Government 2.0 Summit in DC Sept 9-10

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Tim O'Reilly <tim () oreilly com>
> Date: August 13, 2009 8:36:39 PDT
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Cc: Patrick Dirden <pdirden () oreilly com>
> Subject: Government 2.0 Summit in DC Sept 9-10

> Dave -
>
> I've organized a conference on "Government 2.0" to be held in DC on  
> September 9-10.  See http://gov2summit.com for details.  (I've also  
> added some additional information below.)
>
> As I've done with past O'Reilly conferences, I'd like to offer five  
> free passes to the first IP readers to respond by email to Patrick  
> Dirden, our registration coordinator: pdirden at oreilly.com
>
> The event features on-stage conversations with leaders from  
> government and industry about how government can use technology more  
> effectively to catalyze both innovation and citizen participation.   
> The overall theme is "government as a platform," which I've written  
> about below. Here are some of the people featured at the event:
>
> * Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra and Federal CIO Vivek Kundra on their  
> visions of technology in government
>
> * Open gov pioneers Carl Malamud of public.resource.org and Tom  
> Steinberg of mysociety.org, plus Ellen Miller and Clay Johnson from  
> the Sunlight Foundation
>
> * What can government learn from successful technology platforms:  a  
> panel with Vint Cerf, Jack Dorsey of Twitter, moderated by John  
> Markoff
>
> * Microsoft's Craig Mundie asking will be the "killer app" of  
> government as a platform
>
> * Jack Dangermond of ESRI and a bunch of geohackers who have at  
> least one good answer to Mundie's question
>
> * Hal Varian, Google's chief economist, on real time economics
>
> * A conversation between Amazon CTO Werner Vogels and GSA CIO Casey  
> Coleman about the government's cloud computing strategy
>
> * Jo Anderson, special advisor to the Secretary of Education, on  
> data driven measurement of education practices
>
> * Kojo Nnamdi one-on-one with White House director of new media  
> Macon Phillips
>
> * John Podesta - an old hand looks at the new landscape and reflects
>
> * innovation in the military with Army CIO General Jeffrey Sorenson
>
> * Broadband policy with the FCC (speakers not yet announced)
>
> * British Foreign Secretary John Miliband on gov 2.0 in the UK
>
> and lots more.  See http://gov2summit.com for details.  There's also  
> a related event on September 8, the Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase http://gov2expo.com 
> .
>
> The events explore how government can use technology to catalyze  
> innovation, and to build frameworks for participation by citizens  
> and the marketplace.  As I wrote in my column in Forbes earlier this  
> week:
>
> http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/10/government-internet-software-technology-breakthroughs-oreilly.html
>
> ...
> ["Gov 2.0"] is a radical departure from the old model of government,  
> which Donald Kettl so aptly named "vending machine government." We  
> pay our taxes, we expect services. And when we don't get what we  
> expect, our "participation" is limited to protest--essentially,  
> shaking the vending machine.
>
> In the vending-machine model, the full menu of available services is  
> determined beforehand. A small number of vendors have the ability to  
> get their products into the machine, and as a result, the choices  
> are limited, and the prices are high.
>
> Yet there is an alternate model, which is much closer to the kind of  
> government envisioned by our nation's founders, a model in which, as  
> Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter to Joseph Cabel, "every man … fee 
> ls that he is a participator in the government of affairs, not merel 
> y at an election one day in the year, but every day." In this model, 
>  government is a convener and an enabler--ultimately, it is a vehicl 
> e for coordinating the collective action of citizens.
>
> So far, you may hear echoes of the dialog between liberals and  
> conservatives that has so dominated political discourse in recent  
> decades. But big government versus small government is in many ways  
> beside the point. To frame the debate in terms familiar to  
> technologists, the question is whether government is successful as a  
> platform.
>
> If you look at the history of the computer industry, the most  
> successful companies are those that build frameworks that enable a  
> whole ecosystem of participation from other companies large and  
> small. The personal computer was such a platform. So was the World  
> Wide Web. But this platform dynamic can be seen most vividly in the  
> recent success of the Apple ( AAPL - news - people ) iPhone. Where  
> other phones have a limited menu of applications developed by  
> themselves and a few carefully chosen partners, Apple built a  
> framework that allowed virtually anyone to build applications for  
> the phone, leading to an explosion of creativity, with more than  
> 50,000 applications appearing for the phone in less than a year, and  
> more than 3,000 new ones now appearing every week.
>
> This is the right way to frame the question of "Government 2.0." How  
> does government itself become an open platform that allows people  
> inside and outside government to innovate? How do you design a  
> system in which all of the outcomes aren't specified beforehand, but  
> instead evolve through interactions between the technology provider  
> and its user community?
>
> ...
>
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