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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From OpenSource.com What problems can we solve? How would it affect the way we learn? Work? Run our governments? We want to shine a light on the places where the open source way is multiplying ideas and effort, even beyond technology. We believe that opensource.com will be a gathering place for many of the open [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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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Web 2.0 acts as accelerant in pending corporate Darwinian shake-out, says Palladium Group CEO- excerpts from a post by Dana Gardner on ZDNet.com on October 24th, 2008 Some excerpts from Dana’s post: The impact of Web 2.0 technologies on the current global economic downturn will hasten the demise of closed and siloed corporate cultures while [...]

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I have just read an excellent Edge essay, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb who continues his examination of Black Swans, the highly improbable and unpredictable events that have massive impact. Taleb claims that those who are putting society at risk are “no true statisticians”, merely people using statistics either without understanding them, or in a self-serving [...]

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The UK Government is inviting feedback from the public to help generate ideas and useful applications for public data. They hope this approach will help to improve the way public information is communicated.The Power of Information Taskforce is running a competition on the UK Government’s behalf, and they have a £20,000 prize fund to develop [...]

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Harry McGee Reports in the Irish Times today that John Gormley, the Minister for the Environment, last night unveiled some of the key components of the Green Party Paper on local government which will be published in 10 days’ time. Speaking at the opening of the Green Party’s annual convention in Dundalk, Co Louth, Mr [...]

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