There has been some criticism that Gov 2.0 is:
- Just another buzz word
- Just people talking about stuff, no one doing stuff
I disagree, certainly with the 2nd point. Most of the Gov 2.0 people I know and/or follow on Twitter are the doers. Here's a list of who some of them are, certainly not comprehensive, in no particular order:
- Brian Sobel, InnovationGeo, Are You Safe, iLive.at
- Dmitry Kachaev, D.C. OCTO R&D
- Philip Ashlock, Open Planning Project, Open 311
- Josh Tauberer, GovTrack.us
- Jim Gilliam, act.ly, GovLuv.org, TweetProgress.us, WhiteHouse2.org, and NationBuilder.com
- Andrew Turner, GeoCommons, FortiusOne
- Everyone at Sunlight Labs
- Carl Malamud, public.resource.org
- Jen Pahlka, Code for America
- Leonard Lin, Code for America
- Steve Ressler, GovLoop
- Noel Hidalgo, New York State Office of the CIO
- Raymond Yee, UC Berkeley
- Peter Corbett, iStrategy Labs, Apps for Democracy
- Kevin Merritt, Socrata.com
- Hillary Hartley, NICUSA, Citizen Space
- Guy Martin, Forge.mil
- Silona Bonewald, League of Technical Voters, citability.org
- Kevin Connor, LittleSis.org
- Greg Elin, United Cerebral Palsy
- Noel Dickover, DoD Office of the CIO, DoDTechipedia.mil
- Jon Udell, Microsoft, ElmCity
- Kim Patrick Kobza, Neighborhood America
- Jay Nath, City of San Francisco
- Wayne Moses Burke, Open Forum Foundation
- Micah Sifry, Personal Democracy Forum
- George Thomas, GSA
- Alan Silberberg, You2Gov.org
- Steve Lunceford, GovTwit.com
- Joseph Porcelli, Neighbors for Neighbors
- Luke Fretwell, GovFresh
- Chris Rasmussen, Intellipedia, NGO
- Pam Broviak, MuniGov 2.0
- Bill Greeves, MuniGov 2.0, Roanoke County, VA
- Jeff Levy, EPA Web Manager, Federal Web Managers Council
- Adrian Holovaty, Everyblock, chicagocrime.org
BTW, we need both "talkers" and "doers." Some people are both. Some people are connectors. Not everyone is an implementer. I tried to stick to implementers; to pick people who have projects and/or organizations dedicated to or related to Gov 2.0. There are some obvious names not on this list. That's probably because they are not implementers. Doesn't mean they're not important. If I missed someone you think should be on the list leave a comment. Be sure to tell me what project they're on. I certainly don't know everyone.
I'll try to come back with links and pictures.
