Gov 2.0 Camp

Organic conference organizing is alive and well.  Gov 2.0 Camp being held at one of my favorite Washington D.C. High Schools, Duke Ellington School for the Performing Arts, is a two day gathering that brings together the best minds in government and new media.

The conference, or un-conference itself is a representation of the great capabilities of the professionals at the conference.  From Toronto to Seattle to Washington DC, from CTOs to application developers, arrive to a conference where the agenda prior to the event is not set.  In the morning attendees, all 2 or 300 of them, arrive to propose topics and ideas for the day.  Once everyone proposes the session ideas for the day, organized chaos the likes of the Wall Street floor ensues, as people buy and sell ideas to merge sessions into compact sessions.

What's amazing to see in this dynamic environment is the representatives from government agencies as far and wide as the Navy, Air Force, EPA, Voice of America, the White House, Organizing for America, the City of Seattle, Washington DC Metro, Department of Defense.  There is no doubt new web strategies for government were on the road to the District prior to the arrival of the new administration. However, with the success of the latest political campaign and agencies in 2008 to leverage web strategies for successful impact, web 2.0 or what ever you want to call the new media world, has definitely set up camp inside the beltway.  My hope is that it brings real change to people outside the beltway.