Rialtas.net - Government 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 […]

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From Iain Thomson at Vnunet.com
A survey of 1,000 office staff has found that nearly a third of younger employees would consider quitting their job if Facebook was banned in the workplace.
The survey by IT services firm Telindus found that 39 per cent of 18 to 24 year-olds would consider leaving if they were not allowed […]

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Communities of Practice-Connecting people to learn and share.

The Communities of Practice for Local Government website supports professional networking across UK local government and the public sector. It is a freely accessible resource that enables knowledge development and sharing through online communities of practice.
Registered members can join communities, or create their own, connect with their peers […]

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Stigmergic Collaboration
I have just finished reading Mark Elliot’s PHD dissertation entitled “Stigmergic Collaboration- A Theoretical Framework for Mass Collaboration” and I found it to be inspiring and profound.
This is one of the most scientific and rigorous examinations of mass collaboration and social networking technologies and their interactions that I have come across, and I […]

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A new (free) report by the New Local Government Network in the UK arguing that e-petitions could become an effective tool in creating a constant dialogue between communities and their elected representatives, helping to maintain a conversation in between elections and engaging voters, particularly young people.
The paper identifies four key advantages for councils to […]

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I came across a blog entry (in Federal Computer Week) in the US covering another example of a wiki being  used as part of a public consultative process. Officials from the US Environmental Protection Agency used a wiki to consult with citizens in Puget Sound. The ‘Puget Sound Information Challenge’ wiki was launched at a […]

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Just thought I would draw attention to New Zealand’s E-Government Website
http://www.e.govt.nz/
The site is a resource for government agency people in New Zealand who need up-to-date, easily accessible and authoritative e-government information & resources to assist them to achieve their agency’s e-government goals.
The e-government goals:

By 2007, information and communication technologies will […]

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Speaking of the OECD Review of the Irish Civil Service ….
…reminded me of another OECD related resource… On October 2007, in Ottawa, Canada, the first international policy forum on the participative web brought together policy makers, academics, business executives and a wide range of civil society to address these questions:
What does […]

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Last year the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office opened an online forum where citizens could offer their views and opinions on what the government’s foreign policy priorities should be. Several hundred comments were received on the site.
The UK Parliament’s Procedure’s Committee is now hosting an online forum to gather the views of the public […]

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I have been reviewing some of my research, undertaken over the past year or so, so please bear with me as I add both some current and some older material to the site.
On October 7th, 2006, Anthony Williams, co-author of the excellent ‘Wikinomics’ published an article on his blog entitled:
Is government ready for […]

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