In February 2007, the Global Alliance organized “United Nations Meets Silicon Valley” in Santa Clara, California, which explored how the technology industry and business community in Silicon Valley can bolster development. Attended by prominent members of industry, academia, and the venture capital community alongside members of the Strategy Council of the […]
United Nations Meets Web 2.0 Seminar taking place this week in the UN HQ in New York.
March 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Economy, Government 2.0, United Nations, Web 2.0
Tags: Economy·Government 2.0·un·United Nations·Web 2.0
The Collaboration Gurus (Federal Computer weeek Article)
March 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Government 2.0, Government Policy, Government as Platform, Net-Gen, USA, Web 2.0, e-government
Very interesting article by Florence Olsen (FCW) on the District of Columbia’s adoption of Web 2.o technologies. I have excerpted some highlights here but please read the full article
Link to the original article
The District of Columbia’s 33-year-old chief technology officer, Vivek Kundra, wants to bring government procurement into the world of wikis and YouTube videos
The test case […]
Tags: e-government·Government 2.0·Government as Platform·Government Policy·Net-Gen·USA·Web 2.0
UK Academics argue the case for UK Government to open up mapping Data.
March 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Geographical Information Systems, Government 2.0, Government as Platform, Infrastructure, Ireland, Local Government, UK
From the Register:
Top boffins have given economic backing to a campaign to relax access restrictions on government-collected databases, such as the Ordnance Survey’s unrivalled stash of UK mapping information.
The Department for Business, Employment and Regulatory Reform (BERR, formerly DTI) released the analysis, commissioned from a team at the University of Cambridge, last week. It refutes […]
Tags: APIs·GIS·Government 2.0·Government as Platform·Infrastructure·Ireland·Local Government·UK