/FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alex Gakuru <gakuru@gmail.com> Date: Tue, May 5, 2009 at 10:31 PM Subject: [ke-internetusers] The Internet Revolution is less than 15 per cent complete To: ke-users <ke-internetusers@bdix.net> A great presentation by Michael R. Nelson, Professor, Georgetown University. Amazing Slide no 36 Steps in "The Government Innovation Journey" (from Todd Ramsey, IBM, 2007) Online Government -> Interactive Government -> Integrated Government -> Extended Government -> Collaborative Government Slide 37 SO WHAT’S GOVERNMENT’S  ROLE? 1. Early adopter of new technologies (such as Virtual Worlds, Grid) 2. Promote competition and investment in telecom infrastructure 3. Enable new access technologies (e.g. WiMax) 4. Education and training 5. Foster open standards and open source software 6. Help create a foundation for a secure Internet 7. “Future proof” your policies <http://www.foreseeresults.com/_downloads/presentations/DC08_TheCloud_Nelson.pdf> _______________________________________________ ke-internetusers mailing list ke-internetusers@bdix.net http://www.bdix.net/mailman/listinfo/ke-internetusers