Have You Thought Social Media Would Conquer the Public Sector?

When you go to the events Gov 2.0 at Facebook you will find the most powerful people in the world sharing their unique way of going into a new world where technology and communications join the largest social media platform in the world working together to bring the power closer to street citizens.

The mission statement: “Our mission is create a new discussion and new avenues for technologists to rise to the call of public service, offering up their Internet expertise to its best and highest purpose”.

United States Department of agriculture is on Youtube, Facebook, Twitter and they are using Social Media and web 2.0 interactivity to connect with people around the world . The United States Department of Agriculture blog is giving support to gardeners, Tribal College graduates, Minnesota winery reach customers, they have partnered with the United States Agency for International Development to end global hunger using science and innovation, and more.

Let´s Move is a program under Mrs Obama´s leadership whose purpose is to help overweight children join the action to lose weight and stay healthy. Again, web 2.0 resources, Youtube, Facebook, blogs are some of the tools Michelle Obama is using to virally spread her message and connect with people to join her in this healthy purpose.

Defense Department created hub for social media . Each one of the services has its own registration service.

On September 7 and 8 at the Grand Hyatt in Washington D.C. industry leaders and Government representatives will gather to brainstorm over next developments and share their working experiences.

The open data philosophy, as per Laurel Ruma, Gov 2.0 evangelist, “is the base of an innovation economy, startups are starting to form out of this open data”

Innovators from the private sector and the government will go to Gov 2.0 summit in September to share technology and ideas to help solve great challenges in education, health care, energy, jobs, financial reforms, rethink government agencies to make them more efficient and serve citizens and achieve better result with lower costs.

Open data, transparency, social media, are expressions being increasingly used in the public sector around the world. Government as a platform means having Social media, cloud computing, mobile technologies, web and new sources of innovation providing new capabilities for the government to achieve better results with lower costs.

Jose Damaso Ramon