Sep 08
2009
Gov 2.0 innovators
O’Reilly’s Gov 2.0 Expo and Summit is on this week in Washington, DC. There are numerous of well known speakers with discussions mostly focussed at the federal government level and using modern technology to fuel innovation. The Obama administration with CTO, Vivek Kundra, has taken a strong stance to better connect government to its citizens using technology. For example, they created data.gov to catalog all of the federal government’s web services to engage in more development and innovation.
While all of this is being discussed and slowly adopted at the federal level, there have been faster grass roots changes at the local government levels using modern technology to better connect with citizens. Perhaps being smaller makes local government earlier adopters and quicker decision makers or perhaps they are more connected with citizens in their communities and more connected with how to implement improvements to citizen services with basic community development functions - building permits, licenses, neighbour complaints, development zoning, citizen access portals, to name a few. City halls, county halls and town halls see citizens and contractors daily with new requests, changes to existing requests, status inquiries and regardless of the specifics, they are under pressure to respond quickly.
See some examples of local governments that are innovators and adopters of web-based, e-gov solutions.
Post a comment and share your examples at the local, state or federal government levels ….
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