Rialtas.net – Government 2.0

http://lap.kilkennycoco.ie/ At Kilkenny County Council we have just launched a consultative website for the forward planning department. The new website allows members of the public to comment on and to make submissions to the Local Area Plan. These comments and submissions are considered by the Council in the formulation of the Local Area Plans. We [...]

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Mark Elliott whose company http://collabforge.com consulted for and built the http://futuremelbourne.com.au planning wiki  in Melbourne was recently interviewed by Howard Rheingold. During the interview Mark speaks about the benefits of using a wiki for Civic Planning in general and of the experience of running the Melbourne wiki project. See also an earlier post on Mark’s PhD Disseration on  Stigmergic Collaboration http://www.rialtas.net/blog/2008/02/21/stigmergic-collaboration/#more-63 [...]

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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 [...]

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 I  met Krishna De at the recent eGovernment Symposium held in Dublin. We did not get a chance to talk properly at the event but Krishna interviewed me about the Kilkenny County Council Wiki project over Skype the following day. The Interview is online as part of Krishna’s hour long podcast at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/PodcampIreland You can [...]

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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 [...]

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Interesting Aricle by Nick Heath on Silicon.com on some UK Public Sector Organisations Rejection of Web 2.0 Technologies Blinkered public sector thinking that blames sites such as Facebook for office time wasting is stunting the take up of web 2.0 in government, according to an association for IT professionals. “Laggards” in local government are doggedly [...]

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Kilkenny County Council has just released a new Wiki on which it invites collaboration with members of the public on the development of Local Area Plans for townlands in Kilkenny. (I am an IS project manager for Kilkenny County Council and this wiki is one of my current projects.) We believe that this project represents [...]

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The Connected Rebublic is a community website, developed by Cisco’s Internet Business Solutions Group. The aim is to create a space where people with ideas can meet, share their thinking and link up with each other. The site is open to anyone who wants to get involved. There are a number of very interesting presentations [...]

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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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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. [...]

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