Richard Boly, director of the U.S. Department of State Office of eDiplomacy, is kicking off Policy Making in the Digital Age with a discussion of the State Department’s use of the Internet:

Embracing openness and collaboration behind the government firewall is necessary first to achieve transparency with the public. The U.S. State Department, the oldest federal agency and steeped in Cold War secrecy, might appear an unlikely early adopter of internal Web 2.0 tools. Find out how the culture is changing from need-to-know to need-to-share.