One of the bi-products of interest in government 2.0 issues by the web 2.0 crowd is lively networking. Not only do we have a busy calendar of live and virtual events, we're seeing emergence of lots of virtual groups too. Here's some that have caught my eye.

• Tim Bonnemann of Intellitics compiled "14 Facebook groups for the dialogue, deliberation, public participation, e-government and e-democracy community" including "I support participatory democracy!," "Government 2.0," and "Participatory Budgeting"
• Ric Cantrell, Chief Deputy in the Utah State Senate, has started a linkedin.com group called "Government 2.0" (that's their logo above) and is managing associated emailings. From Rick I learned about a workshop in Algeria to better connect government with the public and media.
• one of the oldest networks is DoWire.org, Democracies Online. At DoWire you can find groups focused on democracy and software, a practitioners network, mobile government and more
• The World Bank has recently started the "DFGG Peer Learning Network." DFGG is a catchy acronym for "demand for good governance" and the group is "building a community of practice to strengthen and scale up demand-side governance efforts"

Please send me email or leave comments about groups I've missed.

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