There are some people you should never ignore. That’s the clever people. So, whilst working over in the US we’ve been making sure we’ve had our ears (and eyes) open listening to lots of clever people sharing their clever ideas of what the future (and present) model of government (and governance) should look like.
One concept in particular that we’ve picked up is the idea of “government as a platform” – an idea which Tim O’Reilly (*founding father of pithy clever concept articulation*) has been effusively espousing for a while in Gov2.0 circles.
Not to be out articulated, we’ve developed this concept on further to include a central tenet of modern governance – which is “participation”. Our take on the future of governance is what we call “government as a participative platform” – the idea of government opening it up in such as a way that allows it to be shaped (via data and ideas) by the citizens.
This is best explained via our quick presentation below:
Government as a participative platform
Excitingly for us (and governments across the world) we’ve been working on turning this vision into reality with a new (hush-hush) project we’ve been working on. So – fingers-crossed – we should be able to share the realisation of “government as a participative platform” with the world in the months to come ; – )
