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Al Gore addresses Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco - November 7, 2008

November 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Canada, Government 2.0, Government Policy, USA, Video, Web 2.0, e-Democracy

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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Mark Elliott talks with Howard Rheingold about the Melbourne Planning Wiki

October 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Australia, Government 2.0, Ireland, Video, WIKIS, e-Democracy

Mark Elliott whose company http://collabforge.com consulted for and built the http://futuremelbourne.com.au planning wiki  in Melbourne was recently interviewed by Howard Rheingold. During the interview Mark speaks about the benefits of using a wiki for Civic Planning in general and of the experience of running the Melbourne wiki project.

See also an earlier post on Mark’s PhD Disseration on  Stigmergic Collaboration
http://www.rialtas.net/blog/2008/02/21/stigmergic-collaboration/#more-63
See also
http://www.rialtas.net/blog/2008/07/31/kilkenny-county-council-planning-wiki-first-use-of-a-wiki-by-a-government-organisation-in-ireland-as-part-of-a-public-consultative-process/#more-106
 

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Seminar - Citizen Participation in the Wiki and Facebook Era -update

October 24th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Collaboration, Event, Government 2.0, Government as Platform, Intranet, Ireland, Knowledge Management, Local Government, Mashups, Net-Gen, Open Source, Resources, Tourism, Web 2.0, e-Democracy, e-government, eInclusion/Digital Divide, transparency

I have just returned from attending (and speaking at) the ‘Seminar - Citizen Participation in the Wiki and Facebook Era ‘ at the IPA in Dublin. An interesting and worthwhile day..
All of the presentations were very interesting and will all be online shortly. I will update you on their availability and provide a full report […]

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Seminar - Citizen Participation in the Wiki and Facebook Era (How new Internet technologies are changing public service delivery)

October 12th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Event, Government 2.0, Government as Platform, Ireland, Society, Trust, WIKIS, e-Democracy, e-government, transparency

The IPA (Institute of Public Administration- Ireland)
Is running a one day seminar in Dublin on 24th October.
The Speakers are David Osimo, Dr Paul Hodgkin, Dr James Munro, Derek Chambers ,Kieran Lenihan and myself.
Further details and the agenda are listed below.
This seminar seeks to:
• Give participants a clearer understanding of the Web 2.0 concept and its […]

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Government 2.0 and Beyond…Harnessing Collective Intelligence

September 19th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Collaboration, Event, Government 2.0, Government Policy, Government as Platform, Knowledge Management, Local Government, Net-Gen, Politics, Security, Society, Trust, USA, Video, Virtual Worlds, Web 2.0, e-Democracy, e-government, transparency

I Have just finished attending an excellent symposium  ‘Government 2.0 and Beyond…Harnessing Collective Intelligence’ which was hosted by the US Assistant Secretary of Defense (Networks and Information Integration) DOD Chief Information Officer and the Information Resources Management College, US National Defense University.
Government 2.0 Symposium in the IRM Government Center in Second Life

The Panelists were
• David […]

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