GovLoop - Social Network for Government 2.0. PublicSphere2 - Kate Lundy. Open source community for liberating gov data. Tim O’Reilly on Government 2.0. Posted by Ethan on Jul 3rd, 2009 in aif09, Geekery | 1 comment Pioneering technology publisher Tim O’Reilly tells us that “government as a platform” is the definition of government 2.0.
To explain to a non-technical audience what this means, he explains that his company specializes in finding innovations at the edge and amplifying them, through events, publishing and market research. This involves watching alpha geeks like Rob Flickenger.