Emerging Tech

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As government agencies at all levels bring their services online, Americans are turning in large numbers to government websites to access information and services. Further, citizen interactions with government are now moving beyond accessing websites to use of other online platforms such as blogs, social networking sites, email, online video or text messaging to get government information. eGovernment advocates, such as Tim O’Reilly, envision a coming era of “government as a platform”, where citizens access and use open government data, build their own apps, and start to collaborate directly in the process of governing. - Pew Research Report: Government Online