Rialtas.net – Government 2.0

mashup* events have a couple of 10 minute top quality speakers, followed by an hour long panel and audience debate – followed by drinks.
On average over 200 professionals and entrepreneurs attend from the following disciplines: Internet, web2.0, mobile, telcoms, IT, media, broadcast, advertising, agency, PR, legal, regulatory, accounting, venture, banking, private equity, design and consulting. [...]

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Very Interesting Article by Dion Hinchcliffe on SocialComputingmagazine.com entitled ‘Ten Aspects of Web 2.0 Strategy That Every CTO and CIO Should Know’
…the power of the network has deep roots in some profound shifts in society and culture, particularly the singular move from push-based systems (the 1.0 era going way, way back until right around now) [...]

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Article by Andrew Hendry  on Computerworld.au
The federal government has released the report of the Review of the National Innovation System  Venturous Australia, which details recommendations for remodeling the nation’s innovation system.

Among 72 key recommendations was a call for an advisory committee of Web 2.0 practitioners to be established to propose and help steer governments as [...]

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Co-hosted by CDC’s National Center for Health Marketing, Division of eHealth Marketing and WestEd. This online discussion will focus on Social Networks, Blogs, and other Web 2.0 applications and their uses in health marketing and public health. Participants will share examples of how they have used these applications and hear from others about ways of [...]

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ScotWeb2.0 is an unconference being held at Edinburgh University on 31st October 2008.

Confirmed speakers include Simon Dickson, Ross Ferguson, Iain Henderson and Stewart Kirkpatrick.
The seminar is hosted by Edinburgh University, and is supported by BT and is targeted at all those interested in learning about Web 2.0, from practitioners,to government and business users.
An informal, bar [...]

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Article by Alexandra Rampy on Read Write Web asking’To 2.0 or Not 2.0? That is The Government’s Question’
Rampy answers the question providing the answer,  three answers actually:
Listen, learn, and let go…If you are within government or outside of government, here are three helpful strategies to be the social media maven for your agency: Listen. Learn. [...]

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Interesting Aricle by Nick Heath on Silicon.com on some UK Public Sector Organisations Rejection of Web 2.0 Technologies
Blinkered public sector thinking that blames sites such as Facebook for office time wasting is stunting the take up of web 2.0 in government, according to an association for IT professionals.
“Laggards” in local government are doggedly resisting user [...]

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I have just read an excellent Edge essay, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb who continues his examination of Black Swans, the highly improbable and unpredictable events that have massive impact. Taleb claims that those who are putting society at risk are “no true statisticians”, merely people using statistics either without understanding them, or in a self-serving [...]

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