Since I heard that last year’s Gov 2.0 and Open Government Events Calendar was useful to the broader community, here’s this year’s version. There will be many other places around the globe for people to gather, talk and learn about Gov 2.0 in 2012 — just take a look through the many Govloop event listings. There will be any number of citizen-generated unconferences and hackathons, where the attendees generate the program. They’ll include CityCamps, BarCamps, PodCamps or MobileCamps. Check out the CityCamp calendar to find one near you and keep an eye out for CityCamp meetups in February.
The following listings are by no means comprehensive but should serve as a starting point if you’re wondering what’s happening, when and where. If you know about more Gov 2.0 events that should be listed here, please let me know at alex@oreilly.com or @digiphile.
Special note of thanks to the Intellitics 2012 conference radar and Gov 2.0 Radio calendar feed, which are both excellent resources.
Annual Open Government Partnership Meeting
April 17-18
Brasilia, Brazil
Website: http://www.opengovpartnership.org
Gov 2.0 LA
April 21
Los Angeles, CA
Website: http://www.gov20la.com
International Conference on e-Democracy, e-Government and e-Society
April 25–27, 2012
Venice, Italy
Website: http://www.waset.org/conferences/2012/italy/icdgs/
Transparency Camp 2012
April 28–29, 2012
Greater Washington DC area
Website: http://transparencycamp.org
4th ICTs and Society-Conference 2012
May 2–4, 2012
Uppsala, Sweden
Website: http://www.icts-and-society.net/events/uppsala2012/
International Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government 2012 (CeDEM ’12)
May 3–4, 2012
Krems (Austria)
Open Gov West 2012 (OGW2012)
May 2012
Location TBD
Website: http://www.opengovwest.org
Digital Governance in Latin America, LASA 2012 XXX International Congress
May 23–26, 2012
San Francisco, CA
Details: http://www.certop.fr/DEL/spip.php?article2465
e-participation: International conference on youth participation in the digital society
June 4–5
2012 Berlin (Germany)
Registration: http://www.amiando.com/eParticipationYouth.html
2012 Digital Government Society Conference (dg.o 2012)
June 4–7
University of Maryland
College Park, MD
2012 American Democracy Project and The Democracy Commitment Annual Meeting
June 7–9
San Antonio, TX
Website: http://aascu.org/Meetings/adp12/
University Network for Collaborative Governance 2012 Annual Meeting
June 10–12
Syracuse, NY
Website: http://www.policyconsensus.org/events/uncg_2012.html
Personal Democracy Forum
June 11–12
New York, NY
Website: http://personaldemocracy.com
12th European Conference on eGovernment (ECEG 2012)
June 14–15
Barcelona (Spain)
25th Bled eConference
June 17–20, 2012
Bled (Slovenia)
Website: http://www.bledconference.org
International Open Government Data Conference
July 10-12
World Bank, DC
Website: http://www.data.gov/communities/conference
The Democracy Imperative (TDI) National Conference
July 18–21, 2012
Boston, MA
Website: http://unh.edu/democracy/
Frontiers of Democracy
July 19–21
Boston, MA
Website: http://activecitizen.tufts.edu/?pid=1096
IADIS International Conference: e-Democracy, Equity and Social Justice
July 21–23
Lisbon, Portugal
Website: http://www.edemocracy-conf.org
International Conference on Electronic Democracy
September 3–7
Vienna, Austria
Website: http://www.dexa.org/egovis2012
League of California Cities Annual Conference & Expo
September 5–7
San Diego, CA
Website: http://www.cacities.org/AC
Web of Change (WOC)
September 5–9
Cortes Island, BC, Canada
Website: http://webofchange.com/web-of-change-hollyhock
2012 NAGW National Conference
September 12–14
Kansas City, MO
Website: http://nagw.org/national-conference
67th Annual National Conference on Citizenship
September 14
Philadelphia, PA
Website: http://ncoc.net/conference
Fedtalks
October 11
Washington, DC
Website: http://fedscoop.com/events/fedtalks2012/
6th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance
October 22-25
Albany, New York, U.S.
Website: http://www.icegov.org/
Gov 2.0 AU
October 23-24
Website: http://www.gov2.com.au/
Involve 2012
November 13-14
Nottingham, United Kingdom
Website: http://www.profbriefings.co.uk/involve2012/
Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy
November 14–16, 2012 (tentative)
Montevideo, Uruguay
Website: http://www.2012globalforum.com
E Pluribus Unum 
You also forgot the upcoming TechCamps in Tel Aviv, Ramallah, and Lima
http://wiki.techcampglobal.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
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Any chance we could make this a shared Google Calendar we can all subscribe to and submit events to? I think that’d be a pretty awesome resource.
Hi Chris,
Alex asked me about doing something more with this here at GovFresh. I’m always concerned about bandwidth and maintaining, but have some ideas. Stay tuned.
Luke
Awesome, feel free to let me know if there’s anything Socrata can do to help. We’ve got some of our customers managing shared catalogs through the platform now, so that might be a possibility too.
@Chris I don’t see why not. Have you built such a calendar before?
Here is another one http://www.unpan.org/ogdce