Sunday, November 1, 2009

Government 2.0

I ran across this neologism for the first time while reading an interview by O'Reilly. The man came-up with web 2.0. I figured gov 2.0 had to be another revolution I did not want to miss. According to wikipedia, Government 2.0 is an attempt to provide more effective processes for government service delivery to individuals and businesses. Integration of tools such as wikis, development of government-specific social networking sites and the use of blogs, RSS feeds and Google Maps are all helping governments provide information to people in a manner that is more immediately useful to the people concerned. More on this topic as I continue investigating what it actually means for us.