Rialtas.net – Government 2.0

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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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..
he discusses combining [...]

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Government 2010 will examine how next generation government is set to change in the light of social, media and technology change. The conference is a video streamed conference,which  will be broadcast live on the web from London.
Keynote speakers include Peter Kellner (YouGov); Adam Afriyie MP (Shadow Minister, Innovation); Iain Dale (Political Blogger and Broadcaster); Tom [...]

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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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Via Publictechnology.net According to a recent Ofcom survey Only 55 per cent of UK citizens has used a government or council website
Just half of the UK population has used the internet in the last year to access information about government or local council services or completed a government form or process online, according to Ofcom [...]

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A new report launched last week by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) finds that HR is failing to take advantage of many opportunities presented by Web 2.0 technology. (onrec.com)
Web 2.0 and Human Resource Management: ‘Groundswell’ or hype?, which aims to inform on the latest thinking as well as outline good practice strategy [...]

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The UK Government is currently advertising for a new position to lead “digital engagement” with the public. (via Macworld)
The position advertised offers the prospect of earning between £81,600 and £160,000 per year and reports directly to the minister for digital engagement, Tom Watson, and the permanent secretary for government communications, Matt Tee.
The right candidate would [...]

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Tom Steinberg (MySociety) was interviewed by Michael Cross for the Guardian Newspaper, the article was published on 23rd October 2008.
Fixmystreet already enables anyone with a browser to report potholes, fly-tipping and other nuisances without needing to know which public authority is responsible for them. All you have to do is click on a map and [...]

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Came across this text ‘Network Citizens: Power and Responsibility at Work‘ via Paul Glazowski at Mashable.com

Here is an excerpt from the foreword by Robert Ainger, Corporate Director, Orange Business
One of the key findings within this research is the tension that distinctions between purely personal and professional life are becoming increasingly blurred and that this is [...]

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A free seminar organised by the Hansard Society to discuss eDemocracy in Scotland.

Speakers will be Dr Laura Miller (Senior Researcher, eDemocracy Programme, Hansard Society), Navraj Singh Ghaleigh (Lecturer in Public Law, University of Edinburgh), Aileen Campbell MSP (Scottish National Party MSP for South of Scotland), Fergus Cochrane (Clerk to the Public Petitions Committee, Scottish Parliament).
“There [...]

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