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Not something I agree with in it's entirety, but some decent food for thought and something to prompt discussion.
My main concern is coming at change in government from a "tools first" perspective. Instead the 'back end' of government needs to act like a platform, not just the 'user interface' i.e. govt needs to start running projects and activities as a platform - inviting in social innovators, geeks/experts, citizens etc to work on offline things as well as online things to make sure that a culture of 'government as a platform' is woven through the fabric of what it does.
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David Barrie
on 07/07/09 at 21:19
said:
David Barrie
on 07/07/09 at 21:19
said:
I'm a lousy good-for-nothing History of Art graduate, but isn't this 'platform' thing a bit old hat? Wheeled out by HBS public management gurus about a decade ago. But if you *are* channeling this 'magic carpet' idea - one which I believe in passionately btw - u might be interested in 'Deep Multi-Sided Business Models', outlined here.
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