The forthcoming edition of the European Journal of ePractice will focus on government 2.0: hype, hope or reality? http://www.epractice.eu/en/node/288847

It is a good time to start taking stock of government 2.0, distinguishing between fulfilled and unfulfilled promises. We can see great momentum now, with countries like UK and US putting gov20 at the heart of their modernisation agenda, and the EU Ministerial Declaration putting transparency and participation as first point.

I owe the readers of PdF Europe an update on the Open Declaration on European Public Services. This is a case of "public innovation without permission", where a groups of Gov2.0 enthusiasts tries to disrupt the EU policy-making process from the outside, by creating a bottom-up declaration which will be presented alongside the official Ministerial Declaration on e-government in Malmo this week (www.egov2009.se).

As previously blogged, we are building an Open Declaration on Public Services 2.0 (http://eups20.wordpress.com), to be presented in Malmo at the EU ministerial conference.
We have now published the draft version of the declaration, which tries to summarize all the good ideas submitted in a short and readable text (http://eups20.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/draft-declaration-published-and-t...).

CROSS POSTING FROM Open Declaration Blog http://eups20.wordpress.com

I see many metaphors on government 2.0 around. It’s a good sign we’re doing an effort of self-awareness and shared understanding – very much in line with the Open Declaration. We need to structure our thinking and to communicate it better to government. We need to go from cool project to policy proposals, as we write on the eups20 workshop report.
Here are 4 different visions I came across:

In the framework of the European Open Declaration on Public Services 2.0, several proposals are being posted on http://mixedink.com/Eups20/Manifesto
In this post, cross-posted from http://eups20.wordpress.com, I illustrate a specific challenge to the deployment of public services 2.0: the need for digital and media literacy.

My version of the declaration (author “osimod”, title “second version”) has a specific priority on skills and education, which is missing in others. In my opinion, public services 2.0 can happen only with educated citizens and civil servants. Why?

Every two years, EU Ministers gather to agree on a Ministerial Declaration on e-government (http://www.scribd.com/doc/16546743/Ministerial-Declaration-180907), which is the main European strategic document.