WRITTEN ON May 14th, 2007 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Uncategorized

A call from the long-suffering David Osimo prompts this thought. David works in IPTS, a European Commission (DG JRC) research team which looks at e-government research including web 2.0 for government – see this piece for example). David is in London for GCExpo 12th-13th June, and keen to meet up with people interested or involved in

web2.0 (or whatever you call it) in government and services of public interest. Scope: not only eParticipation, but also service delivery and back office, knowledge management, interoperability, policy development etc. I am interested on EXISTING projects already using these technologies and (especially) this approach, in order to understand the risks and opportunities, the impact, the governance model, what is new in it, the potential for larger scale deployment. Therefore, I look for the project managers (PUBLIC SERVANTS, CIVIL SOCIETY). But also I am interested on POTENTIAL applications, for example listening at IT COMPANIES to understand their web 2.0 offer to government. Finally I look for RESEARCHERS on this topic in order to exchange views. The overall aim of my work is to give a synthetic and sound view of WHY e-government policy-makers should bother about web2.0, and HOW governments could invest on this.

He then has to present to the EU ministerial e-gov conference in Lisbon (19-20 Sept). So, if you want to catch up with David leave a comment here or drop him a line David.Osimo[at]ec.europa.eu, and fix to meet him at the GCExpo.

Which reminds me: all Ideal Gov readers are invited to the GCExpo 12-13 June at Earls Court – just register here and see you there. We are preparing something utterly fabulous for it – a sensational Ideal Government walk-thru experience, but I’m too excited about it just now to relate what it’ll be like in a dispassionate manner. Just make sure you show up!