Welcome to The Connected Republic website

theconnectedrepublic.org is a community space, developed by Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group. The aim is to create a space where people with ideas can meet, share their thinking and link up with each other. The site is open to anyone who wants to get involved. We want this to be a user-led, user-dominated space, so do please contribute. There are many ways you can do so:

On the Forums page you can start a new discussion or reply to any previous posts;
On the Blog page you can comment on entries from our team of bloggers;
On the Bookmarks page you can share interesting sites via our del.icio.us account

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May 2008 Update

This month we have finally manage to start using our wiki facility where we have launched a project on defining Government 2.0. Do have a look at the debate and create an account on the wiki so that you can contribute to it. This is an experiment from our point of view and if you have feedback or other ideas on how we might use the wiki facility, please make your views heard via the Feedback Forum. Otherwise, we have well and truly smashed the 100 barrier in terms of registered members (107 members and counting). So the community is there (particularly given that quite a lot of people are lurking invisibly!) and we are getting some interesting and very well-informed responses in a wide range of areas. Finally, after 35 posts we have had no choice but to accept the inevitable and make Jeff Frazier our contributor of the month. Well done, Jeff, keep it up.

Latest blog entries

• I am a Civil Servant on June 25th, 2008 by pauljohn
• Ministerially-led, customer-driven Government Departments on June 12th, 2008 by pauljohn
• One-to-One Computing: Is this the Best Option for Learners? on June 10th, 2008 by michelle-selinger
• The bees and the trees: Geoff Mulgan's ten thesis on social innovation on June 7th, 2008 by diogo-vasconcelos
• Virtual Bali - a window on the UN Climate Negotiations for People Worldwide on June 7th, 2008 by diogo-vasconcelos