Government 2.0

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• Australian Government 2.0 Taskforce releases report on government transparency

  
  JoeTrippi.com — Authority: 423
  Earlier this week, the Australian Government 2.0 Taskforce issued a very interesting report on opening up government to increase transparency and deepen democratic participation. They found Australia is a bit behind the US and UK but I think we all have a ways to go. From a column in Financial Review : The ...
  15 hours ago

• British Flavor of Government 2.0: Few Gold Nuggets Lost in Legacy

  
  Andrea DiMaio — Authority: 526
  This has been quite a week, with US, Australian and British governments issuing their reports and directives on government 2.0. As usual, the longest and most comprehensive report comes from the UK, with its “ Putting the Frontline First: smarter government ”, as a sequel to the impressive Digital Britain report ...
  1 day ago

• Obama directive to agencies: "open up".. like this!

  
  Open and Shut — Authority: 132
  While we mull over the draft report from the Federal Governments Gov 2.0 Task Force before submissions close next Wednesday, President Obama has upped the ante on open government, issuing this Directive to all US Federal agencies. A few highlights. Each agency is to: Publish before the end of January at ...
  1 day ago

• US Open Government Directive is Disappointing

  
  Andrea DiMaio — Authority: 526
  Earlier today, the US federal government issued the long-awaited Open Government Directive , as requested in an executive memo issued in January by President Obama. The directive covers the three principles of transparency, participation and collaboration set out in the executive memo, and outlines a series of ...
  1 day ago

• Wrapping Up

  
  The Third Bit — Authority: 530
  On the same day that the New York Times ran an article about open data and Government 2.0 , the graduate and undergraduate students in this term’s consulting course did their final presentations. On deck were: Managing Twitter Conversations : Tyler Lu, Kevin Regan, Jasper Snoek, and Danny Tarlow Finding ...
  2 days ago

• Government 2.0 Draft Report

  
  Net Traveller — Authority: 138
  The Government 2.0 Taskforce has released "Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0": draft report for comment (7 December 2009). Confusingly the report is released in two HTML versions (described as "HTML" and "Online") as well as Microsoft Word (1882k) and PDF (1138k, 159 A4 pages). The report is an unfortunate ...
  2 days ago

• Recent DoD Guidance on Open Source Software might be a first step in breaking the cycle of failed software reuse policies

  
  On CollabNet — Authority: 111
  The recent guidance from the Department of Defense (DoD) issued by Deputy CIO David Wennergren (Oct. 29th) is certainly a milestone for open source software.  It states that the DoD should consider open source software on equal footing with commercial software offerings.    While this in itself is an important ...
  2 days ago

• Gruen says "what do you think so far?"

  
  Open and Shut — Authority: 132
  The Federal Governments Gov 2.0 Task Force with Nicholas Gruen in the chair has not been your usual run of the mill exercise with blogging, competitions, and mashups following release of its discussion paper on issues relevant to promoting government openness and public engagement.Nearing the end of year deadline ...
  3 days ago

• Technology is not the thing

  
  DavePress — Authority: 492
  Last week I spoke at the Online Information conference. It was a session about Twitter , where Karen Blakeman did a great job explaining the whole thing, and how organisations can make use of it. Then I stepped up and told a few jokes about government is – and should be – using Twitter. Here’s the slides, ...
  3 days ago

• Balancing the Risks of Open Government

  
  Andrea DiMaio — Authority: 526
  After attending the Gartner Symposium in Sydney, I have read a number of press articles that make reference to some of the topics I covered there. An article on Computerworld captured my point about the need of a conscious loss of control to make government 2.0 initiatives successful. Another article on ...
  3 days ago

• Can we build the perfect citizen?

  
  Rialtas.net - Government 2.0 — Authority: 92
  Interesting article by FRANK DILLON in this weeks Irish Times Innovation Magazine. The Perfect Citizen The role of the citizen in creating a new Ireland is an important one. What foundations, skills and moral attributes should the perfect citizen have?… …Perhaps its time to look at what was once viewed as ...
  5 days ago

• Government 2.0: Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t

  
  Andrea DiMaio — Authority: 526
  While I keep reading enthusiastic tweets from all the government 2.0 believers that jump from event to event across North America to praise a new dawn coming, I feel compelled to highlight some of the early signals that this is going to be a much rougher ride that many barcampers actually think. In earlier posts (see ...
  6 days ago

• Getting started in the social web: Government 2.0

  
  DavePress — Authority: 492
  Some interesting slides from a Canadian perspective of this whole government and the internet thing, from Tamera Kremer . Getting started in the social web: Government 2.0 View more presentations from Tamera Kremer . Found via Craig Thomler ’s excellent eGov AU blog . Possibly related posts: ...
  1 week ago

• A Future-Proof Government IT Strategy Must Challenge the Common Wisdom

  
  Andrea DiMaio — Authority: 526
  This morning I had a conversation with a client from a provincial government who is dealing with a quite complex but interesting planning challenge. He is supposed to develop an IT strategy that meets the requirements of the current national e-government plan, while taking into account a longer term view, stretching ...
  1 week ago

• URL Shorteners: New Fabric of Society or Hidden Threat?

  
  Andrea DiMaio — Authority: 526
  Yesterday I posted about how government 2.0 may be vulnerable to changes in social media platforms and to the fate of many of the tools that make online social networks work. One of these tools, made increasingly important by the success of Twitter and other microblogging platforms, is URL shorteners. These are web ...
  1 week ago

• Emergency 2.0 Australia

  
  Net Traveller — Authority: 138
  Emergency 2.0 Australia, is part of the Australian Government 2.0 Taskforce looking at how Social Media can assist in Emergency Management. In my view Social Networking, the Internet and web, have a useful role in emergency communications. However, disaster management using IT needs to be carefully planned and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gov 2.0: Taking a Look Back at 2009

  
  Social Media Strategery — Authority: 104
  I didn’t write a “year in review” post last year at this time, primarily because by the time I got around to it, everyone else had written theirs and I didn’t have much else to add. This year, however, I thought I’d get a head start by writing my post a little earlier. I wanted to take this opportunity to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Government 2.0 and the Expiry Date of Social Networks

  
  Andrea DiMaio — Authority: 526
  A very good article by Mike Elgan ( The Wikipedia Exodus Is the Least of Our Worries ) and already commented by my colleague Daryl Plummer , raises a few excellent points for those who are strategizing about government 2.0 and the whole issue of citizen engagement. Elgan flags the decreasing number of editors on ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is Open Government Data the New Spam?

  
  Andrea DiMaio — Authority: 526
  My last meeting of the day was, as it often happens, the best. I met a fairly senior official in a state government who is tasked with web site consolidation, information management and engagement strategy. Quite a daunting task, but the person has clear ideas and looks determined, both useful qualities to be up to ...
  2 weeks ago

• A-Space Past and Future

  
  Shepherd's Pi — Authority: 471
  This week marks the second anniversary of the first live internal demo of the intelligence community’s A-Space project, groundbreaking for the IC in its goal of collaborative use of social media across agency lines. Somewhere in Maryland, a remarkable government employee and friend named Mike Wertheimer should ...
  2 weeks ago

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