Government 2.5: Traditional Information Technology Evolves
December 7, 2009
I have just returned from my endnote at the International Online Conference in London. On December 14, 2009, I will be taking one of the 10 trends for 2010 from my London UK talk and expanding on the idea of dataspaces, not databases. Most governmental entities are anchored in traditional database technology. Although state of the art in the 1970s, the RDBMS framework is ill suited for the rigors of Government 2.5 information.
I will be attending the CoolBlue Government 2.5 conference in Washington, DC, on December 14 and 15, 2009. You can get full details about the conference from the program’s Web site.
You can get a glimpse of what’s in my talk. Just search this Web log for the term “dataspace”, and you will get some background information. The dataspace technology is one of Google’s crown jewels, and it a core capability little known outside of a small circle of wizards. You can see a tiny fragment of the dataspace technology in action if you navigate to the Google Wave information page and do some exploration.
My remarks created quite a stir in London on Thursday, December 3, 2009, and I anticipate a similar reaction in Washington on December 14, 2009. Googlers are largely unaware of the dataspace technology, how it embraces the Google programmable search engine, and the company’s push to become the Semantic Web.
I will be linking these technologies to likely government use cases. If you want to talk after the event, just write me at seaky2000 at yahoo dot com. I will make time to visit with Government 2.5 attendees.
Stephen Arnold, December 7, 2009
Oyez, oyez, I want to alert the mayor of Washington, DC, that I was not paid to write this blatant self promotion or mention the CoolBlue conference. I think the conference’s PR manager will buy me a Diet Pepsi. I have my Web feet crossed.
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