Rialtas.net – Government 2.0

Post by Jeffrey Roy, CIO Government Review on InterGovWorld.com
recounting how he recently attended a meeting of four graduate students and four executives from a provincial Crown corporation. The topic was e-government and how Web 2.0 can improve customer and employee engagement and thus improve performance. The discussion was lively…
Students left impressed with the executives’ knowledge [...]

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The Connected Rebublic is a community website, developed by Cisco’s Internet Business Solutions Group. The aim is to create a space where people with ideas can meet, share their thinking and link up with each other. The site is open to anyone who wants to get involved.

There are a number of very interesting presentations on [...]

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Here is an overview of some research into blogging undertaken in January 2008 by BIGresearch in the US.
What’s A Blogger?
Bloggers are younger and higher percentages are Hispanic & African American than the general population. A higher percentage of Democrats than of Republicans are blogging.
Now that Blogging might better be called a market segment rather than [...]

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This from Micah L. Sifry of Techpresident blogging from the Politics Web 2.0 conference at the University of London, Royal Hollaway, here below are some excerpts from Micah’s notes on one of the first keynotes:
Helen Margetts, of the Oxford Internet Institute, is presenting on “Digital-era Governance: Peer production, Co-creation and the Future of Government.”
Her key [...]

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Helen Milner highlights the importance of digital inclusion as she discusses a recent report from the UK Online Centres which found that £2.6 billion can be saved by the British Economy if they could bridge the digital divide.
What price happiness? The question is of course rhetorical. How can you put a price on [...]

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The National Assembly for Wales launched its enhanced e-democracy services on Tuesday April 15th.
Services, including a new e-petitioning system, senedd.tv, an improved webcasting service, e-forums and a “quick vote” facility for online consultations for committee inquiries such as the current inquiry into Presumed Consent for Organ Donation were launched by Peter Black AM, Commissioner for [...]

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Article in Federal Computer Week By Michael Hardy  Published on April 14, 2008 http://www.fcw.com/online/news/152241-1.html
Cambridge, Maryland recently played host to a panel discussion involving the United States, the U.K., New Zealand and Canada (at the Interagency Resources Management Conference) , countries that it should be apparent from reading this blog, are all leading the way in [...]

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The New Zealand Government have just released their Draft Digital Strategy 2.0 the consultation period runs from April 14 to May 12 2008 at www.digitalstrategy.govt.nz There is also a wiki at this site which invites public collaboration on the strategy. http://wiki.digitalstrategy.govt.nz

Here are some excerpts from the draft:
“In the few years since the 2005 Digital Strategy, [...]

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The Global Information Technology Report is the world’s most respected assessment of the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on the development process and the competitiveness across the planet. This year, after covering 127 economies across Earth, Denmark came out on top.
The report notes the importance and benefits of strong government leadership and [...]

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Harry McGee Reports in the Irish Times today that John Gormley, the Minister for the Environment, last night unveiled some of the key components of the Green Party Paper on local government which will be published in 10 days’ time.
Speaking at the opening of the Green Party’s annual convention in Dundalk, Co Louth, Mr Gormley [...]

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