Brian Drake has some interesting commentary on last week's Gov 2.0 Summit:

There were a few areas where I felt the conference just didn't quite hit the mark. First was the whole "Government as a Platform" theme. I found myself agreeing more and more with Andrea DiMaio on the idea that government is quite the opposite. At several points during the conference I just felt that the analogy was exactly a fit. I don't think this issue was as damaging as I feared. I was glad to see the volume on this dial tone turned down.

The second issue I had was with the focus on citizen participation. Clearly the focus of the Summit was on showing government executives the value of citizen developers. "Just open the data up!" was the transmission and our receivers were on. I felt like this focus often left out those of us working inside of government and do not have a way/responsibility/reason to liberate data.

He's right on the mark here - there's a huge sector of government practitioners who are interested in advancing Government 2.0, but who need actionable information and business cases to take to their bosses. Right?