Government Articles
Gov 2.0 at Google Zeitgeist
Don Tapscott on reinventing government at Google Zeitgeist.
NY Times: Remaking Government in a Wiki Age
Maybe we are all thinking too much like Bolsheviks and not enough like Googlers. For Lenin and the Russian revolutionaries, the big question was “Kto kogo?” — essentially, “Who has the upper hand?”
Open Data, Open Government
Last month, the B.C. government unveiled DataBC, a broad initiative to make available at no charge a wide array of data gathered by government that had previously mostly sat unused in filing cabinets.
Open Government & Change
Don Tapscott discusses the difference between open government and access to information during MaRS Discovery District’s Net Change Week.
G8 and the Internet: Sarkozy Messes With a Good Thing
The irony couldn’t be more obvious. After staging a piece of political theater called the E-G8, which French President Nicolas Sarkozy used as a platform to champion the notion of much tougher government control over the Internet, the president today will welcome to...
Digital Technology Can Bring Democracy to Life
On Monday at the MaRS Centre in downtown Toronto, Research and Innovation Minister Glen Murray unveiled an important example of how digital technologies can bring to life the fuzzy “participatory democracy” notion championed decades ago by former prime minister Pierre...
Why Did We Ignore Obama’s Social Media Lesson?
After watching how Barack Obama revolutionized campaigning for the digital age, it’s bizarre that, nearly three years later, the parties in our election all ran old-style campaigns of the broadcast era. The upshot was a social media vacuum that was filled by many...
Digital Technology Can Bring Democracy to Life
On Monday at the MaRS Centre in downtown Toronto, Research and Innovation Minister Glen Murray unveiled an important example of how digital technologies can bring to life the fuzzy “participatory democracy” notion championed decades ago by former prime minister Pierre...
World Business Forum: Rebooting Business, Education and Government
Don Tapscott on rebooting business, education and government and the net generation at the World Business Forum in Milan.