Last month, I linked to a post
about Enterprise
2.0 from Tom Davenport's Harvard
Business Review blog. (Davenport is one of today's leading
voices in KM--he holds the President's Chair in Information Technology and
Management at Babson
College, where he also
leads the Process Management and Working Knowledge Research Centers.) Today I'm posting an excerpt and link to Davenport's thoughts on
"Government 2.0," or the use of social computing inside government
organizations. Davenport
begins his post by discussing a May 21 interview with Wikinomics
author Don Tapscott on
NPR's "Talk of the Nation."
He [Don Tapscott] was talking ... about the
transformation of government by Web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0. I don't doubt that
these tools will have some impact on how governmental information and services
are delivered. I also don't have any doubt that they will not drive as much
change as Don (and his co-author Anthony Williamson as quoted in a CIO Insight article) apparently believe they will.
Although Davenport's post
does touch on the future of Enterprise
2.o in government, his main focus is whether the overly optimistic or emphatic
statements of "gurus" like Tapscott are helpful--or not. He ends his post with a
question: "What do you think--should management and technology gurus moderate
their expressed views, or is it the more utopian and visionary the better?"
Go to Tom's blog to read more, including comments.
Click here to listen to the "Talk of the Nation" interview
with Don Tapscott.