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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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We are now looking at Evan Miller’s Google Map Extension for Mediawiki as a solution for the mapping element of the public consultation project. Essentially we want visitors to be able to mark a point on a map and add a comment, this extension is pretty close to what we need, however at the moment […]

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We had our second meeting regarding our public consultation process and it is confirmed that we are planning to use MediaWiki as the basis for a public wiki seeking feedback from the public on a development plan. My demo wiki is up and running on our Intranet and staff will be invited to ‘explore’ and […]

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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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The Director of Public Prosecutions has published a discussion paper on the DPP website. He is asking the public to provide feedback on the current policy of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions not to give reasons either to victims or to the public generally when a decision is made not to […]

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The Wiki project is proceeding , I installed MediaWiki on an internal weberver today and found it straightforward to get configured and up and running. We are currently entering some test content before we ask for some input from our staff.
In addition to our public wiki ,we also intend to include an interactive mapping […]

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Got the go ahead today to implement a pubic wiki as part of a public consultative project. I made a presentation to the owners of the project using the New Zealand Police Act Public wiki project from last year as an example.. I am evaluating Mediawiki and Twiki as two possible wiki platforms..
More detail […]

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By: Heather Havenstein, Computerworld (U.S. online)(02-26-2007)
The U.S. Department of Defense’s lead intelligence agency is using wikis, blogs, RSS feeds and enterprise “mashups” to help its analysts collaborate better when sifting through data used to support military operations.
The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is seeing “mushrooming” use of these various Web 2.0 technologies that are becoming critical […]

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Late last year the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on held a hearing enlitled E-Government 2.0: Improving Innovation, Collaboration, and Access.
Invited to speak at the hearing were Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and the non profit charity the Wikimedia foundation, and John Lewis Needham, Manager of Public Sector Content […]

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I have been reviewing some of my research, undertaken over the past year or so, so please bear with me as I add both some current and some older material to the site.
On October 7th, 2006, Anthony Williams, co-author of the excellent ‘Wikinomics’ published an article on his blog entitled:
Is government ready for […]

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