Public services 2.0: please help building a contribution to the EU strategy

June 15, 2009

At the EUPS20 workshop, we concluded that we want to engage in the definition of the next EU ICT strategy, following i2010. We feel that government strategies are still detached from how innovation happens today in the web. At the same time we are not happy with just showing off cool web2.0 initiative and complaining about the government approach to IT innovation: it’s time to give constructive inputs to government strategies.
In particular, the EU governments will meet in Malmo in November 2009 and they will agree on a common ministerial declaration, as they do every two years, which will define the policy priorities in Europe for the next three years. It’s necessary and urgent to engage in this process and give constructive input into this process by leveraging collective intelligence.
Therefore, we launched a platform to build collaboratively an Open Declaration on Public Services 2.0
Let’s bring collective intelligence to work. Please contribute with your ideas and recommendations!

We are hopeful that if we come out with good quality of input and quantity of participants, the declaration will be officially presented at the Malmo conference.

I would be grateful if you could disseminate this initiative through your blogs. We need a step-change in e-government policies and it’s our responsibility to make it happen.


List of differences between government and web2 initiatives

May 19, 2009

I am drafting the report of the eups20 workshop. I would like to ask for your help.
First, I started drafting a list of differences which try to outline the gap between government and web2 initiatives. It’s just an initial list (I could post it only as a jpeg, sorry, original is here)

differences

What do you think?

Also, for drafting the report, it would be great if you could add interesting quotes from the workhop in this file . Maybe you can get an inspiration from the videos here.

Many thanks!