Problem is that primarily the management from governmental organisations like where I work, see this thus as an individual hobby from individual employees. Because, in there opinion, an emplyee at the governement has a working code and that is that he just has to follow orders and do what he or she is told to do.

Spontaneous participation is unwanted and seen as a waste of time. On-line participation as a civil servant in Governement 2.0 activities and communities are not how management thinks that their emplyees should do their work. So no time for that. We keep stuck in the old way of working in old procedures, meetings, writing papernotes for internal use only.

So let’s start to
1 convince the mangement of governmental organisations that another way of working is possible.
2 let’s make sure that resource (time, money) become available for, for example, a structural function like ‘web-moderator’ and
3 let’s try and convince the managementof governemental organisations that participating in on-line web- or governement 2.0 activities are not just an unwanted waste of time and just personal hobbyism.

Quite a task ahead I think, and I do agree with mr diMaio that there is a lack of empowerment to participate for the individual governmental employee.

As I found trying to employ social media as research tools, too many government bodies won’t give staff access – so we have a long way to go!

Mick – http://greatemancipator.com

http://blog.webworldtechnologies.com/?p=16

The points to discuss here are pretty obvious. I.e., will Facebook & Twitter actually be broad-scale adopted by Govt?

This requires the participation and buy-in of not only government employees but of policy makers. Ultimately, the programs will be carried out by employees who need to be involved in this huge cultural change.

I said it in Spanish.

However, it makes me nervous to see approaches to ‘government 2.0′ that assume it’s JUST about increasing the voice and power of citizens and service users. Of course, it IS very much about that. But it’s mainly about the dialogue between ALL stakeholders in governmental (and governance) structures and systems. Ensuring that citizens, in particular, benefit from more transparency, participation and empowerment is an especial priority right now, given how poorly they have been treated in respect of these principles in the past. But we should be campaigning for these principles to apply all other stakeholders, too, particularly frontline workers and trade unions, given their current low positions of power. Moreover, let’s explicitly celebrate the roles which service professionals, middle managers, top managers and politicans need to play – and the need for the three principles to apply to them, too. (For example, backbench parliamentary politicians who are disempowered by power-freakish executives also deserve our active support).

So, I’d like to propose that ‘government 2.0′ is defined as the use of modern technologies to enrich the dialogue between citizens and ALL other stakeholders in public services and public policy. Andrea, that’s a suggestion for your definitions section in the research note you are preparing!