In-House Counsel

Public Services Summit

Several hundred people representatives from the public sector in around fifty countries came together in Sweden last week in an event organised by Cisco and the City of Stockholm.

A social media record of the event has been created at www.cisco08.com.

A recurrent theme at the event was how to enable innovation in large organisations such as those which tend to predominate in the public sector. Maintaining an innovation culture is also an issue for large companies in the private sector so this is a rich theme for the mutual exchange of ideas between technology companies like Cisco and colleagues in government.

I contributed to the event with a specialist session on the Power of Information agenda.  This is a UK government developed strand of work that aims to promote innovation in government services by enabling people to make creative use of government information sources.

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Full post as published by Cisco High Tech Policy Blog on December 15, 2008 (boomark / email).