Google CEO asks techies to show Governments the way…
October 18th, 2006 by Lloyd Gofton
Speaking at Tuesday’s public symposium in Washington, hosted by the National Academies’ Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said: “The average person in government is not of the age of people who are using all this stuff. There is a generational gap, and it’s very, very real.”
The day’s discussion was focused on how aspects of computer science and telecommunications will look in 2016, and made some interesting points into the convergence of media, net neutrality and copyrighted content.
However, the online generation gap is something we have been discussing at Liberate Media this week, and that’s the point that hit home. As we discovered, the UK evidence proves the generation gap is actually shrinking, but Mr Schmidt’s point about the average person in government not using ‘this stuff’ has been evidenced recently in the UK. Or at least not using social media to its full potential.
Not forgetting Mr Cameron’s (leader of the Conservative party in the UK) exploits, and related opposition spoofs, government is certainly missing a trick when it comes to communicating with the electorate.
Can we see better use of social media coming out of the UK Government as well please? I’m sure there are a range of people willing to show the way…if only there was a way of contacting them…
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