W3C and eGovernment

While I was away, the W3C sponsored a workshop on eGovernment and the web. They covered some great topics, including TBL's keynote on Widescale Data Integration. Other topics of note:

• Britain's Vanessa Lawrence on Why Place Matters
• JL Needham, One Search Away
• David Capozzi on 508
• Kevin Novak and Michelle Springer of the LoC on Government as a Participant in Social Networks (these are very interesting)

Kevin and Michelle got into some very interesting areas. I guess I didn't understand how much the Library of Congress had done with blogs and RSS feeds. And I certainly didn't realize that they were looking at Second Life and virtual worlds. Kevin provides some good statistics on why this is important as we look to the future of government online.