Kilkenny County Council has just released a new Wiki on which it invites collaboration with members of the public on the development of Local Area Plans for townlands in Kilkenny.
(I am an IS project manager for Kilkenny County Council and this wiki is one of my current projects.)
We believe that this project represents the first […]
Tags: Collaboration·e-government·Government 2.0·Government Publications·Ireland·Local Government·transparency·Web 2.0·WIKIS
A few months ago Google announced that they were testing a new product called Knol. Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects. Yesterday, they made Knol available to everyone.
The web contains vast amounts of information, but not everything worth knowing is on the web. An enormous amount […]
Tags: Collaboration·Knowledge Management·Web 2.0·WIKIS
Interesting article on the Memphis based site commercialappeal.com
Apparently the director of police is using public funds to attempt sue and identify an anonymous blogger believed to be a Memphis police officer (or several officers)
Memphis Police Director Larry Godwin and the city of Memphis have filed a lawsuit to learn who operates a blog harshly critical […]
Tags: Blog·Data Protection and Privacy·Government Policy·Legal Issues·USA·Web 2.0
The UK Government is inviting feedback from the public to help generate ideas and useful applications for public data. They hope this approach will help to improve the way public information is communicated.The Power of Information Taskforce is running a competition on the UK Government’s behalf, and they have a £20,000 prize fund to develop […]
Tags: Collaboration·Government 2.0·Government as Platform·Society·Statistics·transparency·UK·Web 2.0·Wisdom of Crowds
From Federaltimes.com article By Elise Castelli
This Federal Times Article describes how the US EPA, in trying to better share information with the public, industry, the media and its own employees, took an ‘unusual’ tack: It set up a Web site and asked for ideas from those who rely on EPA’s data in their […]
Tags: Government as Platform·Government Policy·USA·Web 2.0·WIKIS
Interesting article on RedOrbit by By Maryann Lawlor, discussing the adoption of Web 2.0 by businesses . Some excerpts below, read the full article here..
Common interests bring professionals together online, then lead them to corporate collaboration. Social networking and other Web 2.0 capabilities are creating new avenues for commerce by facilitating communication inside the corporate […]
Tags: Net-Gen·Virtual Worlds·Web 2.0