Web 3.0 Could Lead to E-Government That Anticipates Citizens’ Needs

In a growing number of instances, software applications — not the human end-users — will evaluate the usefulness of Web page content, online data and sensor information. Where Web 2.0 was about users contributing data manually and interacting with one another regarding that data, Web 3.0 is focused on applications that search on behalf of users for data that’s likely to be of interest. The next step, of course, is asking, what will these new machine-to-machine technologies mean for state and local governments?