by Paul Johnston
London-based ex-civil servant now working for Cisco as head of the European public sector team within IBSG, Cisco's global strategic consulting arm. Launched and helped shape this site after wri... More about Paul Johnston
Web 2.0 and the Public Sector
This is the version of the Government 2.0 paper that we used at the Public Services Summit in December. Its a slimmed down and improved version of the original draft. We plan to do a final version early in 2009. At the event the strongest push back was on transparency where there was a strong sense that the need for confidential advice put major limits on what could be achieved - I am not sure I buy that, but lets leave that to another day! Another interesting bit of feedback was the suggestion that its not just - or even perhaps mainly - about improving the public sector ("Govt 2.0") but about transforming society ("Society 2.0). Interesting ...
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"...the strongest push back was on transparency where there was a strong sense that the need for confidential advice put major limits on what could be achieved..."
I realy don't think this is a show-stopper. This challenge has always existed yet we've managed to come a long way in improving transparency in recent times. What it tells us is that adoption of government 2.0 needs to be a thoughtful process and that there are limits to the public benefits of transparency. In the future, as in the past, the most sensitive information will be transmitted verbally and in ways that do not allow it to be captured.....
posted about 1 year ago