As we mentioned yesterday, we are launching a GovLoop Advisory Board to help us make GovLoop more awesome. More info yesterday
Why Government?
All of this social innovation, in turn, raises new questions about government and its changing roles and form in the future. Could societies “open source” government much the way thousands of dispersed Linux programmers converge on the Internet to develop one of the world’s leading computer operating systems? Would large-scale, Web-enabled consultations improve political decision-making or channel greater ingenuity and urgency into efforts to solve global challenges like climate change? What about the provision of public services; could government agencies use ongoing collaboration with citizens to deliver better services with greater speed and less overhead?
Finding the answers to these intriguing questions is what communities like GovLoop are all about. What’s more, innovators inside and outside government can now build on the new connectivity GovLoop provides to launch bottom-up solutions to public sector challenges, big and small. As an author and consultant, it has been a privilege to spend more than a decade observing and writing about these trends as they affect government and society at large. Now, as an advisor to GovLoop, I’m delighted to be taking the next step: working with a dedicated and growing community of people that share my desire to make government fit for the 21st Century.
Anthony Williams is co-author with Don Tapscott of the international best-seller Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything and the forthcomingMacrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World(Sept, 2010). Now published in 26 languages,Wikinomics was a finalist for the Goldman Sachs/Financial Times “Business Book of the Year” Award and on the must-read lists of publications such as the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek and the Huffington Post.
Welcome and thank you, Anthony!
Welcome Anthony!
Anthony, you ask good questions – thank you. Looking forward to Macrowikinomics.