Rialtas.net - Government 2.0

From Federaltimes.com article By Elise Castelli

 This Federal Times Article describes how the US EPA, in trying to better share information with the public, industry, the media and its own employees, took an ‘unusual’ tack: It set up a Web site and asked for ideas from those who rely on EPA’s data in their […]

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A recent CWD Corporation (US) Survey has found that over 40% of corporate IT decision makers across both government and corporate sectors have rolled out some Web 2.0 tools in their organisations,it also reveals that more than half of them may be hesitant to use such applications, with 31% worrying that Web 2.0 will be […]

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Here is an overview of some research into blogging undertaken in January 2008 by BIGresearch in the US.
What’s A Blogger?
Bloggers are younger and higher percentages are Hispanic & African American than the general population. A higher percentage of Democrats than of Republicans are blogging.
Now that Blogging might better be called a market segment rather than […]

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Article in Federal Computer Week By Michael Hardy  Published on April 14, 2008 http://www.fcw.com/online/news/152241-1.html
Cambridge, Maryland recently played host to a panel discussion involving the United States, the U.K., New Zealand and Canada (at the Interagency Resources Management Conference) , countries that it should be apparent from reading this blog, are all leading the way in […]

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Jeff Jarvis (BuzzMachine) is currently working on a book - WWGD? - What Would Google Do? in which he says he is reverse-engineering Google, taking the lessons and rules he finds in their singular success in the internet economy and applying them to other companies, industries, and institutions.
On his blog he sets out some of […]

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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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Very interesting article by Florence Olsen (FCW) on the District of Columbia’s adoption of Web 2.o technologies. I have excerpted some highlights here but please read the full article
Link to the original article
The District of Columbia’s 33-year-old chief technology officer, Vivek Kundra, wants to bring government procurement into the world of wikis and YouTube videos
The test case […]

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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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I came across a blog entry (in Federal Computer Week) in the US covering another example of a wiki being  used as part of a public consultative process. Officials from the US Environmental Protection Agency used a wiki to consult with citizens in Puget Sound. The ‘Puget Sound Information Challenge’ wiki was launched at a […]

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The Washington Post Reported yesterday on how recently, president Bush challenged Congress to cut the number and cost of earmarks by half. (Earmarks are controversial, set-asides, that members of Congress place into annual spending bills for favoured constituents.)
The Office of Management and Budget, has embraced Wikipedia as a model, hosting an online place where […]

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