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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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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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Post by Jeffrey Roy, CIO Government Review on InterGovWorld.com
recounting how he recently attended a meeting of four graduate students and four executives from a provincial Crown corporation. The topic was e-government and how Web 2.0 can improve customer and employee engagement and thus improve performance. The discussion was lively…
Students left impressed with the executives’ knowledge […]

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The Connected Rebublic is a community website, developed by Cisco’s Internet Business Solutions Group. The aim is to create a space where people with ideas can meet, share their thinking and link up with each other. The site is open to anyone who wants to get involved.

There are a number of very interesting presentations on […]

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This from Micah L. Sifry of Techpresident blogging from the Politics Web 2.0 conference at the University of London, Royal Hollaway, here below are some excerpts from Micah’s notes on one of the first keynotes:
Helen Margetts, of the Oxford Internet Institute, is presenting on “Digital-era Governance: Peer production, Co-creation and the Future of Government.”
Her key […]

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The National Assembly for Wales launched its enhanced e-democracy services on Tuesday April 15th.
Services, including a new e-petitioning system, senedd.tv, an improved webcasting service, e-forums and a “quick vote” facility for online consultations for committee inquiries such as the current inquiry into Presumed Consent for Organ Donation were launched by Peter Black AM, Commissioner for […]

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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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Harry McGee Reports in the Irish Times today that John Gormley, the Minister for the Environment, last night unveiled some of the key components of the Green Party Paper on local government which will be published in 10 days’ time.
Speaking at the opening of the Green Party’s annual convention in Dundalk, Co Louth, Mr Gormley […]

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Jeff Jarvis (BuzzMachine) is currently working on a book - WWGD? - What Would Google Do? in which he says he is reverse-engineering Google, taking the lessons and rules he finds in their singular success in the internet economy and applying them to other companies, industries, and institutions.
On his blog he sets out some of […]

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