Bill's Notebook

This was in my RSS reader but I didn’t get around to it until now.  Read the following and just imagine the implications for government in 2020:

“Toward Government 3.0

In the future, terms like socialization and commoditization as well as the founding principles of Open Government (transparency, participation and collaboration), will take a much broader meaning, as we face questions like:

• Should we allow people to package public services by composing basic services and information offered by an ecosystem of providers, only few of which would be government?
• Should we make operational data transparent and to what extent?
• Should we crowdsource real-time traffic management to car drivers and their devices?
• Will collaboration extend from citizen-to-government to consumer-device-to-government-infrastructure?
• Will government IT and OT applications run side by side with consumer applications (and share data) on what we call today the “public cloud”?

. . . it seems to me that the focus of almost all government 2.0 efforts today is on socializing data and commoditize some of the processes (e.g. government cloud computing initiatives).  To understand the deeper implications on participation and service delivery, we must open our minds to what “data” will mean in the future, and to how far socializing and commoditizing services and processes could lead us in a world where data from trillions of sources (people, institutions and devices) will be available to virtually every person and every device.

I am not sure we need a term like government 3.0 to conceptualize all this. However, if it helps us get passed the obsession with posting public data and developing social media policies, so be it. It is time to look at how the future will totally blur role, data, service and process boundaries as we know them.”