Rialtas.net – Government 2.0

excerpt from an article in today’s Irish times  by Hugh Linehan  Online Editor of The Irish Times. The most interesting battles are being fought, not over constitutional structures, but around the freedom to access and disseminate information. From BlackBerries in the Gulf to search engines in China, authoritarian regimes understand that the free flow of [...]

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Excerpt from Article BY AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY Asiaone Tech Sense EMERGING technologies such as Web 2.0 and cloud computing, plus new ways of transacting and accessing information through new media, have bolstered the importance of online security for public sector institutions. The public sector typically holds the personal data of its citizens, as well as [...]

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The guidance makes it easier for agencies to use social media and requires steps to ensure better rule-making and spending transparency. By J. Nicholas Hoover InformationWeek April 7, 2010 01:33 PM Even as federal agencies release their plans for complying with the Obama administration’s open government requirements, the administration announced additional open government guidance Wednesday. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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The 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China on Oct. 1 took on symbolic importance not only for the Communist Party, but also for connoisseurs of China’s Internet controls. The thinking by some was that with the last of a series of sensitive anniversaries this year now finally behind us, the guardians of China’s [...]

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gordon brown on global society, and how technology enables a global community to fundamentally change the world..discusses how in future foreign policy should not be dictated by political elites, but instead should be run by listening to the public opinions of people who are blogging and using other online technologies to communicate across the world.. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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