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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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.. [...]

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 From Mathew Lee (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — Her videos aren’t quite viral yet and she’s not tweeting, but Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is embracing new media, using the Web to promote the agency and her role as the nation’s top envoy. In less than three months, Clinton’s State Department has embarked on [...]

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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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From an Article By Evan Ratliff on Wired.com In November, not two weeks after winning the election and still two months from becoming commander in chief, Barack Obama brought the government into the 21st century. Or at least that was what we were told when he released his first Web video address as president-elect. The [...]

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Interesting article by Mike Elgan (Earthweb) on an effort by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members to “assert supremacy over online public opinion, raise the level and study the art of online guidance and actively use new technologies to increase the strength of positive propaganda”. The article also introduced me to the concept of astroturfing which [...]

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Excellent article posted on October 30th 2008, by Peter M. Shane at the Huffington Post ‘Voting for Democracy: The Obama Vision of Open Government and Public Engagement’ Some excerpts: The stakes here are hard to overstate. Americans have within their grasp a host of communication tools that could sustain a robust democratic culture of sharing, [...]

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Article by Frederic Lardinois on Read Write web yesterday on ‘Obama’s Social Media Advantage’ …overall blog mentions of Obama and McCain varied greatly during the last year (and we can’t say if those were positive or negative posts), close to 500 million blog postings mentioned him since the beginning of the conventions at the end [...]

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I Have just finished attending an excellent symposium  ‘Government 2.0 and Beyond…Harnessing Collective Intelligence’ which was hosted by the US Assistant Secretary of Defense (Networks and Information Integration) DOD Chief Information Officer and the Information Resources Management College, US National Defense University. Government 2.0 Symposium in the IRM Government Center in Second Life The Panelists [...]

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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.” [...]

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