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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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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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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AMAS   consultant and Managing Director Aileen O’Toole recently launched a new incentive on the web in Ireland entitled ‘The Ideas Campaign’ From the website: The Ideas Campaign is about asking people for ideas to stimulate economic activity. It is challenging people in Ireland to be innovative and creative and to play their part in planning [...]

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www.whitehouse.gov on 20th January 2009 Www.whitehouse.gov on 21st January 2009 and this is good news.. as you can see the new site includes a new Whitehouse Blog.. From Macon Phillips, the Director of New Media for the White House (writing on the Whitehouse Blog): A short time ago, Barack Obama was sworn in as the [...]

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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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