Comments on: Gov 2.0 and ‘Reinventing Government’ http://govfresh.com/2009/12/gov-2-0-and-reinventing-government/ Open Air Government Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Philipp Mueller http://govfresh.com/2009/12/gov-2-0-and-reinventing-government/comment-page-1/#comment-4953 Philipp Mueller Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:20:19 +0000 http://govfresh.com/?p=2684#comment-4953 great interview! I have been re-reading reinventing government and must say that it makes the open government argument in a different vocabulary. Steering-not-rowing, empowering-the-community, collaborative-governance are all aspects of open government understood as strategy not "the use of social media in government." The core question needs to be: "how can we re-engineer our processes through open value chains?" or "how can we leverage local knowledge, outside experts, increased legitimacy from participation, and crowds to create public value by building open interfaces to our policy and management processes?" great interview! I have been re-reading reinventing government and must say that it makes the open government argument in a different vocabulary. Steering-not-rowing, empowering-the-community, collaborative-governance are all aspects of open government understood as strategy not “the use of social media in government.” The core question needs to be: “how can we re-engineer our processes through open value chains?” or “how can we leverage local knowledge, outside experts, increased legitimacy from participation, and crowds to create public value by building open interfaces to our policy and management processes?”

]]> By: Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – July 23, 2010 | Gov 2.0 Radio http://govfresh.com/2009/12/gov-2-0-and-reinventing-government/comment-page-1/#comment-4945 Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – July 23, 2010 | Gov 2.0 Radio Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:34:54 +0000 http://govfresh.com/?p=2684#comment-4945 [...] Blumenthal: Should the Government Hire Eminem?Lindy Kyzer: Setting standards for social mediaLuke Fretwell: Gov 2.0 and ‘Reinventing Government’Abby Phillip and Kim Hart: Bringing government up to [...] [...] Blumenthal: Should the Government Hire Eminem?Lindy Kyzer: Setting standards for social mediaLuke Fretwell: Gov 2.0 and ‘Reinventing Government’Abby Phillip and Kim Hart: Bringing government up to [...]

]]> By: Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – July 23, 2010 « #2010Left http://govfresh.com/2009/12/gov-2-0-and-reinventing-government/comment-page-1/#comment-4944 Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – July 23, 2010 « #2010Left Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:34:35 +0000 http://govfresh.com/?p=2684#comment-4944 [...] Blumenthal: Should the Government Hire Eminem?Lindy Kyzer: Setting standards for social mediaLuke Fretwell: Gov 2.0 and ‘Reinventing Government’Abby Phillip and Kim Hart: Bringing government up to [...] [...] Blumenthal: Should the Government Hire Eminem?Lindy Kyzer: Setting standards for social mediaLuke Fretwell: Gov 2.0 and ‘Reinventing Government’Abby Phillip and Kim Hart: Bringing government up to [...]

]]> By: Justin Herman http://govfresh.com/2009/12/gov-2-0-and-reinventing-government/comment-page-1/#comment-4941 Justin Herman Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:38:44 +0000 http://govfresh.com/?p=2684#comment-4941 Open Government will not go the way of Reinventing Government because Open Government is a (relatively) tangible thing that can be measured and benchmarked based on data made available, put in context, and utilized (such as reductions in FOIA requests as a basic example). It can be a shift from the public needing to request data and put it into context themselves to the government making the data open to begin with and from there perhaps striving to put it in meaningful use context. Reinventing Government sounds like well-intentioned management speak of the era it was published in. Why not just say Quality Government, or Improved Government? I can get on board with all of those things, and a year later those things can evaporate in thin air. Government reinvents itself all the time - redundancies don't hold up well with age. Open Government will not go the way of Reinventing Government because Open Government is a (relatively) tangible thing that can be measured and benchmarked based on data made available, put in context, and utilized (such as reductions in FOIA requests as a basic example). It can be a shift from the public needing to request data and put it into context themselves to the government making the data open to begin with and from there perhaps striving to put it in meaningful use context.

Reinventing Government sounds like well-intentioned management speak of the era it was published in. Why not just say Quality Government, or Improved Government? I can get on board with all of those things, and a year later those things can evaporate in thin air. Government reinvents itself all the time – redundancies don’t hold up well with age.

]]> By: Can Social Media Lead To More Open Government « Random Thoughts of a Boston-based CTO: John Moore's Weblog http://govfresh.com/2009/12/gov-2-0-and-reinventing-government/comment-page-1/#comment-828 Can Social Media Lead To More Open Government « Random Thoughts of a Boston-based CTO: John Moore's Weblog Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:30:40 +0000 http://govfresh.com/?p=2684#comment-828 [...] the same areas as I listed for businesses above.  With that said, I was surprised when I read this post on govfresh.com discussing Reinventing Government.  When asked “What impact will social media have on getting government to make real changes [...] [...] the same areas as I listed for businesses above.  With that said, I was surprised when I read this post on govfresh.com discussing Reinventing Government.  When asked “What impact will social media have on getting government to make real changes [...]

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