The document discusses the potential for governments to embrace new technologies and social media to become more transparent, engage citizens, and empower the public. It argues that governments need to move beyond just informing citizens and recognize that the public has valuable knowledge to contribute. While some governments have started to engage online, much more progress is needed to fully realize the possibilities of openness, participation, and collaboration that new technologies enable.

1. Public engagement. Public empowerment. Thoughts on possibility for Government 2.0 Stephen Collins acid labs

2. Connect? Share? Learn?

4. there are no bad ideas – just different ones

5. passive consumption is pointless – do tweet, blog, comment, challenge and ask as you get out of this what you put in The new rules

6. Where have we been?

7. Just do as we’re told

8. They want to talk

10. a researcher and the information

11. a citizen and a public servant

12. a citizen and her information

13. a citizen and her experience with the government http://www.horsepigcow.com/2007/05/25/government-20-butterfly-wing-storm/ Tara’s architecture for Government 2.0

14. Where are we?

15. We could be so much further on.

16. Hope

17. Was this the moment it all changed?

18. Office of Public Engagement http://whitehouse.gov/ope/

19. “ Our commitment to openness means more than simply informing the American people about how decisions are made. It means recognizing that government does not have all the answers, and that public officials need to draw on what citizens know.”

20. Overheard at breakfast

21. “ ... get out there on Twitter and Facebook and whatever.”

22. A big deal

23. Not here.... yet.

24. Where are we now?

25. Just talk with us! http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeshlabotnik/305410323/

26. Epic fail...

27. “ ...change has depleted the resources that were once provided by... older, denser forms of association.” Michael Pusey The Experience of Middle Australia http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521658446

28. Participate or be hyperisolated

29. Trusted sources

30. “ Hyperconnectivity begets hypermimesis begets hyperempowerment.” Mark Pesce Hyperpolitics (American Style) http://blog.futurestreetconsulting.com/?p=61

31. Power to the people

32. This doesn’t fit the 21st Century

33. “ The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” Gilmore's Law

34. Ermmm... http://www.flickr.com/photos/85113745@N00/483650725

35. Keeping check

36. Why by third parties?

37. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

38. Direct access

39. “ I'm a great believer in these collaborative technologies opening up some tremendous possibilities for better government.” Lindsay Tanner Australian Finance Minister http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,,25428629-5013040,00.html

40. Is the message getting to the doers?

41. Embrace the change

42. #s92a http://www.geekzone.co.nz/blog.asp?postid=6247

43. #nocleanfeed http://www.flickr.com/photos/allyeska/3371427471/ . Used with permission.

44. It’s always 20/20 looking back

45. #publicsphere http://dld.anu.edu.au/public-sphere

46. Engaged + accessible = more social capital

47. Reboot the model

48. #gov20camp http://barcamp.org/Government20Camp

49. Many options http://blog.gc20.ca/index.php/2009/04/types-of-web-20-government/

50. Use good tools.

51. Us Now http://usnowfilm.com

52. Build skills

53. “ ...in the hyperconnected world, engagement is predicated on understanding and utilising social media.” Jason Ryan State Services Commission

54. Best possible outcomes

55. FTW!

56. They already know the way

57. Open data

58. Information wants to be free(ish)

59. “ Government data prepared for public reuse should be offered in multiple-formats, be machine-readable and adhere as closely as possible to lightweight standards.” Vivek Kundra US Government CIO http://www.gcn.com/Articles/2009/04/29/Kundra-talks-data-gov.aspx

60. Free data has superpowers

61. Portable, sharable, managed data

62. “ Raw data now!” © TED/Asa Mathat http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html

63. Discoverability http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/adding-search-power-to-public-data.html

64. Global implications http://www.nationmaster.com /, http://www.wolframalpha.com /

65. Public safety http://www.google.com.au/landing/victorianbushfires/

66. CDC social media tools http://www.cdc.gov/socialmedia/h1n1/

67. WHO social media http://twitter.com/whonews WHO social media tools

68. http://healthmap.org/en HealthMap

69. Where are our great examples?

70. Governance, yes. Dumbocracy, no.

71. Less bureaucracy = greater momentum http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/google-health-first-look.html

72. You say you want a revolution* * With apologies to the Beatles

73. Time to engage here

74. It’s coming

75. Hand-in-hand

76. More information. More and better sources.

77. Empower. Engage.

78. Yes we must © Scout Tufankjian, http://www.scouttufankjian.com /

79. Imagine http://www.flickr.com/photos/midnight_trucker/376653652/

80. License http://www.slideshare.net/trib http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

81. Like the cool pictures? Mostly from iStockphoto.com and Flickr. Others as marked, used by permission or under fair use provisions.

82. Stephen “trib” Collins [email_address] +61 410 680722 skype trib22 twitter trib www.acidlabs.org