President Obama's Initiatives to transform government to be more transparent, participatory and collaborative will impact the culture, processes, and perception of the government and the way citizens interact with it. These initiatives will also rely on and have an impact on the technologies that support government.

... The Internet is great for human interaction with people or information sources. What is still developing is the Internet as a "Data Cloud" -- information that can be found, understood, queried, linked and re-purposed. It is this kind of data cloud that would support President Obama's Initiatives. What would such a cloud look like?

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