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10 sites that take online govt to a new level

last updated 7 months ago, 0 Comments

My colleague Norm drew my attention to an interesting article with the above title that I have just got round to reading. I think it does show the progress that the public sector has made in grasping the opportunities of the Web including a certain amount of web 2.0. The list gives a good indication of the range of things being done and while I am sure there are plenty of static, uninspiring websites out there, it does show that ideas are being put into practice. I think what this sort of lis...

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Carolyn

Twitter for emergency evacuations

last updated 10 months ago, 0 Comments

Mississippi to Twitter for Upcoming Hurricane Season The Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) will use the social networking site Twitter to provide traffic information for evacuation routes during the upcoming hurricane season. MDOT has created separate Twitter feeds with route-specific traffic information for evacuees traveling on six different interstate highways. Evacuees will be able to receive real-time information via cell phone text messages regarding fuel ...

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Paul Johnston

O'Reilly on Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing

last updated 10 months ago, 0 Comments

Tim 0'Reilly seems a deeply thoughtful guy to me, so when I came across a post by him on Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing, I of course loved it. http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/10/web-20-and-cloud-computing.html#definitions I like his definitions of the three different types of cloud computing and his suggestion that the next IT giant will be the company that creates a service that best harnesses network effects to get better the more people use it. Its not very clear (to me!) quite what h...

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ChrisCook

Peer to Peer Finance

last updated 10 months ago, 1 Comment

The Carnegie Institute published this article re Peer to Peer Finance http://www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/innovations/data/000085 A more comprehensive piece is up on Michel Bauwens' P2P Foundation blog http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/an-open-capital-framework-as-a-solution-to-the-financial-meltdown/2009/02/27 and also here with diagram http://www.metamute.org/en/beyond_public_and_private Beyond Public and Private “21st Century problems cannot be fixed by 20th Century s...

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njacknis

LittleSis -- The Sousveillance Website

last updated 10 months ago, 0 Comments

Relatively new and still evolving, LittleSis has already garnered some publicity in the last couple of months. The website is http://littlesis.org/. It describes itself as "an involuntary facebook of powerful Americans, collaboratively edited and maintained by people like you." The creators go on to explain: "It's easier than ever to spot the symptoms of corruption and cronyism in our political process. Ordinary Americans have never felt more shut out from all levels of gov...

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Peter Scharf

Web 2.0 Education

last updated 10 months ago, 2 Comments

CISCO has an enormous opportunity in innovating in curriculum using Web 2.0 technology to enhance inquiry learning by students. This potential in my view is largely un-tapped. The United States has fallen into a knowledge telling mode of learning in its No Child Left Behind educational strategy, with the result being that many children may find it hard to compete in the emerging cognition based knowledge economy. Creating a cadre of teacher users who will conduct inquiry learning an...

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njacknis

MuniGov 2.0

last updated 10 months ago, 1 Comment

Take at look at https://sites.google.com/site/munigov20/ is a coalition of local/municipal governments focused on exploring the use and principles of Web 2.0 in an effort to improve citizen services and communication via technology. We have created this site and its accompanying documents as resources, best practices and the start of a community of like-minded peers who have a common interest in the concepts of 2.0 as they could and do apply to local government. The pages of this site are de...

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Paul Johnston

Reflections on a Nobel Journey

last updated 10 months ago, 1 Comment

Usually we see learning as moving from ignorance and uncertainty to knowledge and certainty, but sometimes the movement seems more in the opposite direction. One of the biggest gains for me from the recent Public Services Summit that Cisco hosted in Stockholm and Oslo was to raise questions and re-open issues. I have no doubt that we are at the start of a great period of change, but the difficult part is sorting out hype and dreams from the trends that will bring real change. Just when I thou...

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Paul Johnston

Web 2.0 and the Public Sector

last updated 10 months ago, 1 Comment

This is the version of the Government 2.0 paper that we used at the Public Services Summit in December. Its a slimmed down and improved version of the original draft. We plan to do a final version early in 2009. At the event the strongest push back was on transparency where there was a strong sense that the need for confidential advice put major limits on what could be achieved - I am not sure I buy that, but lets leave that to another day! Another interesting bit of feedback was the suggesti...

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Willi Kaczorowski

Web 2.0 for German local government

last updated 10 months ago, 0 Comments

Slowly but steadily the German public sector is embracing Web 2.0. A new book has been published by the "Innovators Club" (Driver: German National Association for Cities and Towns). Its called "Web 2.0 for local government" (Web 2.0 für Kommunen und Kommunalpoliitk). It features insights in using Web 2.0 technologies and social networks in particuar as a new way for local politicians to engage better with citizens. One article (chapter 4.3) deals with Cisco's extensive use of Web 2....

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Willi Kaczorowski

New German Bitkom White Paper on Web 2.0

last updated 10 months ago, 0 Comments

Bitkom, the German national industry association for ICT, has recently published a new white paper on "Web 2.0 and Public Sector". It focuses on basic principles, advantages and 20 national and international examples of Web 2.0 usage in the Public Sector. You'll find the link here: http://www.bitkom.org/de/publikationen/38337_55117.aspx

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Karine

France embraces Web 2.0

last updated 10 months ago, 0 Comments

http://www.france2025.fr/xwiki/bin/view/France2025/ a truly web 2.0 government experience where the French secretary of state for prospective and digital strategy asks for the citizens' advice about what policies would better help France to face the challenges of the next 15 years. IBSG helped with the conception and some of the material on the website.

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Russell Craig

More good stuff from NZ

last updated 10 months ago, 0 Comments

A couple of interesting blog entries from old colleagues downunder. First, this piece called Networked Citizens by Jason Ryan on the excellent NPSC blog looking at questions around government agencies allowing staff to use social networking tools. Second, this piece called Social networking, government social networking, or non-government government social networking by Matt Lane on the State Services Commission's In Devleopment blog pondering what the best approach to creating a social net...

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Paul Johnston

New UK Public Sector Group blog

last updated 10 months ago, 0 Comments

Again with thanks to Dave just come across a new UK public sector blog which shows how blogging is not just for ministers and leaders but can be used right across an organisations. Congratulations to the UK's Department for International Development for this new site - http://blogs.dfid.gov.uk/

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Paul Johnston

Ning Diabetes Community

last updated 10 months ago, 0 Comments

Great site that Dave Briggs alerted me to. It is a Ning-based site that brings together people who have diabetes and it shows how lively such groups can be when they have a strong bond. http://tudiabetes.com/ The public sector should definitely be encouraging and linking to such groups.

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msweeks

NZ experiments with Web 2.0

last updated 10 months ago, 0 Comments

http://www.e.govt.nz/resources/research/progress/agency-initiatives/chapter6.html "Agencies are recognising that the social and community dimension of these tools enhances their ability to involve and engage people more directly. They are being used to enable people to participate in proposing and shaping policies and laws, and to reach different and broader constituencies. People are providing feedback on programmes and services, and in some instances are beginning to influence service des...

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Anne

French Government launches digital conversations

last updated 10 months ago, 2 Comments

the French Government recently launched an interactive / Web 2.0 platform in order to energize the debate around its new digital strategy: http://assisesdunumerique.fr/forum/; run by Minister Besson, responsible for Digital Society, the website incorporates wikis, forum, videos, likely to stimulate ideas beyond traditional public sector-based thought and involves representatives from various horizons (civil society, private sector, experts...)

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Paul Johnston

UK local govt Web 2.0 experiments

last updated about 1 year ago, 0 Comments

Very useful site bringing together (on a wiki) all the things UK local authorities are doing in terms of using Web 2.0 to reach out to citizens: http://localgov.pbwiki.com/ .

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msweeks

One Machine to rule them alll

last updated 10 months ago, 2 Comments

Another muse from Kevin Kelly... http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2008/st_infoporn_1607 "Never mind Web 3.0: The next stage in technological evolution is a single worldwide computer. Collectively, we are already assembling this megacomputer from our billions of Net-connected PCs, cell phones, PDAs, and the like. As an increasing number and variety of devices are lashed to one another via the Internet and other communication systems, they form the components of what we might call the ...

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Paul Johnston

I am a Civil Servant

last updated 10 months ago, 2 Comments

Well, actually I was a civil servant, but this is the title of a set of principles for online participation the UK Transformational Government minister Tom Watson has just published. Writing some clear simple principles that will give civil servants the confidence to participate on the web in the right way is a really positive move. To the outsider it may seem a straightforward task, but it is easy to imagine the internal obstacles this project must have run into (from the lawyers of course, ...

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Diogo Vasconcelos

OneWorld: web 2.0 to promote sustainability

last updated 10 months ago, 1 Comment

I was delighted to meet Peter Amstrong and his lovely wife Anuradha on the Social Innovation Congress. They are two amazing examples of social entrepreneurs. Peter and Anuradha are the founders of OneWorld, a cutting edge in harnessing media technology to benefit people who need it most. Peter was a vibrant speaker on the panel I chaired. He explained how OneWorld leverages media innovatively for a fair and sustainable world. If you want to read what people around the world say about their ...

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msweeks

Free at last? Maybe not...

last updated about 1 year ago, 0 Comments

The quote below is from an article by Seth Finkelstein that I read today in the Sydney Morning Herald. Every time my romantic inner self is predisposed to celebrate the proliferating and apparently unstoppable freedom of the Internet and the new power of the participative web, I read statements like this. The real world is unlikely to be be as untramelled as we might like to hope... "It's sometimes suggested that we are entering a new internet era with blogs and syndication feeds and massi...

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msweeks

Look what God has wrought - the rise and rise of government blogging

last updated 10 months ago, 1 Comment

Thanks for friend and NSW Government colleague Ken Dray for pointing out this great piece from the US about the state of the official federal government blogopshere - http://www.fcw.com/print/22_13/management/152465-1.html?topic=management. It's worth a read...some great insights from those inside government who are pioneering the use of blogs not just as yet another channel to reinforce the dismal one-way conversation that so often passes for 'communications' and 'collaboration' in governm...

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msweeks

You can’t live your whole life on the Internet...

last updated 10 months ago, 0 Comments

Stephen Coleman gave a great interview to Australian youth site Vibewire as part of the eFestival of Ideas which is on this week, specifically on the eParticipation forum. There are two parts to what turns out to be a great interview, in which Stephen reinforces his position as one of the most thoughtful, pragmatic and insightful analysts of the impact of the Internet and the 'hyperconnected' world on politics and democracy. Have a listen...and while you're there, leave a couple of comments...

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msweeks

eFestival of Ideas

last updated 10 months ago, 4 Comments

A week-long eFestival of Ideas is currently on hosted by Sydney-based youth organisation Vibewire. I'm contributing to a forum on "eParticipation: Fad or Future", which Cisco is sponsoring. Come and have a look at the debate and join in. http://www.vibewire.net/forum/view_topic?topic_id=86 One of the other guest contributors, Mark Pesce, had this to say in a recent blog. It will give you a flavour for the debate we're enjoying: "The institution finds itself caught in a paradox: aggregat...

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msweeks

2,761,832 - is this a totally different game?

last updated about 1 year ago, 0 Comments

More evidence from the front line of the world of online politics that tests our views about whether we are witnessing the birth of a genuine, disruptive transformation of the way we play the game of politics and government, or whether we are witnessing nothing of the sort.This is how PoliticsOnline reported the phenomenon of Barack Obama's 'Wright' speech which was posted on YouTube: "Barack Obama's 37 minute-long speech has skyrocketed to the 51st most viewed video of all time on YouTube. ...

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Paul Johnston

The Realism of the Web

last updated about 1 year ago, 0 Comments

There have been quite a few posts on this blog about the Public Services Summit last December, but for me the highlight of the event was David Weinberger’s inspirational presentation The Realism of the Web. How can you not love a guy who begins his talk by saying that he does not think the web has been hyped enough? It’s a fantastic presentation and captures some really important things about how the Web opens up new possibilities and changes the way we need to think about things. David focu...

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msweeks

eFestival of Ideas

last updated 10 months ago, 0 Comments

Cisco is sponsoring one of the discussions in a week-long "eFestival of Ideas" being hosted by Sydney-based Vibewire. I am a guest controbutor - come and join in the conversation if you have a moment...http://www.vibewire.net/forum/view_topic?topic_id=86. One of the other guests contributors is Mark Pesce. This extract from his blog is worth a bit of thinking time in its own right:

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