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Paul Johnston

London-based ex-civil servant now working for Cisco as head of the European public sector team within IBSG, Cisco's global strategic consulting arm. Launched and helped shape this site after wri... More about Paul Johnston

Russell Craig

I'm a former New Zealand public servant with a long background in e-government and public management. I've also spent time working in the NZ health system and at the OECD. Now that I'm with the ... More about Russell Craig

Tim Bonnemann

I'm the founder and CEO of Intellitics, an early-stage startup in the e-participation space. More about Tim Bonnemann

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Feature: Public Services 2.0 - An Open Declaration for Europe

Featured. Posting written by Paul Johnston 17 days ago. No comments yet.

It has been truly impressive to see the way that the Obama administration has galvanised the debate in the U.S. about how the Web can help improve government and public services more generally. It would be great to see a similar wave of activity in Europe to build on some of the great stuff that has already happened here (and where we may even have been a bit ahead of our American cousins at least some of the time!). In an attempt to contribute to that goal David Osimo and I have launched... Read more

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Tiago Peixoto edited Directory of Online Budget Simulators / Games 2 days ago.

Obviously it is not participatory budgeting, but this rather short list that I have compiled provides an idea of the variety of online initiatives type budget simulators / games. This might be useful to some of those interested in the use of ICTs in Participatory Budgeting experiences. If you know of other similar initiatives please let me know. (originally posted in Facebook's Participatory Budgeting group) Budget Simulator: http://www.budgetsimulator.com/ California Budget Challenge...
Paul Johnston edited a PDF file: Everything you always wanted to know about social media but were afraid to ask 3 days ago.

This is a great document that has been produced by a Cisco colleague while she was working for NetHope. It is aimed at NGOs but I think most public sector organisations would probably also learn a lot from it. Its also probably a great document to find out someone who wants to get to the bottom of what social media is about.
Paul Johnston uploaded a PDF file: Everything you always wanted to know about social media but were afraid to ask 3 days ago.

This is a great document that has been produced by a Cisco colleague while she was working for NetHope. It is aimed at NGOs but I think most public sector organisations would probably also learn a lot from it. Its also probably a great document to find out someone who wants to get to the bottom of what social media is about.
Russell Craig created Pragmatics of opening up government data 7 days ago.

A new group in NZ called Opengovt.org is making public data sets available free of charge. This article reporting on the initiative raises a couple of interesting questions about the cost associated with making government data more available. When I worked in NZ government I was involved in developing pricing policy for government info. From memory, the policy was that for non-personal government data that had already been collected and used for its original purpose, the price to any ...
Jefrazie created Can Governments Till the Fields of Innovation? 12 days ago.

I read my colleague, Martin Stewart Weeks, interesting work on Governing at the Edge...I thought this NY Times article added additional insights. Can Governments Till the Fields of Innovation? By STEVE LOHR INNOVATION — the tricky, many-step process by which ideas become products and services — has typically been seen, studied and celebrated at the micro level, as a pursuit for entrepreneurs and clever companies. But governments are increasingly wading int...

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