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Title:

Government, Meet the People (Online)

Your vote:
Yes No
Organizer:
Justin Thorp, Clearspring.com
Description:
Today’s climate created the perfect scenario for the Web 2.0 community to help government become more transparent. Find out how Web 2.0 and government are working together a year into Obama’s administration. Have Web 2.0 technologies engaged people in government? Has the administration lived up to its promise of transparency?
Questions
Answered:
  1. A year later, is the administration still using social media tools? How?
  2. Which Web 2.0 technologies and social media tools are the government using?
  3. How can technology help lead to transparency?
  4. Which services are most popular for sharing government related content (Twitter, Facebook, etc.)?
  5. Is the Obama administration living up to its promise to be more transparent than the Bush administration?
  6. How transparent are we really being – who from the administration is really giving us this news?
  7. How can individuals harness technology to be heard by their government?
  8. Has community involvement and interest affecting policy decisions?
  9. What kind of government information is being shared most frequently?
  10. What else can the administration do to incorporate Web 2.0 and social media? Next steps?
Level:
Intermediate
Category:
Government and Technology
Type:
Panel
Event:
Interactive 2010
Anjuan Simmons
on 21/8/09
Very interesting. I cover Web 2.0 and the digital divide in my panel submission (http://bit.ly/Anjuan2). If we're both selected, I would like to have you on my panel!
Randall Klopping
on 24/8/09
I voted no because the Administration is using it as another tool for spinning rather than making themselves more transparent or to interact with us. I tried on the White House facebook page for well over a month to take part in the health care reform discussions he'd invited us to only to discover there was no interaction from any member of his staff. They have repeatedly evaded issues such as Social Security and other agencies that are already known to be broken and instead they just keep posting the same arguments and info that only believe supports their case! Commissioner Michael Astrue, head of the disability division of the SSA, even admitted that the violations of due process in a CBS News investigative report done in Jan. 2008 the White House uses the web 2.0 to create an illusion of helping the disabled by creating a new site, disability.gov, which is nothing more than the same information available on many disability sites with the addition of grants, none of which are targeted at all for disabled individuals to apply for so that we may rebuild our lives.
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on 3/11/09
My own sense is that transparency has been increased. While there's definitely much room for improvement, it's alot better than it was under the previous administration.
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on 3/11/09
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