Today’s tech-savvy world demands tech-savvy government. Increasingly connected citizens and stakeholders are asking governments to deliver services more rapidly and efficiently. Yet the public service bureaucracies that form the governmental backbone often take a conservative approach to adopting the latest Internet-based technologies to accelerate service delivery.

On June 3, 2008, Deloitte and the National Academy of Public Administration convened a group of government leaders, subject matter professionals and forward thinkers to develop a road map to help the next administration navigate the work force and organization changes that need to occur to move to a more collaborative model of government. View media coverage of the event. 

In the spirit of Web 2.0, the session incorporated a variety of interactive elements, including a collaborative support environment with a pre-event survey; prediction markets; discussion boards and blogs; visual cartography (download four charts from the session below); voting tools; and Blackberry comment and question submissions during the live event.

Speakers for the event included:

• Frank DiGiammarino, co-founder, National Academy of Public Administration’s Collaboration Project
  • A copy of his presentation, Closing the Gap on Transformation, is attached below
• William Eggers, global director, Public Sector Industry, Deloitte Research
• Stephen Goldsmith, director of innovations, American Government Program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government
  • A copy of his presentation, Grass Roots Government and Web 2.0, is attached below
• Bruce McConnell, president, Government Futures
• Greg Pellegrino, managing director, Global Public Sector, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
• Harry D. Raduege, Jr., chairman, Deloitte Center for Network Innovation 
• Mike Wertheimer, assistant deputy director and chief technology officer, Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Web 2.0: The future of collaborative government
Coming soon! Download this high-level summary of the Web 2.0 session, which includes key insights provided by the speakers and attendees, an overview of initiatives defined during the session and an overall summary of key themes concluded from the session that could be pursued by the next administration.

As used in this document, "Deloitte" means Deloitte LLP (and its subsidiaries). Please see www.deloitte.com/us/about for a detailed description of he legal structure of Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries.

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