An Ignite style, short and fun look at my experiences attending and speaking at the O\'Reilly Media Gov 2.0 Expo in Washington DC in May 2010

1. Patrick McCormick Manager Digital Engagement Department of Justice Victoria what I learned @ #g2e! reflections on the Gov 2.0 Expo in Washington DC

2. Gov 2.0 Expo - brought to us by Tim O’Reilly technology book publisher and net guru

3. O’Reilly media also hosted the first Ignite session in 2006 and coined the term ‘web 2.0’ in 2004 DC Metro farecard automated, integrated! 21 st century government IT event: cloud computing, collaboration tools, cyber security, data management, open source, open data, virtualization Gov 2.0 Expo DC Metro ad

4. and speaking of advertising on the DC Metro DC Metro based policy debates

5. Melbourne Sydney Los Angeles Atlanta Washington DC Linux? full disclosure: trip was self funded and I slept on my friend’s couch…

7. Oz, VicGov and DOJ compares favorably with global best practices in Gov 2.0 me Nicholas Kate Mark

8. so many great speakers and compelling topics and… !? heaps of ipads

10. New Orleans Community Data Center taps into the wisdom of crowds with usable apps lowering technical and bureaucratic barriers to information sharing

11. U.S. Department of Defense using social media for strategic ‘asymmetrical’ communication making use of diverse Information sources and tools

13. Bill Eggers on “accepting the mission for greatness” …and wait, his brother is Dave Eggers!? Bill we can do this… Dave at Melbourne Writers Festival in ‘07

14. Sunlight Labs Clay Johnson announced contest winners Sunlight focus on design builds on successes in app functionality

15. using government data to create an environment for some healthy competition between counties

16. putting government spending in perspective with stunning infographics

17. mapping public spending to build transparency and accountability

18. an open plans project empowers citizens to police unruly government employees

19. Tim Berners-Lee invented the web and advocates for accessible, linked data doing for data what the net has already accomplished by linking documents and pages

20. describes a shared approach to linked data with a bag of potato chips… machine readable ingredients nutritional value

22. Thanks! Patrick McCormick [email_address] twitter: @solutist