Use our easy-to-install solution package, featuring Microsoft SharePoint accelerator templates that require little or no development support, to get your Gov 2.0 plans on the fast track—even if your team has little SharePoint experience. Built on a common, open-source codebase, so you can modify or improve the templates to meet your requirements, offer feedback and feature suggestions, and adopt improvements made by others.
The kit supports:
Easy-to-deploy, on-premise micro-blogging.
Easy-to-deploy, on-premise social connections.
Optional Integration with Twitter and FaceBook for one-stop posting or status updates.
Gov 2.0 is about two-way communication between government agencies and citizens.
It’s the promise technology holds for making government more efficient, transparent,
and responsive to citizens.
The next generation of government—Gov 2.0—has a unique opportunity to embrace today’s
engaging Web 2.0 technologies to respond to citizens with increased efficiency,
transparency, and openness. However, to make Web 2.0 practical for government, you
need an enterprise IT strategy that provides appropriate security, scalability,
and interoperability.
Download paper (1.2 MB).
The heart of Gov 2.0 is open communication. Here's a list of things to do both now
and later to help you communicate, collaborate, and connect with peers, partners,
and citizens.
Barack Obama's deft use of collaborative technologies has big implications for governance.
Four principles embodied by the Obama campaign can help governments to catch up.
The Open Government Data Initiative (OGDI) is an open source starter kit to help
government agencies publish data that can be queried by both people and software
using open Web programming interfaces (API's).
Get a head start with our Gov 2.0 sample plan. Add your agency name, fill in the
details, modify as needed, and you'll have a plan ready for approval.
Download the Microsoft Gov 2.0 Governance Plan. (Microsoft Office Word file,
84 MB)
Extend the Microsoft platform and products you already have with free add-ons and
resources that will help you bring Gov 2.0 to life in your agency.
Download a list of Gov 2.0 free add-ons and resources. (Portable Document
Format File, 305 KB)
As your Gov 2.0 objectives expand, you'll want to consider an enterprise approach
that will help you transform government with improved communication, collaboration,
and connections with citizens and across agencies.
The social software market continues to be fueled by increasing interest from buyers
looking for social interaction support as well as from vendors looking to establish
a foothold in a growing market.
Microsoft SharePoint delivers the power of social computing in the context of a complete collaboration solution—alongside the tools your people use every day.
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Information Strategies(InfoStrat)
delivers next generation Gov 2.0 solutions to federal, state and local government
customers across the United States. Founded in 1987, InfoStrat is an award-winning
Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with Gold Certifications in eight Microsoft competency
solutions areas. InfoStrat solutions, which are showcased on http://www.govserver.com, fulfill a wide
range of public sector needs, including e-permits, constituent management, financial
workflow, human resources, recruiting, field inspection and code enforcement."
MicroLinkis a leading provider
of innovative collaboration solutions to the government. Leveraging technology tools
that extend government agencies’ existing IT investments, MicroLink creates flexible,
intuitive, and cost effective solutions that improve how government works and enable
more effective sharing of information with constituents. These solutions blend capabilities
such as search, content management, collaboration, and business intelligence to
help government agencies fulfill the promise of making government more efficient,
transparent, and responsive to its citizens.
Neighborhood America
has served the collaboration and public participation needs of government for nearly
ten years as an enterprise social software provider. The company’s experience spans
all levels of government and its technology solutions have supported some of the
nation’s largest public outreach projects, including rebuilding efforts for the
World Trade Center, planning for the Flight 93 National Memorial, and reforming
the Department of Defense acquisition programs. Honored with the 2008 Codie Award
for the software industry’s ‘Best Social Networking Solution’ for enterprises and
recently named a finalist for 2009, Neighborhood America’s ELAvate platform provides
government with the Web 2.0 solutions they need--without compromising their need
for a secure, enterprise-class infrastructure.
Planet Technologiesa four-time
Microsoft Federal Partner of the Year (2005-2008) and Gold Certified Partner, is
a recognized in the Public Sector as a leading expert in the integration and customization
of Microsoft technologies and data center solutions to support Gov 2.0 initiatives.
We are subject matter experts in messaging and collaboration, portal solutions,
enterprise search, unified communications, virtualization, identity management,
user management, and data center automation. Our clients include some of the largest
government agencies in the United States.
Public threats put your Gov 2.0 transparency, participation, and collaboration strategies
to the test like nothing else can. Microsoft offers several solutions targeting
crisis management, from situation room visualization technology to message broadcasting.
I work for State government, and am interested in how Sharepoint master pages were used to make your site accessible. Is there a site or resource you could refer me to that would provide some detail in this area? reply to G Albrechtreport abuse
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Dean Halstead wrote on 10/15/2009 3:48:46 AM
G Albrecht - Are you interested in process we had to make Recovery.gov highly accessible or a different site? reply to Dean Halsteadreport abuse
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Seth Grimes wrote on 10/15/2009 10:56:49 AM
Dean, I admire your work, but I also have to point out that the recovery.gov relaunch had major accessibility issues, which I reported at http://intelligent-enterprise.informationweek.com/blog/archives/2009/09/relaunched_reco.html . Fortunately the Recovery Board took them seriously and had the implementation contractor correct them quickly. reply to Seth Grimesreport abuse
