National Library of Australia Digital Culture Talk: Dr Strangelove or: How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love The Gov September 24, 2009

You can credit Barack Obama for bringing sexy back to government - it's 2.0! - but the change has largely been driven by self-organised communities collaborating across disciplines and borders. Who are these people? Well, us. Citizen activists, ethical hackers, open source public servants, digital library and museum workers. The web has allowed collaboration between people (and their machines) on a scale never possible before. Customers, constituents and people within the public sector are all beginning to feel a new sense of agency. It's not e-gov, it's we-gov. But let's not be a tease. How does it work, now?

Bernard de Broglio, Internet Coordinator at Mosman Council, will share some of his stories of internet life at the local level.