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Open Government Workshop Brings Promising Ideas

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 [...]


Social Government Tweets OpenGov Working Series

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 [...]


Sorry for the Lack of Gov 2.0 Summit Coverage

Unfortunately, we were unable to gain access to the Gov 2.0 Summit that’s going on in D.C. today and tomorrow.
Please check the Twitter hashtag #g2s for the latest!
If you’d like to contribute a report from the summit to the blog, let me know.
We hope to have in-depth coverage of future events.


Join us at NASA’s Sept. 24 D.C. Tweetup!

NASA, an agency that understands Government 2.0 quite well, is hosting a tweetup at their Washington headquarters Sept. 24.
But it’s not just any tweetup: it’s an opportunity to meet the astronauts of STS-127, a shuttle mission this summer on Space Shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station.
Commander Mark Polansky is big on Twitter as @Astro_127. [...]


Live from eDemocracyCamp2

Nick Troiano is at eDemocracyCamp2 today and will be live blogging some sessions!
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