Major Takeaways from the Transforming Local Government conference:

Need for government to have a well developed strategic plan that incorporates the community wants and needs.

The community wants and needs more and more effective and clear communication from government. 

Keynote Speaker: Milo Medin – Vice President of Access Services for Google

Empowering Transformation with Strategic Use of Technology

Prediction of 3 tech tools that can/will be strategically used by government.

1. Smart phones – 50% of wireless subscribers use smart phones.
2. Machine to Machine – M2M
3. The Cloud
   1. It is better storage, make for better, faster, easier, sharing & communication.

Government examples:

1. Multnomah County
2. New York Public Library
3. NOAA

Now if we could just get this e-book thing sorted out!