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 [...]
Can Social, Participatory Gov 2.0 Work?
May 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Collaboration, Government 2.0, Government as Platform, Mashups, USA, Web 2.0, Wisdom of Crowds, e-Democracy, e-government
Tags: Collaboration·e-Democracy·e-government·Government 2.0·Government as Platform·Mashups·transparency·Trust·USA·Web 2.0·Wisdom of Crowds
Data.gov launched – another step towards Government 2.0
May 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Collaboration, Government 2.0, Government Policy, Government as Platform, Mashups, Trust, USA, Web 2.0, e-Democracy, e-government, transparency
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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Obama’s Groundbreaking use of the Semantic Web
March 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Government 2.0, Government as Platform, Mashups, Semantic Web, Trust, USA, Web 2.0, e-Democracy, transparency
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 [...]
Tags: e-Democracy·Government 2.0·Government as Platform·Mashups·Semantic Web·transparency·Trust·USA·Web 2.0
Government 2.0 and Beyond…Harnessing Collective Intelligence
September 19th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Collaboration, Event, Government 2.0, Government Policy, Government as Platform, Knowledge Management, Local Government, Net-Gen, Politics, Security, Society, Trust, USA, Video, Virtual Worlds, Web 2.0, e-Democracy, e-government, transparency
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 [...]
Tags: ·Collaboration·e-Democracy·e-government·Event·Government 2.0·Government as Platform·Government Policy·Knowledge Management·Local Government·Mashups·Net-Gen·Politics·Security·Society·transparency·Trust·USA·Video·Virtual Worlds·Web 2.0
Public sector says no to web 2.0 (Gov’t CIOs still scared of Facebook)
September 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Government 2.0, Government Policy, Local Government, Mashups, UK, Web 2.0
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 resisting user [...]
Tags: Government 2.0·Government Policy·Local Government·Mashups·UK·Web 2.0
Useful List of Web 2.0 Business Apps from Read Write Web
September 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Collaboration, Mashups, Net-Gen, Resources, Web 2.0
From RRW
If you were interviewing someone for a position with your company and they admitted that they didn’t know anything about the new trends and innovations taking place in their field, what would you think? Likely, what you would think is “next candidate, please.” In today’s business world, job-seekers are expected to stay current with [...]
Tags: Collaboration·Mashups·Net-Gen·Resources·Web 2.0
Secure Web 2.0 Mashups possible with new software from IBM who Contributes it to the OpenAjax Alliance.
March 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Mashups, Open Source, Software, Web 2.0
IBM announced new technology to secure “mashups,” web applications that pull information from multiple sources, such as Web sites, enterprise databases or emails, to create one unified view. Mashups are attractive for business use, as they allow non-technical users to gain insight on complex situations in minutes, but as with all Web-based initiatives, security has [...]
Tags: Mashups·Open Source·Software·Web 2.0
Let my data go! the case for transparent government
January 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Blog, Government 2.0, Government as Platform, Mashups, Net-Gen, Trust, USA, transparency
David Stephenson has published the content of a speech he gave to New Internet Web 2.0 conference on November 1, 2007
David outlines the possibilities more transparent government offers to the public and to business and gives some very good examples of several US agencies that have opened their data to the public using well documented [...]
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Ireland’s move on borehole data shows the way to Ordnance Survey
January 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Government as Platform, Ireland, Mashups, Software, Standards
From Charles Arthur also in the Guardian (2 November 2007)
The Irish government has dipped a toe into the free data market, making a group of datasets for boreholes around the country available online so that professional users – in particular those engaging in major construction or infrastructure planning – will be able to visualise subterranean [...]
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Tara Hunt on Government 2.0 at GOVIS in New Zealand.
January 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Government 2.0, Government as Platform, Mashups, NZ, Philosophy, Politics, Resources, Standards, Trust, Video, WIKIS, Web 2.0, transparency
Video of Tara Hunt Presenting her talk on Government 2.0 “Architecting for Collaboration” (May 26th 2007) to some New Zealand Government officials and staff at GOVIS and here also are the accompanying slides (hosted on slideshare.net). Its an excellent and inspiring presentation on Government as a platform, discussing 2.0 technologies and their role in enabling [...]
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