Rialtas.net - Government 2.0

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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Some interesting speculation on ‘Politics 2.0′ from Mike Farmer  On the Bonzai Real Estate Blog…
Imagine thousands of citizens vying for elected positions using blogs, social networks, websites that reveal all their qualifications, vetted by connected users across the country interacting with the candidates on a daily basis. It would be beautiful chaos, democracy in action, […]

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The Joint Committee on Broadcasting and Parliamentary Information has arranged Webcasting of Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann. Live and archive Webcasting may only be viewed in accordance with the Rules of Coverage.
The Webcast Windows Media Player service is available on the Internet, and on educational and research networks, provided in association with HEAnet. The IPTV […]

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Excerpt From the editorial of the New York Star Gazette 16th March 2008
The power of public access has moved from using persistence and shoe leather to your fingertips and computer mouse. The transition is a long way from complete, but online databases, record keeping and search capabilities have the potential to open government records — […]

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Photo By Jrawle from Flickr.
Interesting Series of blog entries and comments debating as to whether Civil Servant Bloggers in the UK should be governed by a set of blogging guidelines or whether adherence to the UK civil service code should be sufficient. This was all prompted by the recent posts of an anonymous blogger […]

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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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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 […]

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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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I was just browsing over the Information Society Publications on the Department of the Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) website and saw that there hasn’t been any new publication since I last visited (none since January 2005 in fact)

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Here also is the current state of the OECD review of the irish public service, linked from the […]

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Last year the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office opened an online forum where citizens could offer their views and opinions on what the government’s foreign policy priorities should be. Several hundred comments were received on the site.
The UK Parliament’s Procedure’s Committee is now hosting an online forum to gather the views of the public […]

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