Author of machiavelli.net, proud father of three, interested in shaping network society. Welcome to my blog.Tag Archives for gov20
Ignoring the ROI of Openness
I am back from Berlin, where we were discussing at the google collaboratory how to evaluate the impact of open government. While the excitement about enterprise 2.0, government 2.0, and open government has been building, critical voices in organizations have … Continue reading
New Statecraft and New Strategy
I am sitting in my apartment at Peapody Terrace, overlooking the Charles River wrapping up my time at Harvard. Teaching in the collaborative governance program with Jack Donahue, Akash Deep, Tony Gomez-Ibanez, Chris Letts, Edgar Aragon and Mary Hilderbrand was … Continue reading
My Talk at the ISPRAT CIO Conference in Vienna
I am just coming back from a wonderful day of debate with Germany’s and Austria’s top policy makers in the information technology field. The conference headlined by the new German CIO was titled Information and Communication Technologies as Strategic Instruments … Continue reading
Culture, Politics, and our Networked Lifeworlds
By: Philipp Mueller and Violetta Pleshakova In 2010, it has become a truism that culture, lifeworlds, and our political economies are transforming. It is obvious that the Web is impacting society, bringing in new lifestyles, attitudes, values, work patterns and … Continue reading
State of the eUnion: Government 2.0 and Onwards
Just in time for the EU minsterial conference in Malmö, John Gotze brought together some of the most prominent thought leaders, including Don Tapscott, Tim O’Reilly and Lawrence Lessig, in the emerging field of Government 2.0 (“thinking government as a … Continue reading
The Long Telegram of the 21st Century
There are not many instances when a governmental memo shaped the political philosophy of a generation. Clearly Kennan’s Long Telegram comes to mind: The ‘Long Telegram’ was sent by George Kennan from the United States Embassy in Moscow to Washington, … Continue reading
Discussing the IDC Framework: Ideation, Deliberation, and Collaboration
as we are learning to use social media in organizations, we overestimate some aspects of this new approach and are confused about others: What is new, what is not? What is hype, what is real? Therefore, it is a time … Continue reading
Revisiting the Death of New Public Management
In this “breathless” time where new conceptual frameworks emerge by the minute, it makes sense to step back and reflect on our thinking of… last week. In the “revisiting” series, I want to point to some of the older postings … Continue reading
