Government
2.0 Club is national (US) organization that brings together leading
thinkers from government, academia and industry. Members of Club share solutions for leveraging social media tools to create more collaborate, efficient and effective government: Government 2.0.
GovLoop is the Facebook for Government, the premier social network, created on Ning,
connecting over 25,000 government innovators from federal, state and
local governments.
Companies of the Future will collaboratively design their products with customers using the modern web tools. These products will meet the specific
needs of people, be cheaper, and streamline the go-to-market process.
UK Government has published (February 24, 2009) an updated policy on Open Source.
Open Source has been one of the most significant cultural developments
in IT and beyond over the last two decades: it has shown that
individuals, working together over the Internet, can create products
that rival and sometimes beat those of giant corporations; it has shown
how giant corporations themselves, and Governments, can become more
innovative, more agile and more cost effective by building on the
fruits of community work; and from its IT base the Open Source movement
has given leadership to new thinking about intellectual property rights
and the availability of information for reuse by others.
