Rialtas.net – Government 2.0

excerpt from an article in today’s Irish times  by Hugh Linehan  Online Editor of The Irish Times. The most interesting battles are being fought, not over constitutional structures, but around the freedom to access and disseminate information. From BlackBerries in the Gulf to search engines in China, authoritarian regimes understand that the free flow of [...]

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From the NYtimes.com Talking about government and computer programming most likely doesn’t evoke the feeling of “fun” for most Americans. But a group of Web geeks and technology leaders is trying to change that with a new nonprofit project, Code for America, which aims to import the efficiency of the Web into government infrastructures. The group, [...]

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The guidance makes it easier for agencies to use social media and requires steps to ensure better rule-making and spending transparency. By J. Nicholas Hoover InformationWeek April 7, 2010 01:33 PM Even as federal agencies release their plans for complying with the Obama administration’s open government requirements, the administration announced additional open government guidance Wednesday. [...]

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Code for America is anew website aiming to help city governments become more transparent, connected and efficient by connecting the talents of cutting-edge web developers with people who deliver city services and want to embrace the transformative power of the web to achieve more impact with less money.   Inspired in part by Teach for [...]

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From OpenSource.com What problems can we solve? How would it affect the way we learn? Work? Run our governments? We want to shine a light on the places where the open source way is multiplying ideas and effort, even beyond technology. We believe that opensource.com will be a gathering place for many of the open [...]

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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 [...]

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Accenture, has just published a report, From e-Government to e-Governance, recommending ways in which Goverment might enahnce its services to the public. A key recommendation in the report is for public sector organisations not to build everything from scratch themselves, but to capitalise on the popularity of outside websites, including ones set up for social [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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