Archive for the ‘Private Diplomacy’ Category

#Gov20 enters #Cyberwar age or How does Government 2.0 play a role in cyberwar?

Thursday, August 23rd, 2012
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 trRead More....

It Was Amazing.

Monday, April 30th, 2012
[caption id="attachment_1090" align="aligncenter" width="367" caption="Gov 2.0 L.A. Hybrid Un-conference"][/caption] It Was Amazing. Thank you to all who made Gov 2.0 L.A. 2012 a success for the 3rd year in a row. We had over 44,Read More....

Great early success with Educate Mozambique

Monday, December 19th, 2011
Our project has just begun, and already positive results are showing themselves with promised funding now being placed into Mozambique's education system. We look forward to lots of pictures soon of new schools being built to replace pictures like this below. Read More....

Gov 2.0 LA 2012 is going to be April 21

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
The third Gov20LA is coming up soon. In fact in On April 21 of 2012 at the same location as this year. As we have in the last Read More....

Listening to the Global pulse of Gov 2.0

Thursday, December 1st, 2011
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 implemenRead More....

My upcoming talk at PS Engage in Ottawa, Canada

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
How you tell the story of something whether your best friend's recent golf incident - or the introduction of a new paradigm into an old channel matters. It matters more and more so in the the instant gratification and short time frame attention span economy. How our brains process informatioRead More....

Yin/Yang – Opportunity and Fear in #Gov20

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
My business partner and I were in meetings this week with a government agency dealing with 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 at some points fear was the maRead More....

From Russia with Gov 2.0

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
I am proud to present the following from my friend Alyona, who is a Gov 2.0 trailblazer in Russia. I was in Moscow this past April and saw first hand the exciting growth happening in the e-government space there. From Alyona Popova in Russia: Russian e-Government and Gov2.0 development There is a persistence prejudice in the world that e-government development here in Russia has stalled. That Russia has noRead More....

Educate Mozambique

Thursday, June 9th, 2011
Mozambique is rebuilding its education system starting from the ground up, quite literally. The country just initiated the launch of Educate Mozambique which is a broad and global online, social, mobile and offline campaign to both educate and crowd-sourRead More....