Rialtas.net – Government 2.0

gordon brown on global society, and how technology enables a global community to fundamentally change the world..discusses how in future foreign policy
should not be dictated by political elites, but instead should be run by listening to the public opinions of people who are blogging and using other
online technologies to communicate across the world..
he discusses combining [...]

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I have seen a recent resurgance in the blogosphere of awareness of and debate around Levine, Locke, Searls & Weinberger’s ‘Cluetrain Manifesto’, a seminal book (published in 1999) outlining 95 Theses on the newly connected marketplace, enabled by the Internet.  Having re-read the book again recently it is clear that this Manifesto presaged the powerful emergence [...]

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I Just came across this document on the Data Protection Commissioners website. Its a projected vision of public surveillance in the near future, a dsytopian one as far as individual privacy is concerned. Thought provoking and worth a read.
A Report on the Surveillance SocietyFor the Information Commissioner, by the Surveillance Studies Network
Public Discussion [...]

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Video of Tara Hunt Presenting her talk on Government 2.0 “Architecting for Collaboration” (May 26th 2007) to some New Zealand Government officials and staff at GOVIS and here also are the accompanying slides (hosted on slideshare.net). Its an excellent and inspiring presentation on Government as a platform, discussing 2.0 technologies and their role in enabling [...]

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Edge- The third culture consists of those scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who, through their work and expository writing, are taking the place of the traditional intellectual in rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives, redefining who and what we are.
The mandate of Edge Foundation is to promote inquiry into and [...]

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