eGovernment 2.0: How can Government benefit from web 2.0?

The purpose of this paper is to identify the major global trends in social computing/ collaborative computing as they seem to evolve under the ‘web 2.0’ heading, evaluate possible future trends seen from a technology point of view as well as from a socio-economic perspective and compare these trends to the current state and need for eGovernment. Finally, some general guidelines, ideas and projections for eGovernment will be pro- posed and discussed.