New York State Launches Web 2.0 Initiatives
On June 5, the New York State Office for Technology announced Empire 2.0, a strategy to encourage state agencies to use "Web 2.0, new media, and social collaborative tools and technologies" to improve communication and services, and facilitate transparency and openness in government.
The Office for Technology is leading the way. Since May it has launched its own Facebook and Twitter accounts, a wiki for developing IT policy and strategy, and crowdsourcing Web page that collects pubic comments and ideas for future projects.
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