Leveraging New e-Government Services Through the Open Social Standard

Social networks and cloud computing solutions are two of the contemporary trends governments are eagerly trying to engage and use Mexico's recent experience exploring ideas related to cloud computing and social networks shows that through these technologies governments can go beyond being users and become driving forces within the new technological landscape while providing a new generation of e-government services In that light this Executive Update explores how the Open Social Standard OSS can become a starting point to do so