Wow. Things are happening in a much more rapid time frame now than they used to. I am not just talking about Moore's Law for technophiles. But life as we know it is increasingly becoming, rapid. In every way.

For one example - I have hosted Gov20LA for...

Gov 2.0 L.A. 2013 is almost here. As the founder of @Gov20la "Gov20LA" as it is referred to, I could not be more excited and proud. As the event gets ready to head into our fourth annual one; we are getting ready...

NASA is famous for lots of things. Monkeys. Mercury. Gemini. Apollo. Space Station(s). Space Shuttles.

Did you know that NASA in conjunction with the USGS, through the LANDSAT program; is, and has been for 40 continuous years,...

2012 saw many people get foiled by their own attempts at keeping secrets online.

General Petraeus is only the most vivid and open example. But this is happening to regular people every day. Expect this trend to continue into 2013.

On one hand all these new social tools...

The holidays bring with them lots of stories, both true and allegorical. It is that time of year again. But alas, this is not a holiday cheer or holidays blahs post. No. This is about when the mythical St. George and the Dragon and biblical David and Goliath stories come...

What follows below is a guest post by a 17-year-old high school student who has been actively canvassing and doing precinct walking in his neighborhood. More young people should be taking up this example. I thought his story should be shared.

Guest Post by Jacob Revers--

Its not only because...

In the last 5 years or so "Gov 2.0" (Government 2.0) has grown from being a name coined by William Eggers to now becoming the umbrella term for serious change in government, and not just here in the United States, but around the world.

Many people, including myself...

Co-authored by Julianne Shinto.

The constant and increasing use of Nazi and Holocaust imagery and associations that have been occurring in what is passing for political discourse in the USA has to stop.

It does nothing to improve the dialogue between the parties and certainly does everything...

Market maturation comes with ups and downs in any industry. With Government 2.0 we have now reached a point in my opinion, based on being directly involved with part of the transformation; that we are quietly seeing a mashup of Gov 2.0 with cyberwar and digital warfare.

We are in...

Are you listening, really listening, to the conversations going on about you and your products? As a CEO and an adviser to governments and politicians, I do a lot of listening. I even wrote a blog post about my listening into my industry, Government 2.0.

In the 1990's...

I have been following closely the debate surrounding the FDA's call to regulate apps like you use on your smartphone as a device, like a heart monitor or diabetes test kit.

Is this the right thing to do? I am all for regulation of industries to ensure safety and make...

Counting down the days now, literally and getting excited to see it unfold. As the founder, I am both humbled and quite proud at the same time. Gov 2.0 and Open Government are blossoming...

Is that an apple?

I was in a meeting recently, and one of the principals in the meeting was making some points about lack of education here in U.S. He made a point of discussing how in a school in West Virginia, a famous TV personality did a test. He...

As the 3rd annual Gov 2.0 L.A. (Gov20LA) approaches on April 21, 2012, I have been thinking a lot about why I started this conference and what it means for you, for me and for our futures. A few years back I wrote this piece "What is Gov20LA...

www.gov20la.com

The speaker list for Gov 2.0 L.A. 2012 is out:

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Election 2012 was either supposed to be about someone beating Obama or Obama beating someone. That part of the story is still being told. However the sub-story of Election 2012 is not which GOP candidate got a "surge." Surge. That word -- each time I heard the word "surge" I...

The third Gov20LA is coming up soon. In fact in April of 2012 at the same location as this year.

As we have in the last two years, the event will be fully live-streamed and interactive with Twitter, Facebook and chat.

We are past the point where...

Change is here. It is happening everywhere. I have been fortunate in the last few months to speak and also do a tremendous amount of listening and asking pertinent questions of minister level officials in 5 national capitals, on 4 continents. The pace of change in government use and implementation...

Remember those old AOL commercials on TV, the "You've got mail" campaign? It was wildly successful as a marketing slogan, as a commercial, and even as the title of a movie.

Times change. Social media is no longer just a buzzword, but really a part of daily...

My business partner and I were in meetings this week with a government agency dealing with the sudden onslaught of "Gov 2.0." Deja Vu. It came full blast this week from the year 2008. We might as well have been in an episode of the TV show Fear Factor as...