http://www.rialtas.net/blog/2008/01/14/welcome-to-rialtasnet/ Web 2.0 to Government 2.0 in Ireland --- e-Government and e-Democracy Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:38:52 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.rialtas.net/blog/2008/01/14/welcome-to-rialtasnet/comment-page-1/#comment-4 W. David Stephenson Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:59:07 +0000 http://www.rialtas.net/blog/?p=3#comment-4 Just found your blog, and look forward to reading it. I thought you and your readers would be interested in a speech http://tinyurl.com/ypnoma I gave in November on what I called "transparent government" (I think I prefer Jon Udell's term, "public data," but really haven't found anything yet that describes it perfectly) -- the concept of government agencies releasing data bases on a <i>real-time</i> basis and encouraging the public to use Google mashups and a variety of other data visualization techniques to improve the quality of public policy debate (by increasing the chance it will be fact-based), analyzing program delivery, and finding possible causality, etc. Just found your blog, and look forward to reading it. I thought you and your readers would be interested in a speech http://tinyurl.com/ypnoma I gave in November on what I called “transparent government” (I think I prefer Jon Udell’s term, “public data,” but really haven’t found anything yet that describes it perfectly) — the concept of government agencies releasing data bases on a real-time basis and encouraging the public to use Google mashups and a variety of other data visualization techniques to improve the quality of public policy debate (by increasing the chance it will be fact-based), analyzing program delivery, and finding possible causality, etc.

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