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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From an article by Peter Nowak from CBC News Canada.
Quebec’s open-source software association is suing the provincial government, saying it is giving preferential treatment to Microsoft Corp. by buying the company’s products rather than using free alternatives.
The lawsuit by Facil was lodged with the Quebec Superior Court on July 15 and made public on Wednesday. [...]

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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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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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Don Tapscott (one of the authors of Wikinomics) was invited by the Davos management to organise an impromptu meeting of business and government leaders and some leading academics and thinkers on the topic of rethinking democracy. The topic he chose was government 2.0 – how the new Web 2.0 might lead to new models of [...]

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From Intergovworld.com
Governments have been taking tentative steps towards establishing a presence in the virtual world. And while the business case may yet to be proven, there is potential for the public sector to utilize virtual applications such as Second Life, says analyst Alison Brooks.
Second Life is the increasingly popular online universe created entirely by [...]

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Interesting article on Canada’s InterGovWorld.com website on Ontario’s banning of Facebook and YouTube from Government networks.
The Canadian government is scrambling to deal with social networking and other Web 2.0 technologies that are spreading like wildfire across the nation, particularly amongst young users. Some say social media can revolutionize government communications, while others say they are [...]

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Yesterday I Came across this Interview By Mari-Len De Guzman, editor, CIO Government Review with Ken Cochrane, CIO , Government of Canada
Social networking tools, like wikis and blogs, will have a place in what the CIO of the Government of Canada is calling a paradigm shift towards a Government 2.0 workplace. It’s all about [...]

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