Rialtas.net - Government 2.0

From the Sunday Business Post 22nd June 2008
Responsibility for E-Government has moved from the Department of the Taoiseach to the Department of Finance.
From the Sunday Business Post:
Brian Lenihan, the Minister for Finance, will bring proposals to cabinet in the coming weeks aimed at modernising and improving e-government services in Ireland.
The Department of Finance assumed responsibility […]

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On 10th June the World Wide Web Consortium launched a new forum aimed at discovering how technology can best be used to improve both governance and citizen participation.

 
The group is open to governments, citizens, researchers, and any interested parties.

“Open Standards, and in particular Semantic Web Standards, can help lower the cost of government, […]

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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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The New Zealand Government have just released their Draft Digital Strategy 2.0 the consultation period runs from April 14 to May 12 2008 at www.digitalstrategy.govt.nz There is also a wiki at this site which invites public collaboration on the strategy. http://wiki.digitalstrategy.govt.nz

Here are some excerpts from the draft:
“In the few years since the 2005 Digital Strategy, […]

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I think that this might be the first government statement on eGovernment in Ireland in several years…..
Some Excerpts..
Developing an Inclusive Knowledge Society
Taking that “end-user” perspective as my starting point I see the main requirement of ‘quality’ as the degree to which technology meets the expectations the demands that people have.
The development of an inclusive Knowledge […]

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Very interesting article by Florence Olsen (FCW) on the District of Columbia’s adoption of Web 2.o technologies. I have excerpted some highlights here but please read the full article
Link to the original article
The District of Columbia’s 33-year-old chief technology officer, Vivek Kundra, wants to bring government procurement into the world of wikis and YouTube videos
The test case […]

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The Joint Committee on Broadcasting and Parliamentary Information has arranged Webcasting of Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann. Live and archive Webcasting may only be viewed in accordance with the Rules of Coverage.
The Webcast Windows Media Player service is available on the Internet, and on educational and research networks, provided in association with HEAnet. The IPTV […]

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‘EUtube’, the European Commission’s new channel on YouTube, was officially launched on 29 June 2007. By offering an additional way of communicating Europe to its citizens, EUtube indicates that some of the European Institutions are starting to keep pace with some of the newer developments on the web. EUtube is another example of […]

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Excerpt From the editorial of the New York Star Gazette 16th March 2008
The power of public access has moved from using persistence and shoe leather to your fingertips and computer mouse. The transition is a long way from complete, but online databases, record keeping and search capabilities have the potential to open government records — […]

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The survey focused on public awareness of the Data Protection Act (DPA) and sought to see if people knew its provisions. Individuals were also asked if they had used subject access requests under the DPA, or an internet or credit search to check data held about them, and, if they had, what their experience had […]

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