Howard Rheingold
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Government 2.0 | Social Media CoLab - Flock
Amanda Zhang; Jenna Gunderson; Sean Westwood; Tina Lee Project outline: Introduction: what is Gov 2.0? What does "Open Government" mean? Government as a Platform " Gov 2.0: It's All About the Platform " (Tim O'Reilly, TechCrunch, September 4, 2009) Data and engagement are bi-directional: government to citizen, citizen to government ( Andrea DiMaio, Gartner Blog, November 11, 2009 ) The Four Facets of Web 2.0 in Government (Andrea DiMaio, Gartner Blog, May 29, 2009) Internal (intra or inter-government) collaboration.Infotention Part Two: Building Information Dashboards - HowardRh
About this original series I stumbled into cyberspace a long time ago and have been a participant observer ever since . I write books and blogs and teach and speak .
Howard hit on one major takeaway that I had from our week in the UK. “Increasingly I think the digital divide is less about access to technology and more about the difference between those who know how and those who don’t know how,” he said. He’s convinced that what’s most important is not access to the Internet — we have more than a billion people on the Internet now and there are 4 billion phones out there — but access to knowledge and literacies for the digital age. “The ability to know has suddenly become the ability to search and the ability to sift” and discern.
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