Rialtas.net – Government 2.0

From a post by Todd Lucier ,Ontario , Canada.
Al Gore addressed the San Francisco audience at the Web 2.0 Summit with an urgent appeal to assign a purpose to Web 2.0 tools. His address focussed on three themes:
* the democracy crisis: television has removed the democratic view of truth, and interactive Web TV – (Current [...]

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I came across MuniGov 2.0  via an article by Matt Williams on Government Technology
Governments have proved willing to experiment with Second Life, a popular online 3-D community in which users create virtual worlds and interact with one another via computer-generated characters. For instance, Missouri recently announced it hired its first IT employee recruited directly [...]

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Excellent article posted on October 30th 2008, by Peter M. Shane at the Huffington Post ‘Voting for Democracy: The Obama Vision of Open Government and Public Engagement’
Some excerpts:
The stakes here are hard to overstate. Americans have within their grasp a host of communication tools that could sustain a robust democratic culture of sharing, creativity and [...]

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Excerpts from a post by By Doug Beizer on Federal Computer Week
Wikis, blogs and other Web 2.0 tools will be critical to improving communication and collaboration among Defense Department employees and warfighters, according to recent DOD statements.
DOD officials launched a wiki, called DOD Techipedia, on Oct. 1 as a way to improve collaboration among agency [...]

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Article by Frederic Lardinois on Read Write web yesterday on ‘Obama’s Social Media Advantage’
…overall blog mentions of Obama and McCain varied greatly during the last year (and we can’t say if those were positive or negative posts), close to 500 million blog postings mentioned him since the beginning of the conventions at the end of [...]

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