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Public Sector in the Cloud

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Google is targetting public sector organisations with mix of products and services. The Google for the Public Sector site has a selection of case studies matching technologies with tasks in marketing, information gathering, policy formation and operations.

The 2008 elections demonstrated how technology can increase political participation, and now we’re beginning to see the power of Web 2.0 come to government. On the heels of last week’s Gov 2.0 Summit in Washington, D.C., we’re excited to launch Google for the Public Sector, a one-stop shop of tools and tips that local, state and federal government officials can use to help promote transparency and increase citizen participation.

Official Google Blog: Introducing Google for the Public Sector

http://www.google.com/publicsector/

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Earlier this year Seattle based Blist changed their name to Socrata and their focus to “social data discovery”, working hard to make government data more interactive.

http://www.socrata.com/about

About | Socrata | Making Data Social via kwout

In the meantime Sunlight Labs is acting as a focus for open source developers and designers to encourage and enable government transparency.

http://www.sunlightlabs.com/

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All of this gives me the feeling that institutional transparency is no longer optional, and that feels good.

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