Service Mash-ups will be the theme for this years event taking place October 5-8th at the Westin Hotel in Ottawa, ON. 

Industry leaders and government organizations at all levels likely share similar views on how to enable better government services through information technology, but do they share a common vision of how to get to government 2.0?  If you put leaders in a room and asked them to paint a concrete picture of a government 2.0 service, what would it look like?

Web 2.0 developers use a tool called a mash-up to combine data from more than one source into a single integrated tool. In a similar way, GTEC’s Government 2.0 (G2.0) Conference will bring leaders together to “mash-up” public sector programs and services to uncover the underlying issues that enable or prevent governments from innovating service delivery.  Rather than offering a series of presentations, GTEC’s conference will challenge community leaders to collaborate on a vision of government 2.0 services based on actual benefits and limitations of their policy and operating environments.

By showcasing programs and services in parallel environments, we hope to clarify opportunities for integration, communication and innovation in service delivery for governments at all levels.

Some Key discussion topics will include:

• Identity management and authentication
• Virtualization and cloud computing
• Social collaboration tools
• Workplace 2.0 strategies
• Building sustainable IT/IM business cases
• Shared services policy implementation
• Citizen centric services