From ELC: Congress access to MySpace could advance Web 2.0

  • By Michael Hardy
  • Oct 27, 2008

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. -- A recent change to congressional rules  that will allow members of Congress to set up personal pages on the social networking Web site MySpace, could accelerate the adoption of Web 2.0 technologies elsewhere in government, according to a speaker today on a panel at the Executive Leadership Conference.


"Once everyone know that that happened, the [chief technology officers] and [chief information officers] have an opportunity t o have a real dialog around it," said William McVay, executive vice president for business development at G&B solutions.


Such cultural shifts are hard for government to make, but, "what sense does it make for the legislative branch to be able to and not the executive branch?" McVay said.

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Technology journalist Michael Hardy is a former FCW editor.

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