Rialtas.net - Government 2.0

The UK Government (Ministry of Justice) has recently released a new initiative

http://www.buildingdemocracy.co.uk/
Building Democracy is a government initiative to support new and different means for people to address public issues.
It is funded by the Ministry of Justice through the Democratic Engagement Innovation Fund.
They want more people to participate in UK democracy, and want the public to […]

[Read more →]

I came across this excellent short talk by Clay Shirky author of  “Here comes everybody“, speaking at the Web 2.0 Expo (22-25 April 2008) about what he terms  ‘the cognitive surplus’ that television (in his opinion mostly sit-coms) has been masking for the past 60 years.

Here is an excerpt:
“I was recently reminded of some reading […]

[Read more →]