Tim O'Reilly on Government 2.0
At this year’s Aspen Ideas Fest, Ethan Zuckerman live-blogged Tim O’Reilly’s talk on Government 2.0.
O’Reilly laments our turn to “vending machine government” where taxes go in and services come out. We must undo this, returning to the core of what government was and should be: “a platform for collective action.”
He outlines four types of interaction between citizens and governments:
- G2C: services and info to citizens
- C2G: reporting on problems, directing government
- C2C: “not every problem needs to be solved by government”
- G2G: cooperation within/between governments and government agencies
The path to an effective government platform, O’Reilly says, can be informed by lessons from the technology space. In a nutshell:
- Build open, expandable systems
- Build simple systems and let them evolve
- Design for cooperation
- Learn from your users
- Lower the barriers to experimentation
- Build a culture of measurement
- Throw open the doors to partners
More details about each point and more at Ethan’s blog.
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