Social Government

I just wanted to write a quick note to let everyone know that we’re celebrating our first birthday.
While I have no special celebrations, toasts, cakes or melodramatic speeches planned, I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who has supported this site.
Special thanks goes out to our current contributors, Chris Golden and Nick Troiano [...]

When the President addresses Congress tonight on the State of the Union, the American people have one more way they can tune in to listen live. Last week, the White House announced the launch of an application with streaming video for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch. The application also features updates from the White House [...]

The future of the Internet is in the cloud, and it has implications for every sector of our society, especially government and business.
On Wednesday, Jan. 20, the Brookings Institution hosted a discussion on cloud computing including a keynote address from Brad Smith, senior vice president and general counsel of Microsoft Corp. Smith unveiled a policy [...]

Transparency. Public Participation. Collaboration.
They sound great in principle. As models, they are ideals that are worthy and noble to subscribe to. But goals are different than action steps. What we “want” is different from what we “have.” Now consider that the path to getting “there” is not laid out (or funded) and the scene [...]

Tomorrow (Jan. 11), the Open Government Directive Working Series, an inter-agency collaborative event at the Department of Transportation, will take place in Washington. The purpose of the series is to lead to a successful implementation of the Open Government Directive, and to develop momentum behind it. At the end of the working series, existing and [...]

The U.S. Census Bureau kicked off a nationwide campaign this week to raise awareness about our Constitutionally-mandated, decennial headcount. Much is at stake over the next few months through the census process: from determining proportional representation in Congress to guiding federal funding (some $3 trillion over a 10-year period). And the success of the census, [...]

Without a doubt, lots of (read: unprecedented) progress was made in the government 2.0 world in 2009. We saw the first federal CIO and CTOs appointed, the launch of Apps.gov and even the White House embracing the open source Drupal content management system for their Web site.
At this pace, 2010 will be an even better [...]