We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting both sponsorships and ticket sales for Gov 2.0 L.A 2012, April 21, 2012. The complete list of confirmed speakers will be announced within a few weeks.

There are some excellent examples of where Gov 2.0 has crossed into electoral politics.

Our project has just begun, and already positive results are showing themselves with promised funding now being placed into Mozambique's education system.

What I have learned mostly though, is that the breakneck pace of change that has been rattling the government and e-government spaces since 2008 is having real results globally. I will leave it to others to pick apart my statements or point to specific case studies. But reality is social, mobile, cloud are here and have forever changed how governments interact with themselves and with us.

Time matters. People's time matters the more that you are demanding they contemplate either large expenditures or something technical in nature or both.

Think about the big picture. Do not just rely on one of these services, but you should be actively checking on the health of your reputation. There are ways to make changes, but it requires one to pay attention first. You need to. Others are already.

See all the successful implementations of open data, of social connectivity for Government and Citizens alike and see the results. It is not hard to find an example of government agencies adopting various parts of this big picture.

In a case of the newest social media combining with the oldest social media – we are witnessing civil disturbances of the largest recorded size in decades, yet not only is the western media largely bypassing the story, but bucking the global trend, it is not high technology platforms driving this particular series of citizen actions, but age old word of mouth.

At what point does this push to monitor the conversation and use technology to enable pre-crime arrests cross over into civil rights violations?