In this class, we started out by looking at the differences between e-democracy, e-government and we-government. And then we turned to the growing discussion and practice around “government as a platform” or “government 2.0,” using seminal articles by Tim O’Reilly and Beth Noveck as starting points. We also looked at several concrete examples of “government as a platform” or “govt 2.0″ in practice, ranging from NASA Clickworkers, Peer to Patent and Apps for Democracy to SeeClickFix and OpenStreetMap.

The slides are here; the pencast audio is here; and the plain old MP3 audio is here.