Last week I was part of an O'Reilly Gov 2.0 online conference, Gov 2.0 Internation: Global Meeting Local Challenges.

I spoke on UK Innovations in Gov 2.0 (or 'You say Gov 2.0, we say digital engagement'), giving attendees (viewers?) from round the world a taste of the journey the UK has been through in embracing web 2.0 in government.

Clearly it's a quick canter through one man's take on the UK's journey and doesn't cover everything, but I'd love to hear views on the story I tell and anything I may have missed.

You can also find links to all the websites I mention in the presentation over here.

Ruth Carnall, NHS London's Cheif Executive lent her support to the Go London Social Innovation competition last week. Here she chats about the benefits of an open call for ideas and the importnace of becoming active as an integral part of everyday life. 

We're really pleased with all the great ideas that have come through, as well as people using our chatter stream to talk about what inspires them to get active. 

Go London! 

Over at TweetyHall we are asking if and how we should create hashtags for councils on Twitter.We’re looking for opinions on whether this is something worth doing. We would like to work with you (as residents, politicians and councils) to allocate each local council area a three letter tag. In this way we hope to be able to help keep thin.... Read More

Last but not least in the slides from Monday's FutureGov Network meets Measurement Camp event. Thanks Ingrid!

Thanks to everyone who participated in the FutureGov meets Measurement Camp event yesterday, hosted at Edelman's swanky offices.
Here's a bunch of stuff from the day:

Slides presented by Dominic Campbell of FutureGov
http://www.slideshare.net/lesteph/evaluation-why-s.... Read More

Just to quickly point you to this new report from the RSA and direct you to their website to read more.

Worth a look (as is most of their research) ...

Today is the FutureGov meets Measurement Camp session - to follow all the action check out the hashtag:

#FGMC

We'll stick the slides up here as well...