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An American website which brings together official government data with news and blog coverage to give you the real story behind each bill.
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OpenCongress brings together official government information with news and blog coverage to give you the real story behind what’s happening in Congress.
For most people, finding out what’s really happening in Congress […]

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Here is the foreword and a link to one of the Governments key strategy documents, Towards 2016.
Foreword
I acknowledge the amount of time and effort that has gone into the making of this agreement. This reflects both the importance of the issues under discussion and the central importance attached by all sides to maintaining our system […]

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Edge- The third culture consists of those scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who, through their work and expository writing, are taking the place of the traditional intellectual in rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives, redefining who and what we are.
The mandate of Edge Foundation is to promote inquiry into and […]

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Interesting article by Sanjay Dholakia on the US website “Talent Management”
Here is an excerpt

Web 2.0 tools, such as wikis, blogs, social networks like LinkedIn and MySpace, and RSS (really simple syndication) — which knits together content found on blogs and wikis and serves up the results in an easy-to-find format — can encourage employee communication […]

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Here is an article from today’s Irish Independent comparing Irish broadband speeds and cost with some of our European neighbours.
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An interesting article on government transparency Web 2.o technologies and the current US presidential race.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/web20/61156.html

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New research has indicated that tech-savvy government departments will begin to adopt Web 2.0 applications this year.
“‘Gov 2.0′ will replace ‘e-gov,’ as governments seek to gain additional value from citizen interaction and business transactions,” Teresa Bozzelli, chief operating officer and managing director of Government Insights, which produced the report, said in a statement. Government Insights […]

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Shane Ross blog entry and Sunday Independent Article 13/14thJan 2008
Senator Shane Ross writes in the Sunday Independent (13th January 2008) and on his blog of the desperate need to roll out cheaper and faster broadband across Ireland and of how in addition to this ‘e-government’ in Ireland is stillborn he also highlights that John Purcell […]

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I have been doing a lot of research recently around “Web 2.0″ technologies or the “Read-Write Web” and thought that some of what I had learned and some of the information I had come across might be useful, interesting or helpful to others. My main area of Interest is in helping to improve the online […]

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