Disruptathon!

I attended a Disruptathon last night (May 26) at the British Embassy. Put together by Pete Ericson, and hosted in part by Cynergy, it was a great gathering of individuals that were looking at what they were innovating now, and where innovation could go in the future.

The topic was government 2.0 and mobile innovation. Lots of great ideas on how the governnment could use mobile to be more productive internally, and also use mobile applications and their existing data streams to leverage outside mobile application developers.

Interoperability was a key - and the fact that smartphones were still oriented toward a leading edge segment of the population. Many of the organizations working today are using least common denominator standards like SMS to insure that they can get the message across.

This is an area of explosive growth, and there are many different features like geolocation that are under utilized today in the mobile phone arena. As more applications become more capable of utilizing these inherent features, and as more of the advanced phones move toward some kind of unified development environment, the state of the art will advance more rapidly.

Kudos to the organizers of this event.