The forthcoming edition of the European Journal of ePractice will focus on government 2.0: hype, hope or reality? http://www.epractice.eu/en/node/288847

It is a good time to start taking stock of government 2.0, distinguishing between fulfilled and unfulfilled promises. We can see great momentum now, with countries like UK and US putting gov20 at the heart of their modernisation agenda, and the EU Ministerial Declaration putting transparency and participation as first point.

I owe the readers of PdF Europe an update on the Open Declaration on European Public Services. This is a case of "public innovation without permission", where a groups of Gov2.0 enthusiasts tries to disrupt the EU policy-making process from the outside, by creating a bottom-up declaration which will be presented alongside the official Ministerial Declaration on e-government in Malmo this week (www.egov2009.se).