Rialtas.net – Government 2.0

The findings of a survey by document management software company, Version One (www.versionone.co.uk), has revealed that 41% of senior IT professionals admit that they “don’t know” what cloud computing is. Version One carried out the research with 60 senior IT professionals (IT directors and managers) across a range of UK public and private sector organisations. [...]

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The Global Information Technology Report is the world’s most respected assessment of the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on the development process and the competitiveness across the planet. This year, after covering 127 economies across Earth, Denmark came out on top.
The report notes the importance and benefits of strong government leadership and [...]

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From the Register:
Top boffins have given economic backing to a campaign to relax access restrictions on government-collected databases, such as the Ordnance Survey’s unrivalled stash of UK mapping information.
The Department for Business, Employment and Regulatory Reform (BERR, formerly DTI) released the analysis, commissioned from a team at the University of Cambridge, last week. It refutes [...]

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A taste of things to come… a web based virtual PC with 3GB email storage, 3GB file storage and access to a variety of productivity apps including a word-processor and spreadsheet and all for FREE…

This is an early example of Cloud Computing, an entire web based operating system. I’d guess that within 10 years most [...]

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Raphael Phang, research director of Government Insights Asia/Pacific, a research and advisory firm predicts in the “Asia/Pacific Government 2008 Top 10 Predictions, January 2008″ Report:
In 2008, upcoming next-generation technologies, such as Web 2.0, virtualisation, mobile technologies and biometrics, will take centre stage.
Other top predictions presented and analysed in the study are:
• Infrastructure optimisation and IT [...]

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Just thought I would draw attention to New Zealand’s E-Government Website
http://www.e.govt.nz/
The site is a resource for government agency people in New Zealand who need up-to-date, easily accessible and authoritative e-government information & resources to assist them to achieve their agency’s e-government goals.
The e-government goals:

By 2007, information and communication technologies will [...]

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A report carried out by sustainability consultancy Best Foot Forward shows that online council services in the UK can contribute to big cuts in CO2 emissions.
People who use the internet to contact their local authority, instead of writing or driving to council offices, could help save the equivalent of millions of air miles in carbon [...]

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Since its establishment in 2003, Second Life has grown significantly and now has more than nine million registered users or “residents”, 1.6 million of whom use it regularly.  Dublin in Second Life and is a well established destination for live music and DJs – It occasionally makes  the top ten list of the most popular [...]

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Here is an article from today’s Irish Independent comparing Irish broadband speeds and cost with some of our European neighbours.
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Shane Ross blog entry and Sunday Independent Article 13/14thJan 2008
Senator Shane Ross writes in the Sunday Independent (13th January 2008) and on his blog of the desperate need to roll out cheaper and faster broadband across Ireland and of how in addition to this ‘e-government’ in Ireland is stillborn he also highlights that John Purcell [...]

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