Public Sector Leadership in the Age of Participation
Emerging web technologies and associated products (Flickr, Wikipedia, Firefox) are demonstrating a new model for leveraging broad-based community activity to create significant public value. This model of broad public participation has also delivered offline public value (for example, the "Let's Do It clean ups in Estonia and elsewhere). And, of course, it was successfully used in the political sphere in the Obama campaign of 2008.
What is the potential for this broad participation value building in meeting the major problems facing our governments today? In this new model, what role is there for elected representatives? What role for public servants?
This session will pose these questions and engage in discussion to try and come up with answers.
