Top Ten for Government 2.0 in 2009

Almost inevitably the last few days of the year feature an impressive number of lists – on newspapers, magazines, web sites, radio and TV programs – about the best and the worst that happened during the year that is about to end.

As 2009 is my first full year as a blogger, I could not resist developing my own, very personal top ten in the area of government 2.0 and surroundings. As in the most classical tradition of top tens, I will go in reverse order, from number ten to number one, and provide my own, again very personal and totally arbitrary mark to each of those entries.

Coalition to Lobby U.S. Government to Promote Open Source

A large group of vendors and U.S. universities organizes to boost awareness and advocate more governmental use of open-source software to save money on application development.

Open Source in Government Is Irrelevant

Did I get your attention? I was sure I would.

Of course I do believe that both open standards and open source do play an important role in government (and I won’t get into explaining the differences – after six years that people discuss about this I’m confident we all have a fair idea).

Government 2.0: A Gartner Definition

I have just publish a note that provides Gartner definition of Government 2.0 as the use of IT to socialize and commoditize government services, processes and data.

Is Cloud Computing Killing Open Source in Government?

I know that some reader will raise their eyebrows reading the title. After all, cloud computing is intimately connected to open source: Linux servers are at the basis of most cloud infrastructures, and several applications that can be consumed as a cloud-based service are either open source or based on open source components. One may be almost tempted to look at the two as being strictly intertwined and mutually dependent.