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The event organizer and Kennedy School student Yasmin S. Fodil said she hoped participants will apply what they learned at the unconference to “explore how government can use technology to be more efficient, collaborative, and transparent.”
Unlike more traditional conferences, the Government 2.0 camp allowed participants to focus on topics that interest them and share their ideas by leading their own sessions, according to the event’s co-organizer Sarah E. Bourne, who is the Mass. government’s chief technology strategist.
Bourne added that she hopes a similar participant-driven event in the future would allow attendees to raise “more sophisticated questions” once local government services start using more social media tools.
“It’s a nice benchmark for how use of these tools has matured and integrated into providing government services,” Bourne said of the level of questions raised during such events.
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