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Becoming Citizen 2.0: Step 4, Coordinator

Gadi Ben-Yehuda | Posted 05.25.2011

Gadi Ben-Yehuda

Coordinators are government employees, individual entrepreneurs, nonprofit organizations, and traditional, private-sector companies that are bringing their own experience to government.

Becoming Citizen 2.0, Step Three: Co-Deliverer

Gadi Ben-Yehuda | Posted 05.25.2011

Gadi Ben-Yehuda

McDonald's keeps costs low because its patrons perform essential functions for the store. They pour their own drinks, bus their own tables and get their own table settings. This is the same dynamic at work in Gov 2.0.

Becoming Citizen 2.0: Step Two -- Creator

Gadi Ben-Yehuda | Posted 05.25.2011

Gadi Ben-Yehuda

People are looking for an easier way to notify their government of problems and to save time while performing civic obligations such as renewing a license or paying a parking ticket.

Becoming Citizen 2.0: Step One, Consumer

Gadi Ben-Yehuda | Posted 05.25.2011

Gadi Ben-Yehuda

What does it mean to be a consumer and why should anyone bother? These are the questions that Gov 2.0 advocates should ask when exhorting compatriots to take a more active role in their own governance.

Gov 2.0 is Getting Cool!

Alan W. Silberberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Alan W. Silberberg

Gov 2.0 tools, applications and thinking allows for us to collectively take some ownership back. But what kind of ownership and control should we be seeking? Do we even know really?

So, What is Gov 2.0?

Alan W. Silberberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Alan W. Silberberg

People across the country are working to bring massive societal change to how we interact with our government.