Rialtas.net – Government 2.0

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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The EU Competition Commissioner, Neelie Kroes, publicly supported the use of open source software in eGovernment, in a public speech at a seminar hosted by OpenForum Europe in Brussels on 10 June 2008.
The Commission must do its part. It must not rely on one vendor, it must not accept closed standards, and it must refuse [...]

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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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The overall goal of the EU Funded OKKAM initiative at the University of Trento is to enable the Web of Entities, a global digital space for publishing and managing information about entities, where every entity is uniquely identified, and links between entities can be explicitly specified and exploited in a variety of scenarios. Compared to [...]

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The UN E-Government Survey 2008: From E-Government to Connected Governance assesses the e-government readiness of the 192 Member States of the UN according to a quantitative composite index of e-readiness based on website assessment, telecommunication infrastructure, and human resource endowment. ICTs can help reinvent government in such a way that existing institutional arrangements can be [...]

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European eGovernment Services Conference: IDABC and beyond
Halfway into the IDABC programme, the European Commission has decided to organise, together with the Slovenian Presidency of the European Union, a mid-term IDABC conference, European eGovernment Services Conference: IDABC and beyond, on 12 and 13 February 2008 in Brdo, Slovenia.
The mid-term IDABC conference is a part of the [...]

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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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SEMIC.EU (Semantic Interoperability Centre Europe) is a EU-Project to support the data exchange for pan-European eGovernment services. It aims to create a repository for interoperability assets that can be used by eGovernment projects and their stakeholders. Semic are currently gathering ideas and requirements for building the interoperability repository. Your can [...]

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Here is an article from today’s Irish Independent comparing Irish broadband speeds and cost with some of our European neighbours.
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