Comments on: Government 2.0 – reinventing eGovernment or something different?

By: Barry Anderson

Barry Anderson — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:25:56 +0000

You are absolutely correct – what the government and particularly Lindsay Tanner is trying to do is support consultation being transformed into collaboration based on the highly successful community dialogue that has been the community cabinet meetings. What needs to happen over time as technology rollout occurs is for all of us to get used to the distinction between current perceptions of ICT activities versus the collaborative potential of ICT enabled activities of which Gov2.0 is such an initiative. Given that half the APS and most ICT suppliers don’t seem to get the difference or subtelty of “enabled” yet we shouldn’t be too hard on Joe n Josephine Public.

By: Paul Roberts

Paul Roberts — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 09:14:47 +0000

Stephen, your posting brought the various Government 2.0 threads together very nicely. I could feel the goodness in your words.

I too have encountered the tendency of many to seek solutions in technology or in protocols whereas the solutions are to be found within themselves and between each other.

The future direction of public service is to embrace facilitation and to solve problems in collaboration. Public policy development and implementation will be so much the better for it.

By: Stephen Collins

Stephen Collins — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:37:19 +0000

Paul, thanks! Your feedback and enthusiasm for my thinking make me believe I’m moving the right way. Much appreciated.

By: Paul Roberts

Paul Roberts — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:31:34 +0000

Inspirational posting Stephen. I’ll circulate this internally at work tomorrow morning.

Systems thinking, agility, responsiveness and evidenced-based policy all resonate with our corporate objectives. But the starting point for all public agencies is to shift the internal culture in this direction. Then Government 2.0 will be authentic.

By: Jeffrey Peel

Jeffrey Peel — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:03:56 +0000

Many of the issues discussed here will be on the agenda of the first Government 2010 event from London on the 22nd of October. Speakers will include local and central government speakers, IT specialists, social media experts, politicians and bloggers. Your readers may like to watch. We’re web streaming from 9.00 to 5.00 on the day and it’s completely free to watch.

Jeffrey Peel

By: Smarter Workforce; Government Leadership Forum « HR Club Sydney

Smarter Workforce; Government Leadership Forum « HR Club Sydney — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:03:29 +0000

[...] to get off the soap box now and tell you about the forum. Stephen Collins of Acidlabs (@trib) was opening speaker and you can catch his speech [...]

By: ¿Qué es para ti un Gobierno 2.0? | K-Government

¿Qué es para ti un Gobierno 2.0? | K-Government — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:02:45 +0000

[...] En fin que las acepciones para lo que ha de ser un Gobierno 2.0 son múltiples y variadas. Tenemos como habéis visto posicionamientos como el de Tim O’Reilly que lo contempla desde la vertiente de la tecnología en un momento en el que el Open Government por lo que a los datos se refiere está causando una verdadera revolución. O por otro lado tenemos otros puntos de vista menos tecnólogos en los que evidentemente el aspecto social es básico para que todo esto se produzca. Creo que desde siempre me he decantado por esa parte más social que ha de tener el gobierno, entendiéndolo como administración pública. No concibo un Gobierno 2.0 sin que se produzca un cambio de actitud en quien gestiona los servicios, en quien los ejecuta y sobre todo en quien los recibe. La tecnología es importante pero lo es más la voluntad de tod@s para construir la sociedad que queremos. Pero en definitiva, ¿estamos reinventando el eGovernment o creando algo diferente? [...]

By: Definition of Business 2.0 | Strawberryway

Definition of Business 2.0 | Strawberryway — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:45:29 +0000

[...] contained a suggested definition of ”Government 2.0″ and with a few tweaks to the original (worth reading too) we feel the definition goes a long way to defining Business 2.o [...]