China: Jinan can Lead the Way in #gov20 and #opengov

China: Municipalities throughout China Could Lead Government 2.0

China: Municipalities throughout China Could Lead Government 2.0

Municipal and Provincial leadership in China is ready to help make government the strategic lever for policy reforms that the world seeks.

I keynoted an event on the cloud in Government in China recently and the governments in China appear poised to embrace the Government as a Platform ideals and help to push Government 2.0 efforts.  My conversation started with an explanation of the need for change in government worldwide.  This explanation was met with enthusiasm throughout the audience and follow-on conversations were supportive.  I was happy to see an embrace of the idea that from now on, government platforms must be designed to scale from the beginning.  And it is important for all of us to get the largest government on the planet to help push that idea.

It is instructive that the discussions were spurred on by conversations around cloud computing.  True scale in these efforts will contemplate the cloud and it is heartening to know that our partners in China will be helping to make that happen.  And that they are willing to help lead the rest of the world toward a common set of outcomes surrounding the Government 2.0 movement.

Of particular interest was my discussion of the millennials and their impact on the conversation as well as the very form of government itself.  The changes this generation will bring is going to be massive as we have seen already on the technology landscape.

I look forward to further conversations with my new found friends in Jinan and throughout China.

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People Pushing Gov20 Deserve Credit

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/newmark/detail??blogid=67&entry_id=68676

Have to totally agree with Craig here.

It is difficult for Government to attract innovators from the start so when we see those doing a great job, we need to celebrate the success.  As a former CIO advocating for large degrees of change I can personally attest to the challenges these folks have.

And yet they still push hard, and are having a great effect.

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We will win together, or fail individually: The #gov20 challenge

I love great movies (even when they are American Sports references, sorry to ll of our global readers).  I love great speeches.  I love motivation.  And I do so, because of many of the things inside this speech.  And the Government 2.0 movement is at this place, right now.

The founders of the movement toiled through years of being the minority, of gaining little attnetion.  Of margianialization.  And then, the 2008 American Presidential Election.

All of a sudden our points were made eloquent by one of our country’s best orators.  He laid down the open government directive gauntlet as a first step.  He appointed a rebel to CIO.  He embodied the revolutary mantra and ethic, surely this movement had arrived.

But an economic crisis interceded.  A healthcare challenge.  A midterm election disaster.  And questions abound.  About him.  About us.  About the movement.  We are down, a bit.  But we are far from out.

As Pacino says in the clip, the inches are all around us.  We just need to take them.  We need to shoulder on through the current controversy.  We need to ignore the charletans and those who might simply try to profit off of the momentum.  Igonre these market timers of the movement.  We need to have the guts to take what is our destiny, not just despite the odds against us, but becuase that opposition is there.

No gain made in life that is worth the effort happens without trial.  Without unbelievable effort.  And the best occur when we leave every last drop of sweat, every ounce of energy, every last bit of our passion out there on the playing field, and collapse, victorious.

As many of you who follow my blog know, I believe in both the Rebel and the Revolutionary.  This post is way on the Rebel side of the argument, but I am actively involved with the Revolutionary spirit.  I fight to invest, to deploy, to cajole, to plan and to create long term vehicles to help carry your message.  And I believe that our movemnt must embrace the cypherpunk ethic “Gov20′ers write code”.

We need even more of that.  In light of the criticism, deploy a solution.  Write an app.  Form a community.  Join a meetup.  Organize a Social Media group inside your government.  Deploy Citizen based systems that treat citizens like customers.  Drive performance metrics.

But most important, adopt a new point of view.  You see, while revolutions depend on great speeches that move masses of people to take some form of collective action…real revolution only happens inside individual people.  and, it is all that we, in fact, can control.  And the greatest point of all, it is completely within our own control.  Nobody can stop us from taking on a new point of view.  Your boss cant force you not to have it.  Your husband can’t stop you from thinking about it.  Lack of time in a day cant stop it.  Bad community leadership, a questioning press corps, FOIA requests, opposing political parties…none of them can touch it.  And even better, you can recommit to it each and every day, it costs nothing and you need no permission.

Lets start today.  And grab those inches.

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