How To Build a Web 2.0 Government?

UltraAyla writes "With the announcement that President-Elect Obama will record his weekly address as a YouTube video to be posted at Change.gov, questions arise as to how an Internet-fueled candidacy based in part on a platform of government openness can begin to use technology to make government transparent. Aside from popular Slashdot policies, such as Net Neutrality, how do you think government (either in the United States or elsewhere) can best utilize technology to engage the public and make government more transparent and accessible?" Reader Rick Zeman points out a related New York Times story about how Obama will have to give up some of his communications gadgets because of the Presidential Records Act. Despite that, he apparently hopes to be the first US president to have a laptop on his desk in the Oval Office.

Comments

We've already got one!

[ColdWetDog]

Web 2 government?

Hot air, buzz words, no substance ...

I fail to see any substantive difference from what is going on now. Besides, since it looks like convicted felon Ted Stevens might actually lose the election (good work Alaskans - now we're one for 4), the tubes are right out.

Re:We've already got one!

[biryokumaru]

Psh, if you want to quibble over semantics, why not just say: If Obama puts his laptop on his desk, does it become a desktop, or is it still a laptop?

(Or is that just what Web 2.0 is? Everyone uses crappy laptops instead of desktops now?)

That is soooooo... 2006

[plopez]

What we need is a cloud computing government on a morph best-of-breed solutions platform to exploit efficient initiatives to envisioneer synergistic opportunistic public-private partnership solutions to national and global issues.

Let's for a joint public-private-faith based coalition to design a mutual framework and pray that it works.

Re:That is soooooo... 2006

[Zero__Kelvin]

What, no Beowulf Cluster?

It's pretty obvious...

[Anonymous Coward]

Digg will replace Congress (ie people will Digg up the laws they like, bury the ones they don't)
Flickr will replace National Parks (who needs to go outdoors when you can see it... from your computer!)
Google will replace the CDC and provide health care (just Google your symptoms)
Twitter will replace the USPS (do you really need private letters?)

Government 2.0?!

[wmbetts]

Hopefully Government 2.0 will be designed better than Twitter, but still have all the nice rounded edges and glass buttons!

Re:Tools for gov.

[Tubal-Cain]

But that makes too much sense!

Obama's Laptop - New Age of Slacking Off At Work

[robi2106]

Mr Obama will also be the first President to have a "SWF" button on his desktop so when he is killing time on games like Paper Physics or Line rider, he can immediately switch over to some spreadsheet looking thing when the Chief of Staff comes in to make sure he is still working.

Ahhh slacking off with style.

Re:Direct democracy

[jcnnghm]

Go here and read the comments. This is why it would be unwise to allow everyone to vote on the issues.

Re:The medium is NOT the message

[TeXMaster]

Good metaphor with the kernel.

You must be new here. Good metaphors only have cars in them.