In February of 2010 we unleashed the First Gov 2.0 Los Angeles “un-conference” or un-camp. Cory Ondrejka rocked the keynote speech with a trip back in time on naval ships. It was truly a fantastic event for everyone live in the room in Los Angeles, and everyone around the World participating on the live stream on the internet.
A lot has changed since then. Government 2.0 and even “Gov 3.0” applications are popping up all over the world. The case studies are now real. The marketplace is starting to try to find itself. It is an exciting time for all of us participating in the real world, real time implementation and analysis and discussion of the Government 2.0 and Gov 2.0 movement.
The three themes of this upcoming Gov20LA are going to be:
1. Business inside Government and how it is rapidly becoming different, things like SCRM are being deployed and government is basically being forced to restructure itself.
2. Goverments’ use and management of social media in crisis like the earthquake, hurricanes, wildfires and large scale urban fires, and protests and riots.
3. Engagement is now being taken as a for granted thing, “everyone has a facebook page” but how real is it and how are crowd-sourcing and public private partnerships re-arranging the landscape?
Here is a video from Gov20LA 2010 which sums it up nicely:
