One of the goals of Gov 2.0 is to increase citizens' power over their own lives by participating in their own governing.
washingtonpost.com | Posted 11.25.2009 | Technology
The idea that governments could monitor its citizens' every move with technology has been the stuff of fiction for decades, and the technology that al...
Gadi Ben-Yehuda | Posted 11.22.2009 | Media
Bills are crowdsourced already. Lobbyists, lawyers, legislative assistants, and others have their pens out -- and their contributions, unlike Wikipedia editors', go unattributed and unnoticed.
New York TImes | Posted 11.14.2009 | Technology
There is no turning back the clock. We now have more public opinion exerting pressure on politics than ever before. The question is how it may be chan...
Gadi Ben-Yehuda | Posted 11.08.2009 | Media
I've tried to look at three separate agencies and look at ways that the government can either provide data or amalgamate it and present it in ways that citizens would find useful.
Craig Newmark | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
We need a little nucleus of innovation and recognition of the work that my fellow nerds have done, or might do.
Gadi Ben-Yehuda | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media
The achievable goal of G21 policies and practices is to shift information (and thus power) from governments, corporations, and groups, to individuals.
Gadi Ben-Yehuda | Posted 09.24.2009 | Media
The launch of the iPhone App store--more than the launch of the iPhone itself--could be a demarking point between 20th and 21st century governance.
Gadi Ben-Yehuda | Posted 09.20.2009 | Media
When I talk to others who work at the intersection of government and the Web, everyone uses the term "Gov 2.0." I've started using the term "G21," which better defines our mission.
W. David Stephenson | Posted 03.26.2009 | Business
If it becomes the core of an ambitious "smart regulation" switch, recovery.gov could cut corporate costs, improve governmental efficiency, and drastically increase transparency.
W. David Stephenson | Posted 07.23.2008 | Business
This public data movement has two components: liberating government data, so more people can interpret it, and displaying data visually, rather than in mind-numbing charts.
Gadi Ben-Yehuda | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media