Realizing Government 2.0

One of the most compelling attributes of Web 2.0 is that it transformed the static Interweb from something pushed at us to something that includes our inputs. The coincidence of Howard Dean's intelligent use of the Web, the rise of Facebook in public consciousness and Barack Obama's very technologically-savvy campaign has led to the expectation that Government 2.0 would quickly follow.

That hasn't happened, in part for many of the reasons our Mitch Wagner noted earlier this month, but most notably because of the huge numbers of people involved.

To read more, please see Realizing Government 2.0 on my Digital Life blog at InformationWeek.