Rialtas.net – Government 2.0

http://lap.kilkennycoco.ie/ At Kilkenny County Council we have just launched a consultative website for the forward planning department. The new website allows members of the public to comment on and to make submissions to the Local Area Plan. These comments and submissions are considered by the Council in the formulation of the Local Area Plans. We [...]

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Brian Cowen is the current Taoiseach of Ireland (pronounced tea-shock – this is the position of head of government) Cowen addresses the nation in a series of new videos , addressing seven questions posed by members of the public (selected from several thousand submissions). The videos are embedded in the government’s party website www.fiannafail.ie  and [...]

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Article by Andrew Hendry  on Computerworld.au The federal government has released the report of the Review of the National Innovation System  Venturous Australia, which details recommendations for remodeling the nation’s innovation system. Among 72 key recommendations was a call for an advisory committee of Web 2.0 practitioners to be established to propose and help steer [...]

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Kilkenny County Council has just released a new Wiki on which it invites collaboration with members of the public on the development of Local Area Plans for townlands in Kilkenny. (I am an IS project manager for Kilkenny County Council and this wiki is one of my current projects.) We believe that this project represents [...]

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Apologies for the hiatus, I have been completing my  MSC dissertation (on Web 2.0 and Knowledge Management) but I’m back on the air..   I see the UK Civil Service have published some ‘Principles for online Participation’   Here also is a common craft video explaining Social Media in plain english.. its very good… (thanks [...]

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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 [...]

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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 the use [...]

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I was hoping to have had a chance to finish reading this report before I posted it but decided to post it now in case anyone find it useful. It a report commissioned by the Australian QLD government entitled, ‘Legal Aspects of Web 2.0 Activities: Management of Legal Risk Associated with Use of YouTube, MySpace [...]

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Just thought I would draw attention to New Zealand’s E-Government Website http://www.e.govt.nz/ The site is a resource for government agency people in New Zealand who need up-to-date, easily accessible and authoritative e-government information & resources to assist them to achieve their agency’s e-government goals. The e-government goals: By 2007, information and communication technologies will be [...]

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A report carried out by sustainability consultancy Best Foot Forward shows that online council services in the UK can contribute to big cuts in CO2 emissions. People who use the internet to contact their local authority, instead of writing or driving to council offices, could help save the equivalent of millions of air miles in [...]

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