Rialtas.net – Government 2.0

HM Treasury Consultative website receives over 31,000 Ideas the spending challenge website offers a chance to the UK public to help to shape the way their government works. The best ideas will be considered as part of the Spending Review 2010, which will be concluded on October 20th 2010. Visit website.

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Accenture, has just published a report, From e-Government to e-Governance, recommending ways in which Goverment might enahnce its services to the public. A key recommendation in the report is for public sector organisations not to build everything from scratch themselves, but to capitalise on the popularity of outside websites, including ones set up for social [...]

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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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The findings of a survey by document management software company, Version One (www.versionone.co.uk), has revealed that 41% of senior IT professionals admit that they “don’t know” what cloud computing is. Version One carried out the research with 60 senior IT professionals (IT directors and managers) across a range of UK public and private sector organisations. [...]

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Via Publictechnology.net According to a recent Ofcom survey Only 55 per cent of UK citizens has used a government or council website Just half of the UK population has used the internet in the last year to access information about government or local council services or completed a government form or process online, according to [...]

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A new report launched last week by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) finds that HR is failing to take advantage of many opportunities presented by Web 2.0 technology. (onrec.com) Web 2.0 and Human Resource Management: ‘Groundswell’ or hype?, which aims to inform on the latest thinking as well as outline good practice [...]

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The UK Government is currently advertising for a new position to lead “digital engagement” with the public. (via Macworld) The position advertised offers the prospect of earning between £81,600 and £160,000 per year and reports directly to the minister for digital engagement, Tom Watson, and the permanent secretary for government communications, Matt Tee. The right [...]

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Tom Steinberg (MySociety) was interviewed by Michael Cross for the Guardian Newspaper, the article was published on 23rd October 2008. Fixmystreet already enables anyone with a browser to report potholes, fly-tipping and other nuisances without needing to know which public authority is responsible for them. All you have to do is click on a map [...]

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Came across this text ‘Network Citizens: Power and Responsibility at Work‘ via Paul Glazowski at Mashable.com Here is an excerpt from the foreword by Robert Ainger, Corporate Director, Orange Business One of the key findings within this research is the tension that distinctions between purely personal and professional life are becoming increasingly blurred and that [...]

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A free seminar organised by the Hansard Society to discuss eDemocracy in Scotland. Speakers will be Dr Laura Miller (Senior Researcher, eDemocracy Programme, Hansard Society), Navraj Singh Ghaleigh (Lecturer in Public Law, University of Edinburgh), Aileen Campbell MSP (Scottish National Party MSP for South of Scotland), Fergus Cochrane (Clerk to the Public Petitions Committee, Scottish [...]

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