About This Blog

FastGov is an act of "found innovation" as inspiration for institutional improvisation in public service.  Like found art and found objects, found innovation is a collection of seemingly unrelated things from almost anywhere that may have a bearing on where government is going, even (and maybe especially) when the implications are not entirely clear.  The blog is never intended to be the last word on anything, but perhaps the next word on everything as we think through the gut instinct that there is a there there.

Decidedly eclectic and sometimes irreverent, FastGov is also an act of flattery.  FastBusiness magazine had been an important chronicler and looking glass during the dot-com era.  It did not attempt to displace the Harvard Business Review but was convinced there were other stories to tell in thinking through where business was going. It is time to bring that kind of thinking to doing the public's business ... and the conversation starts here.