Rialtas.net – Government 2.0

Brian Cowen is the current Taoiseach of Ireland (pronounced tea-shock – this is the position of head of government) Cowen addresses the nation in a series of new videos , addressing seven questions posed by members of the public (selected from several thousand submissions). The videos are embedded in the government’s party website www.fiannafail.ie  and [...]

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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 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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I came across this excellent short talk by Clay Shirky author of  “Here comes everybody“, speaking at the Web 2.0 Expo (22-25 April 2008) about what he terms  ‘the cognitive surplus’ that television (in his opinion mostly sit-coms) has been masking for the past 60 years. Here is an excerpt: “I was recently reminded of [...]

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Apologies for the hiatus, I have been completing my  MSC dissertation (on Web 2.0 and Knowledge Management) but I’m back on the air..   I see the UK Civil Service have published some ‘Principles for online Participation’   Here also is a common craft video explaining Social Media in plain english.. its very good… (thanks [...]

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The Joint Committee on Broadcasting and Parliamentary Information has arranged Webcasting of Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann. Live and archive Webcasting may only be viewed in accordance with the Rules of Coverage. The Webcast Windows Media Player service is available on the Internet, and on educational and research networks, provided in association with HEAnet. The [...]

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‘EUtube’, the European Commission’s new channel on YouTube, was officially launched on 29 June 2007. By offering an additional way of communicating Europe to its citizens, EUtube indicates that some of the European Institutions are starting to keep pace with some of the newer developments on the web. EUtube is another example of the use [...]

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Oxford Internet Institute : Webcast, University of Oxford. For over a decade UK government has been busy moving online. This has made some progress, for example in driver and vehicle licensing, but is yet to take off in terms of usage in the way of some spectacular contemporary Internet examples like Facebook and iTunes. Is [...]

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Speaking of the OECD Review of the Irish Civil Service …. …reminded me of another OECD related resource… On October 2007, in Ottawa, Canada, the first international policy forum on the participative web brought together policy makers, academics, business executives and a wide range of civil society to address these questions: What does the future [...]

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