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The “Summer of Gov” is here
Posted on 13. Jul, 2009 by corbett3000.
The “Summer of Gov” is an open bar happy hour whose purpose is to celebrate two milestones in the history of Government 2.0. The DC event RSVP is here, and the SF event RSVP is here.
Milestone One:
Apps for Democracy “Community Edition” wrapped up on July 1st, 2009 and we need to celebrate the talented citizen technologists who’ve been building a better DC byte by byte.
Milestone Two:
GovLoop is celebrating its 1 year anniversary and we need to honor the 14,000+ brilliant GovLoop innovators who are connecting, sharing ideas, and leading change across all levels of government in the U.S. and across the globe.
When:
DC: Thursday, July 16th, 2009, from 6:00pm-9pm
SF: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM (PT)
Where:
DC: @ Local 16 - on U Street between 16th and 17th St. NW. Parking is available at The Reeves Center (MAP) two blocks away for $7. The U Street Metro stop is 4 blocks away (MAP).
SF: 111 Minna Gallery, 111 Minna Street, San Francisco, CA 94105
DC Hosts:
Gold Sponsors:
Silver Sponsors:
Friends of the Bar Tab:
Bob Gourley, Adam Boalt, Michael Rupert, Chris Dorobek, Ellyn Ambrose, Bobby Browning, FierceGovernmentIt, Noel Dickover, Denise Kennedy, Kelly Olson, James Hanson, Jaime Gracia, Jennifer Kirkhoff,
Community Supporters:
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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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Don’t share your best practices! Share the ones that are ‘Good Enough’.
Posted on 09. Apr, 2009 by ken@clickforhelp.com.
Lovisa Williams of the Department of State summed up the problem of building on cross agency’s efforts as “Don’t share your best practices, share them when they are good enough.” It sounded like a good start to a blog post.
I put the full post for this here. For more on workplace collaboration check out the workshop I am organizing on April 23rd.
Summary:
If collaborative efforts begin with sharing final outcomes which the authors don’t want to change because they have invested in these as being final, then essentially the collaborative process doesn’t begin. It’s more of a building on lessons learned than a collaboration .
It’s kind of like growing your vegetables in your own walled garden and only sharing the seeds after you have harvested the first successful crop. In order to build an agile and responsive government, we need to all plant seeds at the same time and figure out together how to get them to grow in the first season.
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Government 2.0 Camp Recap and Next Steps
Posted on 30. Mar, 2009 by corbett3000.
Thank you everyone for participating and co-creating Government 2.0 Camp this past weekend. So much transpired that I would be impossible for me to recap it all in one blog post…but…let’s give it a shot anyway!
Friday (Day 1) Recap:
0) I created the Government 2.0 Club Google Group for you all to join and that’s where some conversation is happening at the moment and will be the first place for other events like this. Please join that and keep in touch on GovLoop, Facebook and Linkedin too.
1) I can’t recap all ~55 sessions, but they can all be found here. If you attended any of these sessions, PLEASE COMMENT on the posts to leave your own notes and links. Session leaders, please post links to your presentations there and also edit the wiki as well.
2) Barry Page took some great pictures and posted them here. Andrea Baker created a #gov20camp Flickr Group as well so if you took pics and uploaded them to Flickr please drop them there too.
3) Diane Cline created those super awesome session visualizations you saw up on the walls. Hire her for your next conference! She added so much to ours 
4) We hosted the US premier of Us Now, a film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet.
5) We went to the bar.
Saturday (Day 2)
1) I can’t recap all ~55 sessions, but they can all be found here. If you attended any of these sessions, PLEASE COMMENT on the posts to leave your own notes and links. Session leaders, please post links to your presentations there and also edit the wiki as well.
2) Barry Page took more great pictures and posted them here.
3) Bev Godwin and Macon Phillips of the White House new media team hosted a session asking for input into their efforts. We created #askWH for people to track and continue the conversation on twitter.
4) We discussed what/how Government 2.0 Club would work moving forward. A special thank you to Chris Heuer, founder of Social Media Club, for flying in from California to provide us with insight into how best to organize a community such as this. We received terrific input and for now the plan is very simple: we’re going to focus on bringing the DC community of government 2.0 practitioners together on a consistent basis without a formal organization. Please join the Google group so you can connect and contribute. We’ll support other chapters however we can.
Blog post round-up:
Government workers debate online citizen engagement
Government 2.0 Camp Meet World Cafe
Playing Along with Gov 2.0 Camp
Gov2.0 Camp is over, but something else is starting
Government 2.0 Camp in Australia
Creating a Citizen Driven Idea Sourcing Platform - from Government 2.0 Camp
More transparency, fewer lobbyists?
Miscellaneous:
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Creating a Citizen Driven Idea Sourcing Platform & Needs Matching System
Posted on 29. Mar, 2009 by corbett3000.
The following presentation will provide you with a detailed recap of Peter Corbett’s session during Government 2.0 Camp on “Creating a Citizen Driven Idea Sourcing Platform & Needs Matching System”.
Creating a Citizen Driven Idea Sourcing Platform & Needs Matching System from Gov 2.0 on Vimeo.
DOWNLOAD THE PRESENTATION or flip through here:
Citizen Driven Idea Sourcing and Solutions Matching
Drawing by Diane Cline
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[Room 205] Strategies for Deep Citizen Participation
Posted on 29. Mar, 2009 by macurak.
Jeff Christensen, Rhiza Labs
Deep Citizen Participation goes beyond 142-character messages – deep civic engagement is when citizens, armed with data, can translate data into action and use it in interacting with elected officials
Three easy steps:
FIRST: Distribute something. Do this first or there’s nothing to talk about.
SECOND: Then, create tools that allow the community to MAKE something. Can be meetings, maps, whitepapers, whatever.
THIRD: Then make it so those tools can allow them to DO something, to get what they’ve created into their lives and into action.
Solutions before problems
We say we want all public data accessible to us immediately – once we have it, what do we do with it? Understanding this requires understanding your audience – not just who consumes data, but who makes it.
Define your problem, then use the audience to determine its solution. (A website with mapping tools? Web service API? Depends on community – there is a laundry list of technologies, determine the audience to figure out which.)
One scientist creates coveted dataset – now what happens with it? Are people going to use it?
To address this, implement built-in feedback loops directly within the tool. Link an artifact to every single time that data has been used by someone else – allow users to comment, leave ratings – build in the conversation between different parts of audience
Rhiza’s examples: Insight.3rc.org; insight.rhizalabs.com; humanservices.net; Southwestern PA After School
If we’re talking about Deep Engagement, we want to inform a group of people to give them a specific action to take – if you give everyone all the information after they digest it they have no time to take a position
So, design tools that enable people to make sense of that data – figure out how users can actually use the data and how it can influence others to take action – can create a cascading effect
Data.octo.dc.gov (DC OCTO)
Apps for Democracy
Can issue-oriented groups mash up the tools and data to communicate across constituencies, make the data available and people who are interested will make things happen?
Gov’t also has a responsibility to provide info in plain language ways that is direct and unbiased to get people who aren’t going to be affected by NGOs or where there is no NGO ecosystem around the topic or where NGO ecosystem is too polarized to be able to use it.
Other problems:
Most people interact with local government over federal government.
Twitter is not deep engagement.
In rural areas no one is building mashups.
If you’re interested in deeper engagement, making data available so people can play with it is great but not enough – and how long will it take until all of gov’t data is available ? – but you have to start making inroads.
Deep engagement is more than just having information available. Gov’t produces so much information and groups are overwhelmed by their content and have no knowledge of correlating activity or how it relates to them
Local governments vs. federal government
Federal has variety of information – business not accessible to average citizen – than you would see on the local level.
All these social networking tools out there, and people can comment on all different things, supposed to be used to engage the public to action – but when simple public meetings aren’t online for them to access, what are they going to use it for?
Current social tools we have access to are just about as effective for this as Web 1.0 “Click to email your congressman your comment” forms – i.e., not effective.
How do you take what’s online and interact in the community with people, with agencies, with whoever your audience is?
Depends on where you’re at in the process – if you’re at gov’t level impact is how open is your data, at advocacy group level how many people are you mobilizing, how are you impacting your legislators?
Citizen-initiated data-driven action
One city neighborhood used public data to prevent a park being clseod for re-routing the tracks – citizen engagement through info gathering and dissemination also engaged legislators, railroad officials.
Bird counts and bucket brigades – citizen-contributed data to large-scale research products
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[Room 120] Survey: Expectations of the Government
Posted on 28. Mar, 2009 by lkthrock.
[120] Survey: Expectations of the Government - USA.gov - Jed@capturagroup.com
Survey Oct. 22 - Jan 5, 2009 on preferences and expectation of social media with regards to accessing government online.
385 completed survey 78.8% completion rate
People are interested in interacting with govet through social media.
Credibility of gov information is critical for respondents.
Facebook is the preferred social media tool among respondents.
People interested in having conversations with the government.
People use search engines to find information more than any other tool.
Top ways citizens want to interact:
Emergency alerts
Voting and election information
Way to contact elected officials
Government forms
My rights as a citizen
60% interested in government information on non-government sites (e.g. wikipedia).
People expressed interest in rating government publications and information.
Presentation will be posted to Slide Share.
Tweet stream: http://tinyurl.com/cp34q8
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Ten Recommendations for Successful Government Transparency
Posted on 28. Mar, 2009 by corbett3000.
Ten Measures for Transparency Success from Gov 2.0 on Vimeo.
The following video was created at http://government20club.org ’s un-conference “Government 2.0 Camp” and talks about ten factors for effective transparent governance.
Explanation by Andrew Rasiej of
http://www.personaldemocracy.com/
http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/
http://www.personaldemocracy.com/
Live mural graphic by Diane Cline of
Video recorded by Peter Corbett and published with NO RIGHTS RESERVED.
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[Room 120] Brainstorm - Bridging the Web 2.0 Generation Gap
Posted on 28. Mar, 2009 by lkthrock.
Andrew’s blog (@krazykriz) http://generationshift.blogspot.com - he’ll post his presentations there and they are also below.
@dlblack - Is there a generation Gap with Web 2.0 tools adoption? If so, what do we do about it?
Unique sceanrio in the govt: The Greatest Generation, Baby Boomers, Xers, Millenials (Gen Y)
@JesseX - Four architypes:
Prophet/Idealist - Dominant
- define inner world of values and culture
- baby Boomer (1943 - 1960)
- Hippies
Nomad/Reactive - Reccesive
- pragmatic check on idealist excesses
- Thirteenth/Gen X (1961 - 1981)
- Juvenile Delinquents
Hero/Civic - Dominant
- rebuild the outer world of technology and institution
- GI, (1901 - 1924)
- Millenial (1982 - 200?)
- Boy Scouts
Artist/Adaptive - recessive
- ameliorate Civic excess and omissions
- Silent (1925 - 1942)
- Homeland (?)
Gov20Camp - Generations and Social Media
Generation C - consumer generating content - some one of any age that is actively using social media.
Stat: There are more boomers on the internet than milenials.
Important to understand online pursuits by generation.
USA Today article Boomers zero in on Social Media.
Boomers aren’t really going to retire - will take second careers to help others.
Gen Xers are right in the middle - those who feel like they didn’t have a voice.
Social media can help bridge the gap to government jobs (millenials)
Social media is not just for kids
Great need for training
Must be sensitive to people of all ages
Boomers need to create the culture now
Recruitment o f new
E-mail: transactional allows for control. Web 2.0 is much more horizontal.
Gen Xers (nomad architype) - hit childhood when children were a hassle. Millenials hit young adulthood in an opposite environment. Boomers are oriented towards turf.
This country needs practical Gen X leaders to serve as leadership.
Assume the monetary system that we know will not exist in short order.
2005 Census
Boomers - 64 million
Generation - 81 million
Millennial - 79 million
Social media bridges the gap because we don’t see ages.
Make it about the millennials, because Gen Xers will need to siphon between the two.
Craft your need in support of the rising generation.
Here’s a link to the Twitter stream from this session: http://tinyurl.com/c3ec23
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