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Create your Open Government Web page—fast!—using Microsoft SharePoint and the Gov 2.0 kit
Use our Microsoft SharePoint accelerator templates to give you a head start on site development and get your Open Government Web page on the fast track. 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:
- Streamlined implementation of your Open Government Web page.
- Timely publishing of information online in the format of your choice.
- Public feedback using easy-to-deploy social connections and optional integration with Twitter and FaceBook.
- Auditing and post-tracking.
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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.
In the spirit of Web 2.0, this wiki lists US government Web 2.0 endeavors, by and
for government agencies.
Bill Schrier, Chief Technology Officer for the City of Seattle, Washington, discusses
the challenges and opportunities of Web 2.0.
Blogs? Wikis? Surveys? This govtech.com article offers some ideas for putting Web
2.0 to work in local government.
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).
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Microsoft Government Guides
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Follow FutureFed
for federal government on Twitter.
FutureFed
blog: Find out what's on our minds and tell us what's on yours.
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a star! Create an "innovation in government technology" video and upload it to our
YouTube channel.
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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.
Social computing is not a passing trend. Think of it in the context of a broader
enterprise collaboration strategy.
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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We asked government CIOs how they were looking at Gov 2.0. Watch these short webcasts
to see what they had to say.
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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."
JackBe delivers dynamic enterprise mashup solutions for Microsoft SharePoint. Mashups for SharePoint help civilian, military, and intelligence agencies securely and easily combine, transform, and share information from SharePoint, cloud-based, and other data sources for better reporting, insight, and analysis. Mashups for SharePoint can support critical agency initiatives including project management, budget analysis, Recovery/TARP reporting, and secure, citizen-facing transparency data feeds. Mashup for SharePoint demos, videos, how-to guides, and sample code can be found on JackBe's Mashups for SharePoint site.
MicroLink is 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 Technologies a 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.
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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.
Gather, assess, and share critical intelligence to improve preparation and response
Manage critical incidents with an interoperable command and real-time communication
solution
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