“Government 2.0: Rethinking government and
democracy for the digital age
This is a time of great peril and great promise for government. Around the world, governments are reeling under the strains of the financial meltdown and global economic crisis. Plummeting tax revenues, bank bailouts and infrastructure investments made to keep national economies from the brink of collapse have drained government coffers, causing in turn a crisis in the funding of basic operations. And in many parts of the world democracy itself isstalled, with low voter turnouts and cynical public attitudes towards government.
The irresistible force for cutbacks is meeting the immovable object of public expectations about what government should be and do: they should be better, providing better services, healthcare, safety and stability for our troubled economies. So while cost control measures may be necessary, they are clearly insufficient. We can no longer tinker with government – we need to reinvent it…”
The book, edited by John Gøtze & Christian Bering Pedersen, is available for free download here: http://21gov.net/book/
To learn more about the project: http://21gov.net/
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