Alena Popova

Hello everyone!
We’ve lauched a new service called eGov Live recently. The idea of this project has emerged due to an enormous number of comments that were addressed to me: could you deliver the information about variety and locations of public services in a simple way? How does society itself benefit from these projects? Why is everything…[Read more]

Today Genome Project has launched their new application that is called Compass that is aimed at incresing the rate of successful startups, many of which fail and disappear due to premature scaling as the research has revealed. As for me Startup Genome Compass is a great example of sunthesizing the theoretical framework and practice background.…[Read more]

There is a persistence prejudice in the world that e-government development here in Russia has stalled. That Russia has no e-Government at all.
Last year I’m actively involved in eGov development in Russia and let me break that constant myth. We have now launched a united platform/incubator for e-government startups in Russia – gov2people.ru…[Read more]

At the beginning of the year our team has launched an online incubator for e-government startups in Russia – Gov2Project.ru. As always there were a lot of opinions that such initiatives are hopeless in Russia, etc. Everyone tells me that gov2project is too naïve to be on the market and particularly on Russian market. I would agree with their…[Read more]

The trend of public online panel discussions is continuing its development. The relevant President’s decree has been released in February. Now media reports that on 1st of June the discussion system of legislative initiatives is going to be launched on the government.ru website – the program name is “Open Government”. Every citizen can be…[Read more]

Our Gov2Project teampresents you the digest on latest news in Government2.0 (Citizen 2.0) area. The digest’s mission is to inform the society on how civil projects develops in Russia and inform you on the situation of Russian Government2.0 development.

So, what’s happening now in Russia on Gov2.0 projects?

IST-Budget projects leaders (government…[Read more]

Within the recent Government21 Conference which has been held in Moscow on April 13 I’m publishing an interview with Alan Silberberg – founder and CEO of Silberberg Innovations. Speaker at the panel discussion on the Government21 Conference.

Watch the video below:

Best cases of e-official that you know. Who is the best e-official in your opinion?

My interview Government 2.0 in Russia: megabyte democracy – An interview with russian
e-gov-expert Alena Popova was published this week.
The author of the blog is Julia Talmazan. She lives in Vancouver and blogging about Russia, from the perspective of someone who was born
in the USSR, but grew up in Canada. Thank you Julie for the…[Read more]

I’m organizing Russian Conference on Gov 2.0 and Looking for participants and speakers who is ready to visit Russia and share experience in the field of Gov 2.0Also we are looking for Experts ready to take part in Conference via Skype

Conference in Tver – 1-2 of July 2010 – G2G
Conference in Moscow – 15-16 of September 2010 – G2B
Conferen…[Read more]

I believe GovLoop Experts can tell more about cases of Gov 2.0 in their countries and advice succesful stories or projects that can be useful for Russia