Posted on Ozloop – A plague on all your houses I am advocating that Facebook be compelled to indicate that all these sites are not official. The major reason being that citizens need to be confident about engaging with sites active in the Gov 2.0 space. This latest twist from Facebook has the potential toRead… Read more »
Not my terminology, but a term used by a citizen when posting to the AGIMO blog in Australia. You might want to check out Medeleine Kingston’s (Citizen stakeholder) comments on the AGIMO blog. The question running through my mind is what should be done to attract citizens to Gov 2.0 and support and practices needRead… Read more »
Professor Roberto Fragale Filho of Universidade Federal Fluminense Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia e Direito and Fundação Getúlio Vargas will present a paper entitled Increasing Judicial Transparency: When Brazilian Court TV Officially Meets YouTube, at ECEG 2010: The 10th European Conference on eGovernment, to be held 17-18 June 2010, at the University of Limerick, inRead… Read more »
I just submitted a draft Wikipedia entry about GovLoop. I’ve made a couple of small submissions to the Internet Movie Database over the years, but this is my first go at Wikipedia, and I’ve very little confidence in the result. Anyone with Wikipedia experience is encouraged to scoot over there and make it better. TheRead… Read more »
Have you heard of B.C.’s Apps 4 Climate Action Contest? The contest challenges Canadian software developers to raise awareness and inspire action to reduce carbon pollution by using data in applications for the web and on mobile devices. But what if you aren’t a software developer? You can still help the cause by sharing yourRead… Read more »
Government and the private sector had a famous competion to see who could map the human genome. Now we have social media helping both with runnaway oil in the Gulf area. People are providing observations and also solution ideas for the crisis. For example, Gulfcoastspill.com has been setup to help. The site was developed withRead… Read more »
If you take a look at current television commercials or tech blogs, you’ll quickly find a great deal of attention focused on smartphones and the mobile applications (apps for short) that are built on top of them. While traditionally focused on the Blackberry-dominated business user niche, smartphones made the shift to the mainstream after Apple’sRead… Read more »
Using the Gulf oil spill to get clear about measuring Open Government Measure “Open Government”? Yes, but … I think that the success of the Obama Administration’s Open Government effort is critical, but I’m put off, even bored, by the measurement discussions to date. Imagine that you’ve got good reason to believe that your nephewRead… Read more »
I’m having a rush of wannabe bloggers launch this month. Here’s the process we’ve developed to get people cruising quickly. First we get past, “No you can’t hire someone to blog for you!” Next, start reading blogs. I recommend using a blog aggregator so the blogs you read don’t clutter your email inbox. I recommendRead… Read more »
Kristin Bockius, the SLG Relationship Marketing Manager in Microsoft’s Public Sector group was nice enough to take time out of her busy schedule to answer a few questions about Microsoft’s Gov2Social platform and other Government 2.0 initiatives taking place at Microsoft. Q. Microsoft has taken many positive steps on the Government 2.0 front, what isRead… Read more »