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The Collaboration Project is an independent forum of leaders committed to leveraging the interactive web and the benefits of collaborative technology to solve government's complex problems. Powered by the National Academy of Public Administration, this "wikified" space is designed to share ideas, examples and insights on the adoption of Web 2.0 technologies in the field of public governance. [LEARN MORE]

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Featured Case Study
Coast Guard Social Media Initiative

Faced with a coming "revolution" in information management and social networking, the U.S. Coast Guard, under Commandant Thad Allen, began a service-wide initiative to utilize technologies such as YouTube, Facebook, and blogs, to adapt to accelerating change and improve communication processes within the service.

Just months into the initiative, thousands of visitors to the Commandant's daily blog, thousands of "fans" on the Facebook pages of the USCG and Commandant and many followers of the Coast Guard's YouTube channel are enabling the Coast guard to interact on a more collaborative level than ever before.

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Featured Content
Enabling Collaboration: Three Priorities for the New Administration

President Obama has called for government to become more transparent, participatory, and collaborative. The Collaboration Project recently issued a paper highlighting three priorities that the new President must focus on to make this vision a reality.

The paper, titled Enabling Collaboration: Three Priorities for the New Administration, encourages the President to: 1) create an open technology environment, 2) treat data as a national asset, and 3) foster a culture and framework for collaboration.

By focusing on these priorities, President Obama can begin transforming federal agencies and departments so that they can execute the goal of a more open and transparent democracy.

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Ed DeSeve and Earl Devaney on the Recovery Dialogue: IT Solutions

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Upcoming Events and Conferences — Our very own VP Lena Trudeau to represent the Collaboration Project at several exciting upcoming events and conferences
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