http://www.opengovevent.com LONDON, APRIL 22nd 2009 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:58:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In the 2008 Presidential election, Barack Obama won the presidency by nearly 8.5 million votes, and a landslide victory in the electoral college. There is little doubt that a key part of this success was the campaign’s wholesale adoption of social media tools and ideas: by the time of the election ... http://www.opengovevent.com/mobilisation/ A social enterprise managing local recreation facilities.  An online group of mothers discussing and debating child care.  A Social Innovation Camp of programmers and issue advocates developing new online applications to address social issues. Delivery of a policy intervention or publically-funded programme has never been the sole remit of the government.  ... http://www.opengovevent.com/delivery/ Much has been made of the ability for internet technologies to herald a new era of participatory democracy.  However, current structures of governance and representative democracy have evolved for many reasons: deliberative analysis, recognising resource constraints, balancing competing demands, and taking a long-term perspective. Social technologies have massive potential to involve ... http://www.opengovevent.com/collaboration/ “New, networked models of government, combined with the emergence of Web 2.0 technologies that facilitate the requisite level of collaboration, will help governments improve how they work together both globally and locally to solve complex problems that would otherwise be impossible to solve." - Deloitte Research, 2008 http://www.opengovevent.com/22/ OpenGov Data A practical evening of discussion, debate & demos in relation to the creation of the OpenGov Platform which aspires to become an open source & open sourced platform for the publishing of open, public UK government data sets. To register & pay please use this link: http://www.mashupevent.com/event/opengov-event-data http://www.opengovevent.com/april-22nd-2009-london/