Social Networks will complement & replace some government functions says Gartner / Publictechnology.net, 28 October 2008
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"By 2011, 70 per cent of social computing deployments in government that achieve business benefits will do so in unplanned or unexpected ways, according to Gartner, Inc. Government organisations around the world are showing great interest in social computing, yet deployment so far is relatively limited."