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The Shift from eGov to WeGov

Global mechanisms like the OGP encourage multi-stakeholder engagement. International actors like the World Bank can catalogue these partnerships, connect practitioners to each other, and aggregate demand from government and civil society partners. It’s about brokering knowledge, learning, and innovation between governments and other stakeholders. Finance becomes instrumental to lubricate the path of knowledge exchange. While this is not a traditional role for development Banks, helping governments partner with citizens to solve pressing social and economic problems may be the most important role they can play going forward. 

via blogs.worldbank.org

Hat tip to ITdnrab.

A brief recap of recent Gov 2.0 events

I'm well overdue a detailed recap of the last few weeks of Government 2.0 related event. But time is getting away from me, so I think I'll have to admit defeat and just point you at some photos and coverage elsewhere:

The LGWebNetwork conference

This was a really fantastic conference (check out some the feedback they received). Reem and Diana did a great job and I appreciated their attention to detail, even down to the event publication. I was there as a part of panel on community engagement. The conference site also has a selection of audio recordings from the event, including the opening and closing key notes. You'll find more photos on Flickr.

Public Sphere #3
(Geoff McQueen presenting at Public Sphere #3)

Check out Sen. Kate Lundy's blog for the official wrap up post - however, there is still time to participate on the wiki. There were also a couple of interesting posts here:
I spent most of the day running the live blog, but I also presented in the morning on why the Web 2.0 industry was different and what government could do to support it.

Panel at UNSW
The night before NSW Public Sphere, I was invited to participate on a panel hosted by Martin Stewart-Weeks and with Matthew Crozier as part of a lecture. It was good to step into an academic context for a moment, just to get a different view point on the hype around Government 2.0. However, these masters students engaged intelligently with the issues and ideas, not the buzz words. 

NSW Public Sphere (+ Us Now screening)

I started the day at 7.15am with a screening of the Us Now movie for a few fool hardy souls. As well as providing food for thought for the rest of the day, this also did double duty as part of the Us Now Global Screening Project initiative started by Celina Agaton. The big announcement of the day of course was the launch of the apps4nsw competition (you can read the transcript on Penny Sharpe's blog). I posted my slides from NSW Public Sphere in a previous post, which pretty much called for something just like apps4nsw as a next step. I've suggested to Penny that a great next step for NSW Public Sphere would be to run an co-design event to feed into the apps4nsw competition. Also worth reading is this wrap up post from Grant Young. If you are interested, there are also more photos on Flickr.

BTW If you are interested in the idea of Public Service (Co-)Design, there is a list of some useful links at the end of my CPD paper.

Overall, I think you'll agree things are really starting to move beyond talking to actually doing something useful with the Government 2.0 idea.



Slides from NSW Public Sphere - Us Now: New South Wales

via slideshare.net

These are my slides from NSW Public Sphere yesterday. Shortly after my presentation, the NSW Premier announced the apps4nsw competition and data.nsw.gov.au, which is exactly the kind of initiative I was advocating in my presentation.

Also, if you're interested in exploring this concept of public service co-design (or simply service design) that I mentioned, there are some links referenced at the end of this recent Headshift paper for the Centre for Policy Development.

Writing our own Us Now story | Pool

Here at Pool we're always keen to hear about new trends and ideas in social media. So when we heard about a screening of Us Now in Sydney, a UK film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the Internet, we just had to share it with you. We asked one of the main 'unorganisers' of Us Now Sydney, Headshift consultant James Dellow, to blog for Pool about the film, the Sydney screening and how it all came about. James asks us to think about our own Us Now Australia story
via pool.org.au

BTW the Pool is an interesting project in itself - the intent of the site, which has been created by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is to provide an "online ‘town square’ for all Australians... where audiences become 'co-creators'". They are gradually releasing media from the ABC archives to the site so it can be remixed. Worth checking out.

Screening Us Now around the world #usnow #usnowsydney

We're getting closer to Us Now Sydney on Thursday evening and its exciting to know that in doing so we are in good company, with recent screenings at the the Hague and the French National Assembly and another is taking place at the Palace of Westminster in the UK tomorrow (it will also be shown on UK TV's Channel 4's More 4 digital channel on Friday). I wonder, does this mean Us Now Sydney will be the first public screening of the Us Now documentary in the Southern Hemisphere - it could be? Either way, I'd love to know who else has screened it around the world outside of Europe (for example, I know about the earlier screening in Toronto, Canada) or anyone who is planning a public screening. PS There is another screening planned in Canberra on the 29th too as part of a Web Standards Group meeting.