A free web chat program, a few laptops and a whole lot of motivation for harnessing the power of mobile technology to provide citizen services came together inside a Starbucks in the heart of the nation’s Capitol this week.

In all, 18 participants from 11 federal agencies, private companies and non-profits spent time Wednesday on various tasks associated with building a Mobile Gov Wiki to further the mobile government movement. In two hours, they had five new articles created and 15 articles edited on the wiki, a living web site that allows users to easily create, edit, and organize web pages. Keep reading →