Rialtas.net – Government 2.0

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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The IPA (Institute of Public Administration- Ireland) Is running a one day seminar in Dublin on 24th October. The Speakers are David Osimo, Dr Paul Hodgkin, Dr James Munro, Derek Chambers ,Kieran Lenihan and myself. Further details and the agenda are listed below. This seminar seeks to: • Give participants a clearer understanding of the [...]

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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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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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A few months ago Google announced that they were testing a new product called Knol. Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects. Yesterday, they made Knol available to everyone. The web contains vast amounts of information, but not everything worth knowing is on the web. An enormous [...]

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From Federaltimes.com article By Elise Castelli  This Federal Times Article describes how the US EPA, in trying to better share information with the public, industry, the media and its own employees, took an ‘unusual’ tack: It set up a Web site and asked for ideas from those who rely on EPA’s data in their work [...]

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I came across a blog entry (in Federal Computer Week) in the US covering another example of a wiki being  used as part of a public consultative process. Officials from the US Environmental Protection Agency used a wiki to consult with citizens in Puget Sound. The ‘Puget Sound Information Challenge’ wiki was launched at a [...]

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We are now looking at Evan Miller’s Google Map Extension for Mediawiki as a solution for the mapping element of the public consultation project. Essentially we want visitors to be able to mark a point on a map and add a comment, this extension is pretty close to what we need, however at the moment [...]

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