Rialtas.net – Government 2.0

By Doug Beizer
This is an article from March last year (published while I was out of commission for a few months) but outlines an interesting precedent for governments internationally.
By Doug Beizer on FCW.com
The General Services Administration has signed agreements with Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo and blip.tv that make it possible for federal agencies to use new-media tools while [...]

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Code for America is anew website aiming to help city governments become more transparent, connected and efficient by connecting the talents of cutting-edge web developers with people who deliver city services and want to embrace the transformative power of the web to achieve more impact with less money.   Inspired in part by Teach for [...]

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By Matthew Weigelt on FCW.com
As the president of the United States last week addressed Congress about the state of the union, he’s going before the public Feb. 3 to answer their questions about the state of the country via YouTube.
President Barack Obama will use the Web to offer the public a direct and participatory way [...]

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Post by Tod Newcombe on Dr. Beth Noveck’s speech at the recent NASCIO conference on what the White House is doing to turn social networking tools into an outcome-oriented platform for the Obama administration.
Noveck is the deputy director for Open Government within the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House. Her efforts [...]

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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 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 a digital [...]

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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 nothing [...]

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From an AFP article published yesterday
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Barack Obama outdueled Hillary Clinton on the Web during their battle for the Democratic presidential nomination.
But Secretary of State Clinton is giving President Obama a run for the money in the latest Web 2.0 sweepstakes.
The former first lady has taken to digital diplomacy with a vengeance, contributing [...]

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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 44th president of 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 clip, [...]

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