"Why Government Technology matters to you"

Worth a mention for those interested in how the gov develops technology. I bet these days they can learn a lot about developing technology, especially cms and social networks, from open source software communities. I know, the NSA was/is using SNA to spy on US citizens. Chilling! But any tool, email, phone, etc, has the potentional for wrong-doing.
From Gilbane Group, "Why Government Technology matters to you"."Well of course there are lots of obvious reasons it matters. But what is under-appreciated by many of us in the private sector is how often the government leads the way in developing, fostering and exploiting technology. This is especially true with information technology.
Speakers include:
GAO, FAA, NASA, FirstGov, Navy, Forest Service, EPA, OMB, World Bank,
PostNewsweek Tech Media, NPR, Government Computer News, White House,
GPO, International Trade Commission, Department of Energy, Social
Security Administration, DOT, and many more.
Topics include:
Content management, enterprise search, XML, business cases, content
modeling, open source CMS, best practices, records management, content
security, publishing, text mining, and new technologies being used for
government applications including blogs, wikis, RSS and Podcasting." Some of the topics, blogs, wikis, rss, podcasting fit in with the web 2.0 ideas and what we've been working on with open souce projects and services.