SECTOR: PUBLIC

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) — One year ago, I published a post on the O’Reilly Radar blog called “Government 2.0: Five Predictions for 2010-2012.” In the post, I described some “non-exhaustive, somewhat creative, and entirely debatable trends and ideas” that I thought might take shape in the coming years. Here, I revisit these five predictions ... Read more »

Christopher Tucker (Washington, DC) — Over the past couple years, we have been watching the slow yet inevitable collision of the Open Government Initiative and the White House’s so-called Place Based Policy Initiative. While Government 2.0 has progressed quite far since William Eggers coined the term “Government 2.0″ in 2004, many of its most interesting examples ... Read more »

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) - Coming into my new role at Microsoft, I took on the task of reading more widely about business, communications, and other topics. I was very influenced by the new book Chief Culture Officer, written by Grant McCracken of MIT. It’s not about pop culture, and not about “cool hunting,” but rather ... Read more »

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) - Tim O’Reilly often explains Open Government, or Government 2.0, as “Government as a Platform” on which citizens and build things for each other and participate in their government (rather than treating it like a vending machine). The co-founder of Personal Democracy Forum and techPresident Andrew Rasiej has a similar notion that ... Read more »

Patrick Svenburg (Washington DC) - What happens when brainy folks from NASA, The World Bank, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google put their heads together to develop innovative solutions to humanity’s problems? Random Hacks of Kindness, or RHoK, is about building a community of innovative people who can contribute technology expertise to help make the world a better place. ... Read more »

Lewis Shepherd (Reston, VA) - A lot of people don’t realize that Microsoft spends billions of dollars a year on research and development, with laboratories near Seattle, Boston, and around the world. Most of the time, the researchers are huddled together and working hard in private, but every once in a while they come out to ... Read more »