Government 2.0: The Not So Secret Society of the GoveratiPresented by: Eric Hackathorn, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Session Description: http://www.nmc.org/2009-nml-symposium/hackathorn-keynote ‘Twittometer’ for determining crowd opinionOpen with Video: Goverai is connected with citizensAdmiral Grace “The most damaging phrase in the language is ‘we’ve always done it this way”GovloopObama is the first wired president. May be the first president to use email. Calling for transparency, collaboration. Network only as valuable as teh connections you can seeSpeaker known more by his SL avatar name than his own name.Video took approx a week and a half to produce.Questions/DiscussionWho will lead the Goverati, or is it a group effort? Imagine voting on steroids. Everyone can and should participate.Accountability can be crowd sourced and discussed out in the open.Which 3 Twitter feeds would you follow?Don’t have a really good answer for that one. Twitter is like drinking from a firehose. I rely on my network to determine who/what I should be following.What about problems with factions in the goverati?In wikipedia that’s one of the good things of factions. It’s ok to have diversity of opinion. What that means in terms of future governance models, I think those factions will help better represent public opinion and help influence a solution that is most representative.