Gov 2.0 as (political) platform
Tim O'Reilly has been talking about government reinventing itself as a platform. We're not talking about a computing environment to deliver services, but rather the government as the very enabler of private civic action.
Can we imagine a new compact between government and the public, in which government puts in place mechanisms for services that are delivered not by government, but by private citizens? In other words, can government become a platform?Tim's unstated mission is techno-libertarianism, an anti-government political stance. Instead, an Internet-enabled government should be capable of serving both communitarians and free-marketeers. Any investment in infrastructure should survive the inevitable cyclical changes of elected government.
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