entitled “Panel discussion on social media ROI (return on investment)” might track as #smROI and #gov20camp. Being more specific with your tagging and hashtagging will not only help you, but others find information from the event more effectively.
If you are planning to be a speaker or present this weekend, please make sure you have added your proposed topic to the wiki. Additionally, if you have a time and day preference, let that be known as well. So our board creators can work a little easier on creating the session/room assignments.
If you are a blogger and would like to contribute to this blog by live blogging your thoughts, you can do so. We hope to have a live blogger in each session, along with a live stream if possible. As the Online Content Coordinator for this event, if you have information you want to be posted on this site, attributed to you, just @immunity or one of the other Government 2.0 Camp Volunteers by #gov20cv.
If you have any other questions about the tech specs, video output, hashtags, power supply or more, please do not hesitate to ask a volunteer. We will be wearing special name tags during the BarCamp and can assist you with your questions.
So with all that, we thank you for your consideration in participating with the points in the post and look forward to meeting you all this weekend.
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Government 2.0 Camp Travel Guide
Posted on 20. Mar, 2009 by corbett3000.
Government 2.0 Camp (#gov20camp) will be located at the Duke Ellington School of Arts and is NOT metro accessible and parking is scarce (we had to go with this venue regardless as options/time was running out). The following guide will help you get to and from the event more easily:
Camp Location: Duke Ellington School of the Arts . Main entrance: 1698
35th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20007 Google Map of the Address
Look for the big green chair pictured to the right when you get there.
It is HIGHLY recommended that you take a cab/bus or carpool to this event. Please use the following Google Groups to match-up with people you can car pool with: DC, Maryland, and Virginia.
THE FASTEST WAY TO GET THERE IS BY TAKING THE METRO TO DUPONT CIRCLE AND HAILING A CAP TO THE VENUE. CABS WILL COST ~$6 EACH LEG. CLICK HERE FOR THE MAP.
Public Transportation:
Ellington is located on the D1, D2, D3, and D6 bus routes. There is a bus stop in front of the school at the corner of Reservoir Road and 35th Street, NW, and another on Reservoir Road a short distance from the corner. All visitors must walk to the R Street entrance of the school to enter the premises. To check bus schedules, visit www.wmata.com. Ellington is not accessible via metrorail.
Comment Dennis Sutch:
The Circulator bus’s Georgetown/Union Station route seems to have a stop at Wisconsin Ave and R St, about 2 blocks from Ellington. This route passes by several Metro stations, with buses running every 10 minutes. http://www.dccirculator.com/
IF YOU DRIVE YOU WILL HAVE TO FEED THE METER EVERY 2 HOURS SO PLEASE CONSIDER AN ALTERNATE WAY OF GETTING THERE.
From Virginia’s Key Bridge:
Take the Key Bridge north towards Washington.
At the end of the bridge, take a right onto M Street.
Left onto 33rd Street.
Left onto N Street
Right onto 35th Street, following for almost half a mile.
From Maryland:
Travel south on Wisconsin Avenue, passing the National Cathedral on your left.
As you approach Georgetown, bear right onto 35th Street. (If you miss this, continue straight and take a right onto R Street.)
Please note: Parking is limited and residential. During day-time hours, street parking is limited to two hours.
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