Gov 2.0: It’s All About The Platform. Editor’s note: The following guest post is by Tim O’Reilly, the founder and CEO of computer book publisher O’Reilly Media and a conference organizer. O’Reilly coined the term Web 2.0 five years ago. Now he is arguing it is time for Gov 2.0, and has helped organize a summit next week to talk about what that might mean. Today, many people equate Web 2.0 with social media; three or four years ago, they equated it with AJAX applications and APIs.
Many are now starting to think it’s all about cloud computing. In fact, it’s all of these and more. The way I have always defined Web 2.0, it’s been about what it means for the internet, rather than the personal computer, to be the dominant computing platform. What are the rules of business and competitive advantage when the network is the platform? So too with Government 2.0. But as with Web 2.0, the real secret of success in Government 2.0 is thinking about government as a platform.
We have an enormous opportunity right now to make a difference. Sunlight Labs: Blog. (Who is the Sunlight Foundation?) Join Our Mailing List The House of Representatives is showing off a preview of their new website, over at preview.house.gov . It features a brand new design, a modest expansion of available data, and more educational material for citizens about the House and its functions. Months ago, Josh and Tim bought an Egg-Bot kit from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories .
Despite the obvious utility of this piece of office equipment, it fell into disuse not too long after assembly. But with the year's premiere egg-decorating holiday fast approaching, we decided to dust off the Egg-Bot and see if we couldn't put it to good use during our team's weekly lunch meeting. Things kind of spiraled out of control from there .
New On Influence Explorer: Fundraisers, Bills and More One of the primary goals of our site Influence Explorer is to show users a wide variety of influence data on one page. POGO has some thoughts about it that are certainly worth your time . OpenCongress - Track bills, votes, senators, and representatives. Fifty State Project - Sunlabs wiki.