Rialtas.net – Government 2.0

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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Interesting article by FRANK DILLON in this weeks Irish Times Innovation Magazine.
The role of the citizen in creating a new Ireland is an important one. What foundations, skills and moral attributes should the perfect citizen have?…
…Perhaps its time to look at what was once viewed as the old-fashioned notion of citizenship. What is the perfect [...]

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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 networking [...]

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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 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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I have just returned from attending (and speaking at) the ‘Seminar – Citizen Participation in the Wiki and Facebook Era ‘ at the IPA in Dublin. An interesting and worthwhile day..
All of the presentations were very interesting and will all be online shortly. I will update you on their availability and provide a full report [...]

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The IPA (Institute of Public Administration- Ireland)
Is running a one day seminar in Dublin on 24th October.
The Speakers are David Osimo, Dr Paul Hodgkin, Dr James Munro, Derek Chambers ,Kieran Lenihan and myself.
Further details and the agenda are listed below.
This seminar seeks to:
• Give participants a clearer understanding of the Web 2.0 concept and its [...]

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I Have just finished attending an excellent symposium  ‘Government 2.0 and Beyond…Harnessing Collective Intelligence’ which was hosted by the US Assistant Secretary of Defense (Networks and Information Integration) DOD Chief Information Officer and the Information Resources Management College, US National Defense University.
Government 2.0 Symposium in the IRM Government Center in Second Life

The Panelists were
• David [...]

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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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