Rialtas.net – Government 2.0

Interesting article by FRANK DILLON in this weeks Irish Times Innovation Magazine.
The role of the citizen in creating a new Ireland is an important one. What foundations, skills and moral attributes should the perfect citizen have?…
…Perhaps its time to look at what was once viewed as the old-fashioned notion of citizenship. What is the perfect [...]

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http://www.malmo09.org/
The first popular European e-government conference takes place in Malmö, Sweden 19-20 November 2009. It coincides with the 5th official EU e-gov event in the same city. The popular Malmo09 event aims to offer a memorable creative statement of what Europeans really want from e-enabled government.
Anyone interested is welcome to apply to speak, participate contribute [...]

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gordon brown on global society, and how technology enables a global community to fundamentally change the world..discusses how in future foreign policy
should not be dictated by political elites, but instead should be run by listening to the public opinions of people who are blogging and using other
online technologies to communicate across the world..
he discusses combining [...]

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Government 2010 will examine how next generation government is set to change in the light of social, media and technology change. The conference is a video streamed conference,which  will be broadcast live on the web from London.
Keynote speakers include Peter Kellner (YouGov); Adam Afriyie MP (Shadow Minister, Innovation); Iain Dale (Political Blogger and Broadcaster); Tom [...]

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Post by Tod Newcombe on Dr. Beth Noveck’s speech at the recent NASCIO conference on what the White House is doing to turn social networking tools into an outcome-oriented platform for the Obama administration.
Noveck is the deputy director for Open Government within the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House. Her efforts [...]

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Launched on May 21st, Data.gov is an online platform for access to Federal Government Data. By helping the public find, access, and download non-sensitive Executive Branch data, Data.gov enables enterprising Americans to create new web applications that can help individuals, communities, and businesses access, sort, visualize and understand public data in new ways.

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From David Peterson on Sitepoint.com
In a revolutionary move, Obama’s administration is set to utilise next generation web technologies to bring an unprecedented level of transparency to government. In this case it will shed light on how the roughly US $800 billion dollar economic stimulus will be spent. The recently launched recovery.gov website (powered by nothing [...]

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Brian Cowen is the current Taoiseach of Ireland (pronounced tea-shock – this is the position of head of government)

Cowen addresses the nation in a series of new videos , addressing seven questions posed by members of the public (selected from several thousand submissions).
The videos are embedded in the government’s party website www.fiannafail.ie  and are embedded [...]

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AMAS   consultant and Managing Director Aileen O’Toole recently launched a new incentive on the web in Ireland entitled ‘The Ideas Campaign’

From the website:
The Ideas Campaign is about asking people for ideas to stimulate economic activity. It is challenging people in Ireland to be innovative and creative and to play their part in planning this country’s [...]

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Interesting article by Mike Elgan (Earthweb) on an effort by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members to “assert supremacy over online public opinion, raise the level and study the art of online guidance and actively use new technologies to increase the strength of positive propaganda”.
The article also introduced me to the concept of astroturfing which I [...]

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